EDWARD EVERETT, ORATIONS AND SPEECHES ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS 1836 + Autograph Letter Signed + Engraving

Edward Everett (1794-1865) Gov. of Massachusetts, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, Minister to Great Britain, greatest orator of his time, delivered the 2-hour main Gettysburg Oration after which President Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address in 1863. 

~Orations And Speeches On Various Occasions, Boston, 1836. 1st Edition. Large 8vo (9 3/4 x 6) 637 pages, top edge of pages unopened (uncut). Contains the complete text of Everett's principal orations from 1824 to 1835. Light foxing throughout this very old volume, some external edge wear but good and tight.  
~Inserted is a Signed Hand-written letter to Judge Russell regarding a donation at W. Talbot's fair and a request to add the enclosed to the receipts of Dora's grab basket, dated 3 June 1864. 
~Also inserted in an old engraving "The Library: Mr. Everett's residence, Boston."

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PROVENANCE NOTES: The book and the Everett letter are from my personal collection which I started accumulating in the 1970s.  Everything in my autograph collection was purchased from reputable sources such as East Coast Book Auctions, Harris Auction Galleries, Remember When Antiquities,  Richard J. Cohen, and Donald Dean of Discovery Gide. I also had a running  advertisement throughout the 1980s in PCM (Paper Collectors’ Marketplace)  through which I obtained a number of these. Nothing in this collection  was purchased through Ebay or any other online source. (This Everett material was from East Coast Book Auctions.)

Note also that virtually  everything was obtained before “COAs” became routine (which I have doubts about  anyway), so no such ‘certificate’ accompanied these items when I purchased  them. I do, however, stand behind any autograph material I offer for sale,  which comes with my personal money-back guarantee ensuring your complete  satisfaction.