[Rarebooks] FS: 1808 Fourth of July Oration in Boston by Andrew Ritchie

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

An Oration Pronounced July 4, 1808, at the request of the selectmen of 
the town of Boston, in Commemoration of the Anniversary of American 
Independence.

By Andrew Ritchie. Printed by russell & Cutler in 1808.

Ritchie was an 1802 Harvard graduate who went on to read law, and served 
for several years as a Boston selectman. He has been called “a tasteful 
and effective writer” (James Loring, The Hundred Boston Orators, 1852), 
and eventually married the daughter of a plantation owner in St. Croix 
and decamped from the cold winters of Boston for that more tropical 
locale.

Self-wraps. 5.5”x9”, 19 pages. Some minor soil, light wear. [43542]  
$100

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