CIRCULAR. / EXPOSITION OF ANDOVER ACADEMY----No. 1.

Boston, [MA]: Henshaw's Press, 1851. Broadside. 25 x 19 cm. Printed on light blue paper. Beneath the title are 27 lines of negative, one could say viperous comments on the school and its Board of Instruction Moses l. Morse and wife. The last sentence proposes to publish a thousand copies of the Circular with added detail monthly. Signed in type PER ORDER OF THE CITIZENS OF ANDOVER. Andover, NH, July, 1851. Moses Leland Morse was a graduate of Bowdoin. In the History of Andover prepared by John Eastman he states that Morse was appointed July of 1849 and the school prospered, Morse resigned in August of 1851 a month after this circular. No mention is made of any problems leading to this. Our copy was mailed from Boston to a Josiah Philbrock of Deerfield, NH [his address on verso, with Boston postal round stamp]. OCLC lists a single copy at NH Historical. Item #66153

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