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Winslow, Edward, 1714-1784. Oratio valedictoria. [Delivered at Harvard Commencement, 1736, before Ew. Belcher &c. With copy on blue paper.] HUC 6736.94, Harvard University Archives.

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The notebook contains the original six-page manuscript of the valedictory address composed in Latin by graduate Edward Winslow at the 1736 Harvard Commencement enclosed within 19th century blue notebook paper on which a second handwritten copy of the address is written. The original text includes edits and struck-through words.

Biographical Notes

Edward Winslow (1714-1784), a town officer in Plymouth, Mass., was born in Marshfield, Mass. on June 7, 1714. He received an AB from Harvard in 1736 and an AM in 1739. In 1738, he was appointed Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Plymouth County and Notary Public for the Port of Plymouth. Winslow was elected Town Clerk in 1740. He served in various Plymouth offices until the beginning of the Revolutionary War. In December 1781, he left for New York and remained there until 1783 when he and his family moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Winslow died on June 8, 1784.

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ut Dei Civitatem Colificent. Patria pace fruitur, & maximis Dei beneficiis ornatum, quorum minimis sumus minores. Et pro Coronide, Gratulamur vobis, Auditores Ornatissimi, regales Nuptias Serenissimi Principis de Wallia una cum Serenissima Augusta de Saxe Gotha Principissa. Quid putatis, Auditores, ut [?] vos {???} vestram, Quae surgere Regna? Quos Reges? Conjugio tali! Anglica se quantis attolet gloria rebus! His Nuptiis Deus loquatur de Familia servi sui Regis in plurimos annos. Vivat Casar noster Britannicus Georgius Secundus donec videret Natos Natorum & qui nascentur ab illis. Sed transit Gloria mundi; et habetis reum confitentem quod tantam rerum gloriam ferre accusent [?lumineri], Solamini autem et illud, magnis tamen [? expiat epiait excidit] ausis. Et [?] Jam ad ultimum Vale {?Dies] nos vocat invitos. Vale Gubernator Illustrissime, Tu quoque Vice Gubernator Spectatissime Valete Senatores Consultissimi, Valete Presbyteri maxime Reverendi. Valere Venerande [?] et [? denice, Tuque Praeses Dignissime. Valete, Auditores Candidissimi ad unum omnes qui Exercitiis nostris literariis benignos & Oculos & Aures praebuistis. Nobis omnia secunda & felicia apprecamur, & plurimum valere jubemus.

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