Show early lecturers fees louis J alber says in the commentator men in 1831 ralph waldo emerson wrote 1 I am willing to come to waltham on the date you suggest and lecture to your lyceum for the 5 fee you offer but I 1 think you should also give me four quarts of oats for my horse daniel webster was the first lecturer to receive a fee of abraham lincoln lectured at cooper union for and in 1880 henry ward beecher was wag paid the first known fee of 1000 after finding livingstone in africa henry M stanley received and all expenses for a hundred lectures |