Note 1221 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)

The official account of the recent celebration at Yorktown is called a Report of the Commission for a monument commemorative of the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis (Wash., 1883). This contains Robert C. Winthrop's oration, which has also been separately printed. Another notable address was by the Hon. J. L. M. Curry, delivered at Richmond and published. A French account of this anniversary, Yorktown Centénaire de l'indépendance des Etats-Unis d'Amérique, 1781-1881 (Paris, 1886), is the work of Rochambeau's descendant. Cf. Stone's French Allies, 535; Mag. of Amer. Hist., vii. 302; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xix. 101. Another volume called forth by the same celebration is An Account of General Lafayette's Visit to Virginia in 1824-25, by Robert D. Ward, Richmond, 1881.