[RICHMOND] ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE TWENTY-SECOND ANIVERSARY OF THE RICHMOND MALE ORPHAN ASYLUM, APRIL 19th, 1869

[Major] Robert Stiles

Richmond: Gary, Clemmitt & Jones, Printers, 1869.

Address given by the author of Four Years Under Marse Robert in which he makes the case for the importance of Male Orphan Asylum in the community, exhorts his listeners to Christian virtue, and finally makes the pitch: “I knew well, my friends,that real pressure had drawn your purse strings tight, and that it would take all the weight of God to press them open now ... God is your greatest creditor.” An impressive oratorical performance in the immediate years following the Civil War -- a time when there must have been plenty of orphans. 15 side-stitched pages, lacking the wrappers. Uncommon, with a handful of copies and those in the usual places.

Item #279239

Price: $125.00