Title: An English oration
Description: Paper notebook containing a handwritten copy of an essay titled "An English Oration" composed by Harrison Gray Otis for the 1783 Harvard Commencement. The essay discusses the American Revolution and begins, “An Omission of the usual appeals..."
Subjects: Commencements, Republicanism, Oratory, Students, Sources, History, Early works to 1800, Harvard College (1636-1780). Class of 1783, Harvard University
Places: United States
Time periods: 18th century, Revolution, 1775-1783