An oration delivered in Person Hall, Chapel Hill on the 27th June, 1827, the day previous to the commencement, under the appointment of the Dialectic Society ... Second edition
Raleigh: printed by Weston R. Gales - Raleigh Register Office, 1843. 12mo, pp. 23, [1]; removed from binding and tipped into library binder with red buckram backstrip, sprinkled edges; title and final leaf toned else very good. Archibald DeBow Murphey was an ardent education reformer and compiler of North Carolina history. His speech broadly covers the history of American writing, and later zeroes in on the education of men of letters in the country, which he finds to be lacking. Printed by newspaperman and brief Mayor of Raleigh, Weston R. Gales. American Imprints 43-3600. Item #58177
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