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- catalog abstract "This paper notebook, titled "A Funeral Oration," contains a handwritten English translation of Harvard student Joseph Taylor's Latin funeral oration for Harvard Professor Edward Wigglesworth that was published in 1765 following Wigglesworth's death on January 16, 1765. The translation begins, "The Scene is dosed! Wigglesworth, according to divine Appointment, hath finished his course, and paid the last debt to nature."".
- catalog alternative "Funeral oration.".
- catalog contributor b12808007.
- catalog contributor b12808008.
- catalog date "1765".
- catalog description "Edward Wigglesworth (ca. 1693-1765; Harvard AB 1710) received Harvard's first endowed professorship when he became the Hollis Professor of Theology in 1722, and was made a Fellow of the Corporation in 1723. Wigglesworth died on January 16, 1765. His son Edward Wigglesworth (1731/2-1794) was the second Hollis Professor of Theology.".
- catalog description "Joseph Taylor (1745/6-1816; Harvard AB 1765) was born in Boston on March 16, 1745. He distinguished himself as a Latin scholar and orator at Harvard College, and delivered the main oration at the dedication of Hollis Hall, the funeral oration for Professor Wigglesworth, and the English oration at his undergraduate Commencement in 1765. Taylor was a Loyalist Boston merchant, and during the Revolutionary War he removed to London. Taylor later lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Boston before returning to London in 1806. Taylor died in Boston on December 14, 1816.".
- catalog description "This paper notebook, titled "A Funeral Oration," contains a handwritten English translation of Harvard student Joseph Taylor's Latin funeral oration for Harvard Professor Edward Wigglesworth that was published in 1765 following Wigglesworth's death on January 16, 1765. The translation begins, "The Scene is dosed! Wigglesworth, according to divine Appointment, hath finished his course, and paid the last debt to nature."".
- catalog extent ".01 cubic feet (1 folder)".
- catalog extent "[7] p. ;".
- catalog isPartOf "Collections of the Harvard University Archives. Historical materials. hua".
- catalog isPartOf "Harvard in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. hua".
- catalog issued "1765".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog subject "Harvard College Alumni and alumnae.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University Faculty.".
- catalog subject "Wigglesworth, Edward, approximately 1693-1765.".
- catalog title "English translation of Joseph Taylor's funeral oration for Edward Wigglesworth, [ca. 1765].".
- catalog title "Funeral oration.".
- catalog type "Funeral sermons 1765. rbgenr".
- catalog type "Orations Massachusetts 18th century. aat".
- catalog type "text".