[Rarebooks] FS: Edward Everett is Dead (1865)

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“A Memorial of Edward Everett, from the City of Boston”

Published in Boston; Printed by Order of the City Council in 1865.

DISCUSSION: A complete account of the speeches, commemorations and funeral
of statesman and orator Edward Everett. Includes details of the funeral,
proceedings of the Legislature, Board of Trade, Massachusetts Historical
Society, Thursday Evening Club, American Antiquarian Society, Harvard
University, and many other groups of which he was a member or who wanted
to pay tribute to him.

"Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865) was an American
politician, educator, and polymath from Massachusetts. Everett, a Whig,
served as U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, the 15th Governor of
Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, and United States Secretary of
State. He also taught at Harvard University and served as its president.
Everett was one of the great American orators of the ante-bellum and Civil
War era. He is often remembered today as the featured orator at the
dedication ceremony of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1863, where he
spoke for over two hours—immediately before President Abraham Lincoln
delivered his famous, two-minute Gettysburg Address. For his part, Everett
was deeply impressed by the concise speech and wrote to Lincoln noting "I
should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the
central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes."

In the 1864 election, Everett campaigned extensively for Lincoln and the
"Union" Party, as the Republicans called themselves that year. He
exhausted himself in this effort, and died in Boston on January 15, 1865.
He is interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts."

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 7"x10.5", 315 pages, portrait frontispiece;
publisher's green pebbled cloth with gilt spine title.

CONDITION NOTES: Light wear, a little soil, some scattered foxing;
ex-Lodge library with bookplate and spine label, a few innocuous markings.

PRICE: $65-

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