Ellis, George E. An Oration delivered at Charlestown, Massachusetts, on the 17th of June, 1841, in Commemoration of The Battle of Bunker Hill. Boston: William Crosby and Co., 1841. [5998]
Yellow printed wrappers, 5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches, small chips at front corners, 1 inch closed tear on front. 72 generally clean pp., a few small smudges. Good. Pamphlet.
Sabin 22307.
The Advertisement to the reader states that what is here printed is greatly expanded from the original remarks. "Large portions, here printed, were necessarily omitted in the delivery. The author aimed to present a fair and minute account of the memorable action in this town which opened the American Revolution...The author has availed himself of all the known existing means for affording information and ensuring accuracy...For a few particulars mentioned in the following pages, which are not derived from any public documents, it is to be understood that the author is indebted to some private sources of information."
George Edward Ellis, D.D., LL.D., born 1814 at Boston; graduated at Harvard College in 1833, and at the divinity school in 1836. A Unitarian minister, the pastor of the church at Charlestown, Massachusetts, from 1840 to 1860. Ellis was professor of systematic theology at Harvard from 1857 to 1863, and was vice-president, later president, of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Besides publishing sermons and theological works, Dr. Ellis wrote several excellent biographies and histories.