Proceedings on the occasion of the banquet to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of General U.S. Grant, at Delmonico's, Friday, April 27th, 1888 half-past seven p. m.

Authors

Grant Birthday Association of New York

Files

Contributor

Dawson, Noble E., -1916.

Description

This fifty-four page bound pamphlet, titled "Proceedings on the occasion of the banquet to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of General U.S. Grant, at Delmonico's, Friday, April 27th, 1888 half-past seven p. m., as reported by Nobel E. Dawson," includes the documentation of the formation of the committee known as "The Grant Birthday Association of New York". Also included are menus, seating arrangements, membership information, and a detailed description of the event including the speeches given. The cover of the book is dark red and has some damage on the spine and edges. Several member signatures are written in pencil on the blank pages prior to the title page. A copy of the address given by James F. Wilson at the Grant Memorial Services a Fairfield, Iowa, on August 8, 1885 is included as loose pages with the pamphlet. The memorial speech is torn along the edges.

Rights

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Publication Date

1889

Publisher

New York : C.G. Crawford, 1889

Time Period

1880-1889

Keywords

U. S. Grant; Ulysses Grant; General Grant; Grant's birthday

Geographic Location

New York, (N. Y.)

Object Type

text

Format (original)

pamphlet

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

USG_Noble-Dawson_1888_Bound-Journal

Source

Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Noble E. Dawson Papers, Box 1, folder 71

Repository

Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University Libraries.

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.

Recommended Citation

Noble E. Dawson Papers, Box 1, folder 71, Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Mississippi State University Libraries