Broadside titled 'Mr. W. J. Bryan. Speech at Thanksgiving Day Banquet, Hotel Cecil, November 26.' Inscribed by Bryan to Cecil Harmsworth.

Author: 
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), American politician, Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States, 1896, 1900 and 1908 [Cecil Harmsworth (1869-1948), 1st Baron Harmsworth]
Publication details: 
[1903.] [London?]
£180.00
SKU: 8623

In three columns of small type, on one side of a piece of paper 41.5 x 26.5 cm. Fair, on aged and lightly-worn laid paper, with a little offsetting from the ink of the inscription. Reproduces the text of Bryan's speech without editorial interpolation. A report on the banquet (held by the American Society in London and with 'over 400 covers') in the New York Times, titled 'Bryan and Choate in a duel of repartee. Former Guest of Honor at Thanksgiving Day Banquet in London. Ambassador Tells of the Nebraskan's edifying Cross-Examination of the Governor of the Bank of England' (27 November 1903) reports: 'The speeches, while flavored by the usual seasonal cheer and references to British-American friendliness, developed particularly into a duel of repartee, good-natured, but almost sub-acid, between Mr. Bryan and Ambassador Choate.' "Published in the Speeches of William Jennings Bryan" (1913), vol.2, pp.196-204. No copy of the broadside listed on COPAC or WordCat