"An address delivered in response to the toast 'Virginia' at the banquet given by the citizens of Petersburg, Virginia, to the President of the United States and the governor of Pennsylvania, on May 19, 1909."
Inscription on recto of second front endsheet: "A good man through obscurest aspirations has still an instinct of the one true way." Goethe - Faust.
[erased sentence] With deepest appreciation presented by the author, Louis Dechmann.
On box cover:…
Bookplate: Library of Woodrow Wilson Birthplace, Stauntion, Virginia. Gift of the W. K. McClure Foundation for the Study of World Affairs.
Stamp on title page: University of Virginia Law Library.