AN ORATION DELIVERED AT THE CELEBRATION OF OUR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, JULY 4th 1816 [cover title]. A 25pp. manuscript draft of his speech, with ink and pencil corrections, signed by Lear on the manuscript title page. Accompanied by a request from the mayor of Washington, DC seeking a copy for publication; 2 autograph letters signed by Lear to his step-mother Fanny Lear; and 3 letters from Lear's widow and his daughter also to Fanny Lear.
(1815-ca.1842). Lear's 25pp. speech, approx. 4000 words, selfwraps with ms. title page, bound at left margin with a thin ribbon. Lear's prose celebrates the 40th anniversary of the founding of the United States, its Constitution and first President, but also speaks of the more recent events of the War of..... More