Title: Pietas et gratulatio collegii Cantabrigiensis apud Novanglos
Description: Latin, Greek and English poems written to celebrate the accession of George III. Although dated 1761, publication was not authorized by Harvard College until January 5, 1762. Advertised in the Boston gazette, August 30, 1762 as "this day published." The advertisement continues, "This piece has been a considerable while printed: and a number of copies having been sent to England for the King and royal family, it was tho’t proper to postpone the publishing of it here, till such time as it might be supposed the copies aforesaid had been presented." The Preface signed by President and Fellows of Harvard College. A handwritten index in the front of the Harvard University Archives copy HUA 761.70 attributes sections of the work to Governor Bernard Francis, Harvard President Edward Holyoke, Harvard Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages Stephen Sewall, Harvard Professor John Winthrop, John Lovell (Harvard AB 1728), John Lowell (Harvard AB 1760), Benjamin Church (Harvard AB 1754), James Bowdoin (Harvard AB 1745), Samuel Deane (Harvard AB 1760), Samuel Cooper (Harvard AB 1743), and [Peter] Oliver (Harvard AB 1730).
Subjects: Poetry, History, American College verse, Relations with Great Britain, Harvard University, Harvard College (1636-1780)
People: George III King of Great Britain (1738-1820)