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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.

Found in: Special Collections Research Center

George Wythe Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.2 W99
Scope and Contents Copies of letters, 1781-1783, from George Wythe, Williamsburg, Va. , one to John Adams and another to Thomas Jefferson concerning the use of the College of William and Mary as a hospital. Also includes a magazine article about Wythe; newspaper copy of William Munford's oration at Wythe's funeral; correspondence, 1921, of Robert M. Hughes concerning a monument for Wythe's grave; a form book of Peter Tinsley, clerk of the High Court of Chancery which gives "Forms of Injunctions," Forms of...
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

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College of William and Mary--History--18th century 1
Colonial period, ca. 1609-1774 1
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United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 1
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Adams, John, 1735-1826 1
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 1
College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae 1
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 1
Hughes, Robert M. (Robert Morton), b. 1855 1
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Marshall-Wythe School of Law 1
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Wythe, George, 1726-1806 1
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