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Hard Cover. 8vo. pp vi 358 [2]. In publisher's green cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. Condition: Very Good, with small amount of corner missing from front free endpaper. Signed "R.W. Thompson from R.C.Winthrop Jr" to front free endpaper. ** Richard Wigginton Thompson (1809-1900) was an American politician, and Secretary of the Navy from 1877-1880 under President Rutherford B. Hayes, and for whom the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Thompson was named. Winthrop is known to have been in correspondence with Thompson (see the Lincoln Collection item 71200908302502, a letter from Winthrop inviting Thompson to visit Winthrop's home in Brookline during his visit to Boston and its Navy Yard). ** Robert Charles Winthrop (1809-1894) was Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1847-1849, and gave seed money to a teacher's college which became Winthrop University.
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