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Hartford, Connecticut
The Last Men of the Revolution - Edward Everett Letter, First Leaf
Edward Everett · Boston, Massachusetts
- Date
- 14 January 1865
- Medium
- Illustrated book
- Subject
- Portrait
- Origin
- Boston, Massachusetts
Bound into this copy is an autograph letter from the orator and statesman Edward Everett to the book's Hartford publishers. Writing from Boston, Everett offers brief thoughts on the biographies, explaining that he has been very ill. The letter was composed on January 14, 1865, the day before his death, making it one of his final communications and lending this association copy a distinct historical gravity.