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Known Orations of William Gilmore Simms
Dates are believed to be the first public readings.
“Occasional Address for the Opening of the Charleston Theatre” (1837)
“Barnwell District Agricultural Society Oration” (1840)
“The Epochs and Events of American History, as Suited to the Purposes of Art in Fiction” (1842)
“The Social Principle” (1842)
“The Sources of American Independence” (1844)
“Self-Development” (1847)
“Poetry and the Practical” (1851)
“The Battle of Fort Moultrie” (1853)
“The Moral Character of Hamlet” (1854)
“Choice of a Profession” (1855)
“Inauguration of the Spartanburg Female College” (1855)
“An Oration—King’s Mountain” (1855)
Series on the History of South Carolina (ca. 1856)
“On the Colonial History of S.C. Lecture 1”
“On the Colonial and Ante-Colonial History of S.C. Lecture 1—The Ante-Colonial Period”
“Lecture 3—British Colonial Establishments in America”
“Lecture 4—South Carolina Under the Royal Government”
“Marion, the Carolina Partisan” (ca. 1856)
“The Idylls of the Apalachian [sic]” (1856)
“South Carolina in the Revolution” (1856)
“The Social Moral, Lecture 1” (1857)
“The Social Moral, Lecture 2” (1857)
“Antagonisms of the Social Moral, North and South” (1857)
“The Ideal and Real” (1857)
“The Sense of the Beautiful’ (1870)
“Constitution” (fragment, n.d.)
“Masonry” (fragment, n.d.)