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Singerman ID#supp0069

Procès verbal of the Ceremony of Installation of President of the New-York Historical Society, as it will be performed February 8, 1820

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Singerman ID#supp0069

[Verplanck, Gulian Crommelin]. Procès verbal of the Ceremony of Installation of President of the New-York Historical Society, as it will be performed February 8, 1820 ... New-York: Printed for the use of the members, 1820. 18 p.

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A satire on the installation of David Hosack as president of the New-York Historical Society. Major Noah is slated to "make a Hebrew speech in honour of Governor Clinton and the President-elect" (p. 6). For authorship, see Appleton’s Cyclopædia of American Biography (New York, 1886-89), vol. 6, p. 281. Shoemaker 4099 (copy locations may include the 1864 reprint).