Speeches at banquet for Paul Morphy, 31 May 1859.

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Speeches at banquet for Paul Morphy, 31 May 1859.

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Manuscript copies of speeches delivered at a banquet held 31 May 1859 at the Revere House in Boston, Mass. organized by the Boston Chess Club to honor chess player Paul Morphy on his return from a chess tour in Europe. Essays were delivered by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jared Sparks, Charles Hale and others; and recorded by Boston Chess Club secretary J. B. Rhodes.

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Hale, Charles, 1831-1882

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Charles Hale (1831-1882) was a Boston journalist and politician who graduated from Harvard in 1850. He was junior editor of his father's newspaper, the Boston Daily Advertiser, and in 1852 he founded the Boston literary journal, Today. From 1864 to 1870, Hale was U.S. Consul-General to Egypt, and was active in the development of Egypt's Assembly system. After 1870, he held various Massachusetts political offices. His publications include: All Men Are Born Equal ... (Boston, 1856); Our Houses Are...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Sparks, Jared (1)

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Morphy, Paul Charles, 1837-1884

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American chess player. From the description of Paul Charles Morphy letter to Cyrus Powers [manuscript], 1859 May 19. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 465059241 ...

Boston Chess Club.

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Rhodes, J. B.

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