Broadside titled 'Mr. W. J. Bryan. Speech at Thanksgiving Day Banquet, Hotel Cecil, November 26.' Inscribed by Bryan to Cecil Harmsworth.

In three columns of small type, on one side of a piece of paper 41.5 x 26.5 cm. Fair, on aged and lightly-worn laid paper, with a little offsetting from the ink of the inscription. Reproduces the text of Bryan's speech without editorial interpolation. A report on the banquet (held by the American Society in London and with 'over 400 covers') in the New York Times, titled 'Bryan and Choate in a duel of repartee. Former Guest of Honor at Thanksgiving Day Banquet in London. Ambassador Tells of the Nebraskan's edifying Cross-Examination of the Governor of the Bank of England' (27 November 1903) reports: 'The speeches, while flavored by the usual seasonal cheer and references to British-American friendliness, developed particularly into a duel of repartee, good-natured, but almost sub-acid, between Mr. Bryan and Ambassador Choate.' "Published in the Speeches of William Jennings Bryan" (1913), vol.2, pp.196-204. No copy of the broadside listed on COPAC or WordCat