Letters to C. F. Choate [manuscript], 1865.

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Letters to C. F. Choate [manuscript], 1865.

Dana writes to Choate requesting guest tickets for his speech on Edward Everett, suggesting others to be invited, and then thanking him for the favor.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

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Edward Everett was an American statesman, clergyman, and orator, as well as professor of Greek at Harvard University and president of Harvard University, 1846-1849. Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard with highest honors in 1811, completing an M.A. in Divinity in 1814. After a brief stint as a minister, Harvard offered him the newly created position of Professor of Greek; brilliant but untrained, Everett went to Göttingen to prepare for...

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Choate was born in Salem, Mass. and graduated from Harvard College (1849) and Harvard Law School (1854). He devoted much of his practice to railroad law acting as counsel for the Boston and Maine Railroad. In 1865, he became counsel for the Old Colony Railroad, becoming its director (1872), and later its president (1877). In 1877, he was chosen president of the Old Colony Steamboat Company. From the description of Lawyer's letterpress book, 1874-1881. (Harvard Law School Library). Wo...

Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882

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