[Rarebooks] FS: July 4 1861 Boston Massachusetts Oration

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

 From our new Fourth of July catalog
<http://www.joslinhall.com/Catalog380.pdf>

Parsons, Theophilus.  An Oration delivered on the Fourth of July, 1861, 
before the Municipal Authorities of the City of Boston.

Printed in Boston by J.E. Farwell & Co. in 1861.

Given just a short time after the South fired on Fort Sumter a large 
part of this speech is given over to ruminations on the current crisis 
and the larger question of what is the best form of government. An 
appendix gives the text of several additional speeches. “Theophilus 
Parsons [1797–1882] was Dane Professor of Law at Harvard from 1848 to 
1870. Parsons is remembered chiefly as the author of a series of useful 
legal treatises and some books in support of Swedenborgian doctrines. He 
also edited and published the Civil War letters of his daughter, Emily 
Elizabeth Parsons, a nurse and administrator of Benton Barracks military 
hospital in St. Louis, Mo.”.

Hardcover. 6”x9.25”, 59 pages. Embossed and gilt-stamped black cloth. 
Spine with slight chipping. Minor soil, front hinge cracked but tight.  
[43551]  $85

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