Small 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering. 133pp. Very good. Faintest of wear only; tight and internally fine. First edition, undated but likely 1911, of this self-published eclectic collection of addresses and speeches delivered on a variety of topics (Abraham Lincoln, ideals in education, Judge Lawrence Weldon, etc.) -- handsomely inscribed and signed large and bold in brown ink on the half-title page: "To / Mrs. Julia Scott Vrooman / From her friend / Jas. S. Ewing / Mar. 10, 1911." James Stevenson Ewing (1835-1918) was a prominent attorney in Bloomington, Illinois, and cousin to fellow Bloomingtonian Adlai E. Stevenson I (1835-1914) -- Congressman, U.S. Postmaster General, U.S. Vice President under Grover Cleveland from 1893 to 1897 (which not coincidentally is when Cleveland appointed Ewing as extraordinary envoy and minister plenipotentiary to Belgium,1893-97). Julia Scott Vrooman (1876-1981) was the niece of Vice President Stevenson and thereby related to Ewing as well. From the library of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81), son of the governor and great-grandson of the vice president.

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