21.   Lemuel Shattuck.  A History of the Town of Concord … (Boston: Russell, Odiorne, 1835).  Letterpress on paper; heavily annotated, interleaved, and extra-illustrated by Edward Jarvis; half bound in leather and marbled paper boards. From the estate of Edward Jarvis, 1885.

   Edward Jarvis’s annotated copy of Shattuck’s history of Concord—here opened to show Jarvis’s tell-all description of the choice of Emerson as orator—reveals much about the local political climate in which the 1835 celebration was planned.  Tension between local interests and the world beyond Concord and between the haves and have-nots of the town are apparent in the account.

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