Lowell Shakspeare Memorial.

EXERCISES

ON THE

Ter-Centenary Celebration

OF THE BIRTH OF

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE,

APRIL 23, 1864,

BY THE CITIZENS OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

LOWELL, MASS.:

STONE & HUSE, PRINTERS, COURIER OFFICE, NO. 21 CENTRAL STREET.

LOWELL, April 26th, 1864.

REVEREND SIR:

At a meeting of the Committee of Arrangements for the Ter-Centenary Celebration of the Birth of Shakspeare, I was instructed to present you their most cordial thanks for your able, scholarly and instructive Oration delivered on that occasion before the citizens of Lowell, on Saturday last, and to request of you a copy thereof for publication. Yours respectfully,

The REV. WM. S. BARTLET, Chelsea, Mass.

DEAR SIR:

JOHN F. MCEVOY,

For the Committee.

CHELSEA, April 29th, 1864.

Permit me to thank the Committee for their favorable estimate of my Oration delivered on the twenty-third instant, and to comply with their request by placing the manuscript at their disposal.

No one can be more conscious of its defects than myself. But when I remind you that only three weeks were allowed me for the preparation of a commemorative address on the great Poet, when three months would hardly suffice for such an effort, I trust that some of the defects in the Oration may be excused.

JOHN F. McEvoy, Esq., Lowell, Mass.

Respectfully yours,

WM. S. BARTLET.