An Oration Delivered On Tuesday The Fourth Of July 1826 It Being The Fiftieth Anniversary Of

by Josiah Quincy

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Boston, MA : True and Greene, City Printers, 1826. First edition. 8vo. 30 pp. Stirring 50th anniversary address, given on the day that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died, their passing acknowledged in a note at the foot of pp. 5-6. Inscribed at the head of the title page “J. P. Thorndike, Esq. / with respects of / Josiah Quincy”; Quincy 1772-1864 served as Mayor of Boston, 1823-1829, and as President of Harvard, 1829-1845. American Imprints

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