[Rarebooks] FS: Edward Everett Letter with free frank

[Charles Agvent]

EVERETT, Edward. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). One-page letter to
the  Honorable John Davis, former governor of Massachusetts and United
States  senator  at  the date of this letter: 11 August  1848.  On  an
integral  sheet is Everett's SIGNATURE with a Cambridge postmark,  red
wax seal,  and a free frank in the form of a stamp of the word  "FREE"
with  "Free" written by Everett over that. Everett writes  regarding a
memorial  presented  to the Senate by Davis for his sister Mrs. A.  H.
Everett.  Edward  Everett--a  Unitarian minister, member of  both  the
United    States  Congress  and  Senate,   and  also  a  governor   of
Massachusetts--is  perhaps best known for his oratory powers. It is he
who  gave  the "other" address at Gettysburg on 19 November 1863.  The
next  day  he  wrote  Lincoln saying, "I should be  glad  if  I  could
flatter  myself  that I came as near the central idea of the  occasion
in  two  hours  as  you did in two  minutes."  Creases  from  folding;
otherwise Fine.                                                $350.00

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