Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Henry Irving. Dear Sir.- The Harvard Shakspere Club, a society organized for the advancement of the study of elocution, of oratory, and of the drama, most cordially invites you to deliver a public lecture in Sanders Theatre, on a subject connected with your profession, and at such times as may suit your convenience. We make this request, believing that your direct and personal influence would be helpful to the club and to our student community. With grateful recognition of your efforts to elevate the standard of public taste and to ennoble the art of expression, I am very sincerely yours...
...Dear Sir.- Pray convey to the Harvard Shakspere Club my thanks for the honor which it has done me in asking me to deliver an address. It will be a pleasure and honor to me to appear at the University, and if Monday, 30th March, will be a convenient day, I shall hold myself ready to comply with the wishes of my Harvard friends. Believe me to be, my dear sir, sincerely yours...
...Dear Sir.- The members of the Harvard University Boat Club request me to send you the accompanying pitcher, and to express to you the hope that you will accept it in remembrance of the many hours you have spent in assisting them with your personal supervision and invaluable advice; and they desire me to assure you that they sincerely appreciate your efforts...
With feelings of gratitude, and affectionate regard toward each and all, I am, dear sir...
...other side, the government ought to be for the benefit of the people and not merely for the glory of the autocrat, and that it is his privilege to stand up for these principles, to fight for them, to suffer for them, like Cromwell or Sir John Eliot. He is the impersonation of the noble side of Puritanism; he lacks only its religious bigotry. He is the true hero of the poem even in Milton's mind, shocked as the poet would have been at such a thought. He carries our sympathy with him, and we wish for his success...