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Leroy Anderson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC 00462
Scope and Contents
Circular letters, 1829, concerning subscriptions to publications of the Declaration of Independence in French and English to be published by Anderson, Sons & Co., Washington, D. C.; list of subscribers in Richmond, Norfolk, and Portsmouth, Va.; and a poem, "Archbishop Sharpe of York and the Highwayman" [concerning John Sharp.]
Dates:
1829
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Independence Day Oration
Collection
Identifier: SC 00033
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a handwritten oration containing ruminations on the Declaration of Independence and the need for education to prevent the fragmentation of the union. The speech also memorializes Henry Clay, Senator from Kentucky, who had died recently. The booklet is unsigned.
Dates:
1852 July 5
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center