Eulogy to America’s National Poet
Presented by His Widow to Count Rumford
[DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre-Samuel, and Konrad Engelbert OELSNER.]
Notice sur la vie et les écrits de M. Joël Barlow, Ministre Plénipotentiaire des États-Unis d’Amérique auprès de S.M. l’Empereur des Français.
First edition, one of 500 copies, of this eulogy to the poet and diplomat Joel Barlow – a friend of Jefferson, Madison, Blake, and Paine – an association copy gifted by his widow, Ruth Barlow (née Baldwin) to the physicist and inventor Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, with her manuscript corrections to an extract from her husband’s work.
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