[Rarebooks] FS: Lengthy ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT by Edward Everett at Amherst College

[Charles Agvent]

EVERETT, Edward. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT: AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE 
LITERARY SOCIETIES OF AMHERST COLLEGE, ON THE AFTERNOON PRECEDING 
COMMENCEMENT, 25TH AUGUST, 1835. n.p., [1835]. Stitched wraps (8" x 
9-3/4") consisting of a title and 65 pages bound together with a ribbon, 
all edges gilt. A lengthy, closely written MANUSCRIPT by Edward Everett, 
not signed though initialed after his instructions. An early oration 
from Edward Everett (1794-1865), Whig politician, U.S. Representative 
and Senator, sometime President of Harvard University, United States 
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Britain, and 
Governor of Massachusetts before being appointed United States Secretary 
of State. On the back of the title-page, Everett has penciled, "[The 
compositor will please not to cut nor tear this manuscript, but preserve 
it as clean as he can conveniently].... E.E." The compositor 
accomplished the required feat. The oration was published in Boston by 
Russell, Shattuck, & Williams in 1835. In this commencement address 
Everett discusses the extension of the means of education and the 
societal benefits of the general diffusion of knowledge to liberty, 
science, and virtue. Blank wrappers soiled, a few chips; internally Fine.

Edward Everett 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." (#019223) $3,500.00

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