[Rarebooks] FS: 1876 Robert Winthrop Speeches on Washington Monument & Ben Franklin

[Joslin Hall Books & Ephemera]

Washington, Bowdoin, and Franklin, as portrayed in Occasional Addresses

By Robert C. Winthrop. Published in Boston by Little, Brown and  
Company in 1876.

A series of addresses given by Winthrop, chief amongst them the  
dedication speech he gave as the Speaker of the House of  
Representatives at the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington  
Monument in 1848.  He notes in the Preface to this volume that the  
Monument still is not completed, and includes a nice lithograph  
showing the work that has been done (174 feet), and the work still to  
be done (they were going to 485 feet).  This is followed by four other  
short works on Washington.  There is also the speech he gave about  
James Bowdoin at Bowdoin College, and then a few speeches on Benjamin  
Franklin, the Boston Tea Party, and the Centennial Commemorations at  
Lexington and Bunker Hill in 1875.

Winthrop (1809-1894) was a very accomplished man, serving in the House  
of Representatives and eventually becoming Speaker before being  
appointed to Daniel Webster's Senate seat when Webster resigned.   
Although he had studied law in Webster's office early in his career,  
Winthrop had some difficulty filling the famous Union man's shoes in  
the Senate, and was evidently not quite enough of an antislavery  
firebrand for his Massachusetts' constituents, being defeated when he  
sought the seat on his own.  He retired from public office to become  
President of the Massachusetts Historical Society, a post he held for  
several decades.

Hardcover.  6"x9.5", 186 pages, lithographed frontispiece of the  
uncompleted Washington Monument; several folding facsimile plates;  
original green cloth with gilt spine titles. Ex-lodge library with  
bookplate and varnished spine with label; front endpaper badly  
damaged, but otherwise only minor soil and light wear.  $45, plus $3  
shipping.

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