[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED Oliver Wendell Holmes MECHANISM IN THOUGHT AND MORALS

[Charles Agvent]

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. MECHANISM IN THOUGHT AND MORALS. AN ADDRESS 
DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, JUNE 
29, 1870. WITH NOTES AND AFTERTHOUGHTS Inscribed to a former Speaker of 
the House. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1871. First Edition. First 
Printing in original purple cloth. BAL 8876: 1500 copies printed. One of 
a small number of copies with a correction in the author's hand on page 
23. In addition this copy is INSCRIBED "With the kind regards of" and 
SIGNED by the author to R. C. Winthrop, American orator and statesman, a 
descendant of Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop (1588-1649). 
Bookplate on front pastedown of noted collector Carroll Atwood Wilson. 
Typical chipping to spine tips; spine sunned but gilt still clear. Near 
Fine.

ROBERT CHARLES WINTHROP (1809-1894) graduated from Harvard in 1828, 
studied law with Daniel Webster, and in 1831 was admitted to the bar. He 
was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in1834-1840, 
for the last three years as speaker, and in 1840 was elected to the 
national House of Representatives as a Whig, serving from December 1840 
to 1850. He soon became prominent and was speaker of the Thirtieth 
Congress (1847-1849). On the resignation of Daniel Webster to become 
secretary of state, Winthrop was appointed to the Senate (July 1850) but 
was defeated in the Massachusetts legislature for the short term (Jan. 
30, 1851) and for the long term (April 24, 1851) by a coalition of 
Democrats and Free Soilers and served only until February 1851. In the 
same year he received a plurality of the votes cast for governor, but as 
the constitution required a majority vote, the election was thrown into 
the legislature, where he was defeated by the same coalition. 
Thereafter, he was never a candidate for political office. Among his 
noteworthy orations of a patriotic character were those delivered at 
Boston in 1876, at Yorktown in 1881, and in Washington on the completion 
of the Washington Monument in 1885. (#015367)        $1,000.00

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