Everett, Edward - [Als] Edward Everett to G.P. Putnam, on Publishing His Washington Irving Memorial Remarks

Boston, 1860. [2] pp. Bifolium. 5 x 7.5 inches. Dated June 21st, 1860 from Edward Everett (1794-1865) to G.P. Putnam (1814-1872), founder of G.P. Putnam's Sons publishing firm pertains to both the Washington Irving Memorial and the Commemoration speech, which Everett had delivered before the Massachusetts Historical Society in December of 1859. In full: "I have received the Prospectus of the Irving Memorial. If my remarks before the Massachusetts Historical Society are included in it, I hope they will be printed from the volume of their proceedings lately published p. 395. I furnished Rev. Dr. Osgood of your city with a corrected copy of my speech on the 3d of April last at the Irving Commemoration. I trust this copy will be followed in your volume. The contemporary news-paper Report was very inaccurate. I should like to have a copy in cloth with gilt edges." Edward Everett (1794 -1865) was statesman, pastor, educator, and orator from Massachusetts, who "moved back and forth between political and scholarly life with a facility uncommon in American society. His impressive array of public and private offices testifies to the importance then attached to the role of the orator. It is his speeches rather than his administrative or legislative actions that constitute Everett's true body of work. These orations have seemed grandiloquent and long-winded to later generations, but they reflect well the sensibility of their time. As cultural documents of nineteenth-century America, their importance is substantial" (ANB. article.0400352). Very good, creased, minor soiling and ink bleed though.