E. Committee to frame rules, directions, and statutes of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, 1804

This subseries consists of a paper notebook containing a handwritten draft of the report presented to the Harvard Corporation on April 30, 1804 by the Committee to frame Rules, Directions, and Statutes of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory. The handwritten report provides a numbered list of rules related to the Boylston Professorship and is dated April 16, 1804. The report is followed by a certification signed May 1, 1804 from President Joseph Willard that he was unable to attend the meeting of the Corporation to discuss the professorship.

Draft of the Rules, Directions, and Statutes of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College, [ca. 1804]

This original draft was probably written by Eliphalet Pearson (1752-1826) as a member of the committee charged with the task of establishing the rules, directions, and statutes for the Boylston Professorship by the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers. This draft is heavily edited and contains many cross outs through the text.

Notes on the Oratory Encyclopedia, undated

Two folded leaves containing handwritten notes on pages 370-468 of a volume identified only as the title "Oratory Encyclopedia." There are also brief notes of the topics of some of John Ward's lectures.

E. Committee to frame rules, directions, and statutes of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, 1804

This subseries consists of a paper notebook containing a handwritten draft of the report presented to the Harvard Corporation on April 30, 1804 by the Committee to frame Rules, Directions, and Statutes of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory. The handwritten report provides a numbered list of rules related to the Boylston Professorship and is dated April 16, 1804. The report is followed by a certification signed May 1, 1804 from President Joseph Willard that he was unable to attend the meeting of the Corporation to discuss the professorship.

The speaker's garland and literary bouquet. v. 1-10. : Combining 100 choice selections, nos. 1-40. Embracing new and standard productions of oratory, sentiment, eloquence, pathos, wit, humor and amateur plays.

Comp. by Phineas Garrett.

Lectures on rhetoric and oratory /

Reprint of the original edition of 1810.

Evolution of expression. A compilation of selections illustrating the four stages of development in art as applied to oratory.

Mode of access: Internet.

The library of oratory : ancient and modern, with critical studies of the world's great orators by eminent essayists /

Mode of access: Internet.

A course of reading for common schools and the lower classes of academies : on the plan of the author's "Elements of reading and oratory".

Mode of access: Internet.

Lectures on the present position of Catholics in England: addressed to the brothers of the Oratory.

Mode of access: Internet.

The American orator's own book : a manual of extemporaneous eloquence including a course of discipline for the faculties of discrimination, arrangement and oral discussion and also practical exercises in reading, recitations and declamatory debate : intended for the use of colleges, schools, students of oratory, and all public speakers.

Mode of access: Internet.