Author: Rives, William C., Esq.
Title: Discourse Before the Young Men's Christian Association of Richmond, on the Ethics of Christianity (an Association Copy)
Description: Richmond, Printed by John Nowlan, 1855. First Edition. First edition; 9 x 5 1/2; pp. [1], 4-28, [2]; gray wraps, printed and ruled in black; tiny chips to tips of spine and lower corner; faint creasing to fore-edge; in very good condition. Signed and inscribed by the author to Senator Rufus Choate on the title page. Choate's ownership signature and address in his hand to front wrap. William Cabell Rives (1793 - 1868) was a Virginia lawyer, diplomat, and politician - initially, as a Jacksonian Democrat and later, as a Whig. He was also a Minister to France and during the Civil War - a Delegate to the Provisional Confederate Congress. Rufus Choate (1799 - 1859) was an orator, lawyer, Attorney General of Massachusetts, and a Senator from the Whig Party. Very good .

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