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Inauguration of the Spartanburg Female CollegeAntebellum Period | Speech | Spartanburg Female College Board of Trustees | 1855
William Gilmore Simms spoke at the opening of the
Spartanburg Female College at approximately 1pm[1]
on August 22, 1855 to an audience comprised largely of the Board of Trustees
and other persons involved in the founding of that institution[2]. His remarks were published several weeks
later in a pamphlet entitled Inauguration
of the Spartanburg Female College. His
talk focused on the two related topics of the value of education in general and
the importance of female education specifically. On the former, Simms compared the mind of man
to a wilderness terrain awaiting ... |
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Poetry and the PracticalAntebellum Period | Speech | The University of Arkansas Press | 1996 Poetry and the Practical was published
in 1996 by The University of Arkansas Press as part of The Simms Series. Edited with an introduction and notes by
James Everett Kibler Jr., the book contains a lecture written by Simms between
the years of 1851-54, which expanded from one to three parts. Kibler summarizes the lecture as “a clear,
forceful, inspired defense of poetry against those who would relegate it to the
margins of life.”[1] In a 12 November 1850 letter to Evert Augustus
Duyckinck, Simms made first mention of the lecture: “I recieve [sic] another application for a public
Lecture ... |
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The Power of Cotton: A Paper Read in the City of New YorkAntebellum Period | Speech | 1856 The
Power of Cotton is
a pamphlet published by Chatterton & Brother of New York in 1856. The work claims to be a paper read in New
York in November 1856. The only known
copy of the paper had been in the possession of Theodore Parker, the most
prominent Unitarian and Transcendentalist minister in the northeast in
1856. The work was bequeathed to the
public library of the city of Boston from the Parker estate on 30 October 1864,
four years after Parker’s passing. On
both the cover and title page, the precise location of the reading and the
author’s name were both removed ... |