Research Catalog

Title

Washington eulogies ; a checklist of eulogies and funeral orations on the death of George Washington, December, 1799-February, 1800 / comp. by Margaret Bingham Stillwell. To which is prefixed van der Kemp\u0027s Eulogy of Washington, hitherto unpublished in English.

Author

New York Public Library.

Publication

[New York] : New York public library, 1916.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Van der Kemp, Francis Adrian, 1752-1829.
• Stillwell, Margaret Bingham, 1887-1984.

Description

68 pages : frontispiece (portrait); 26 cm

Subject

• Washington, George, 1732-1799 > Bibliography
• Washington, George, 1732-1799

Note

• "Reprinted ... with some alterations from the Bulletins of the New York public library of February and May, 1916."
• "[Van der Kemp\u0027s] eulogy ... was delivered at Oldenbarneveld, on February 22, 1800. The copy ... printed herewith is from the manuscript which belonged to Mrs. Washington. It is now in the Martha Washington collection of Washington eulogies in the New York public library ... Another copy of the manuscript was sent by the author to Holland. There it was translated into Dutch and published ... with the title \u0027Lofrede op George Washington, te Oldenbarneveld, den 22sten van Sprokkelmaand 1800 ... Te Amsterdam ... MDCCC\u0027."--p. 7-8.

Contents

Francis Adrian van der Kemp\u0027s Eulogy of Washington.--Checklist of eulogies: Introduction. The New York public library collection. Recorded eulogies not in the New York public library. A calendar of services, December, 1799-February, 1800. A census of American towns.

LCCN

16019988

OCLC

• ocm03161784
• SCSB-3218028

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries