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Title

Select pieces &c.

Authors

• Smith, Frederick, 1773-1830

Call number

Ms. Codex 1626
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5810567
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5810567

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English, with 2 sections in German (f. 41r-49r, 78r-81r) and a few words of Latin (f. 12r)

Origin

Date

ca. 1792-1818

Place

Philadelphia?

Summary

Excerpts from orations, sermons, and other prose works of the 18th century and early 19th century, with a focus on political rhetoric. The first item is an oration, On the rise and progress of American independence, which has an explanatory note about intended use at commencement at the University of Pennsylvania. Other authors represented include William Pitt, Charles James Fox, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, all members of the British Parliament; and ministers John Daniel Gros and Samuel Stanhope Smith. A statement by Governor John Jordan Crittenden of Kentucky in 1850 (f. 52r-53r) and the last words of President Zachary Taylor (f. 81r), who died in 1850, may have been added by another hand.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (front flyleaf).
   

Extent

84 leaves : 160 x 100 mm. bound to 164 x 104 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 84; [i, 1-84] (f. 4r-10v, 54v-75r blank), modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Multiple leaves cut out after f. 76.

Support

Paper

Binding

Quarter leather over very worn marbled paper; Frederick Smith and a circle in wedges in ink on lower cover.

Script

Written in cursive script.

Provenance

• Possible former ownership inscriptions: Frederick L. Smith (f. 84v), Henry A. Smith (inside lower cover).
   
• Purchased, 1968.
   

Subjects topical

• Speeches, addresses, etc., English

Genres

• Codices
• Commonplace books
• Excerpts
• Orations
• Sermons
• Manuscripts, American--18th century
• Manuscripts, American--19th century
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, English--19th century

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