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A Poem Spoken in the Chapel of Yale College

Return Jonathan Meigs, 1784

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    A Poem Spoken in the Chapel of Yale College

    Return Jonathan Meigs, 1784
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    MEIGS, Return Jonathan, Jr (1764-1825). A Poem Spoken in the Chapel of Yale College, at the Quarterly Exhibitions, March 9th, 1784. New Haven, CT: Meigs, Bowen, and Dana, [1784].

    Scarce first edition of an early American poem and piece of Yaleiana. Meigs, the son of a Revolutionary War general, graduated from Yale in 1785 and went on to have a colorful political career mostly in Ohio. This work is sometimes mistakenly attributed to the elder Meigs. RBH last records a copy at auction in 1922. Stoddard 337; Sabin 47398.

    Quarto (194 x 156mm). 16pp. Stab sewn as issued (oversewn with new holes at later date). Provenance: a few early inscriptions on final leaf.
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