Title: An Address Delivered before the Literary Societies of Amherst College, on the Afternoon preceding Commencement, 25th August, 1835 Author: Everett, Edward Place: Amherst, MA Publisher: Date: 1835 Description: [2], 65 pp. Handwritten in ink in a plain paper notebook, 9¾x8, bound together with a ribbon, all edges gilt. Early oration from Edward Everett (1794-1865), Whig politician, U.S. Representative and Senator, sometime President of Harvard University, United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Britain, and Governor of Massachusetts before being appointed United States Secretary of State. On the back of the title-page, Everett has penciled "[The compositor will please not to cut nor tear this manuscript, but preserve it as clean as he can conveniently]... E.E." The compositor accomplished the required feat. The oration was published in Boston by Russell, Shattuck, & Williams in 1835. Accompanied by an A.L.s. from Everett to Lewis Shearer, 2 Feb. 1854, "When the abstract of the Census... is published, I shall be happy to send you a copy." Lot Amendments Condition: Blank wrappers soiled, a few chips; internally fine or nearly so. Item number: 202629
Title: An Address Delivered before the Literary Societies of Amherst College, on the Afternoon preceding Commencement, 25th August, 1835 Author: Everett, Edward Place: Amherst, MA Publisher: Date: 1835 Description: [2], 65 pp. Handwritten in ink in a plain paper notebook, 9¾x8, bound together with a ribbon, all edges gilt. Early oration from Edward Everett (1794-1865), Whig politician, U.S. Representative and Senator, sometime President of Harvard University, United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Britain, and Governor of Massachusetts before being appointed United States Secretary of State. On the back of the title-page, Everett has penciled "[The compositor will please not to cut nor tear this manuscript, but preserve it as clean as he can conveniently]... E.E." The compositor accomplished the required feat. The oration was published in Boston by Russell, Shattuck, & Williams in 1835. Accompanied by an A.L.s. from Everett to Lewis Shearer, 2 Feb. 1854, "When the abstract of the Census... is published, I shall be happy to send you a copy." Lot Amendments Condition: Blank wrappers soiled, a few chips; internally fine or nearly so. Item number: 202629
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