INFORMATION CIRCULAR 17 
                                            (Revised 1955)

 
                       THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

                         CONSTITUENT SERVICES
               SERIAL & GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS DIVISION




                         
                         The Sun, New York
            
                         September 3, 1833
           
The Sun, New York, of Tuesday, September 3, 1833, is the first
issue, "Number l," of that newspaper.  It was published daily by
Benj.  H. Day, printer, and has been reprinted by later publishers
on various anniversaries: September 3, 1853; 1883; February 27 to
March 7, 1931; September 2, 1933, and others.  Some of the reprints
bear notices to that effect but others are without such notice.  
All reprints examined, however, have numerous minor variations from
the original.      
     The Library of Congress does not have an original of this
issue.  A comparison of the several reprints in the Library
of Congress with a photostat copy of the original belonging to
the New York Public Library shows that they differ in various
details.  The text of the original reads as follows:

    Page 1, column 1, last line of the masthead has "Three
Dollars" capitalized.     
    Page 1, column 1, second advertisement, line 2, "steamboats"
plural.     
    Page 1, column 1, second advertisement, line 7, "Captains"
plural.     
    Page 1, column 1, third advertisement, line 5, "Catharine" not
"Catherine".     
    Page 1, column 1, third advertisement, line 10, "hour"
singular.     
    Page 1, column 1, fourth advertisement, line 2, "master" lower
case.     
    Page 1, column 1, fourth advertisement, line 4, "captain" lower
case.    
    Page 1, column 1, fifth advertisement, line 2, "Tallahassee"
not "Tallahasse".     
    Page 1, column 1, sixth advertisement, line 1, "packet ship"
not "Packet ship".    
    Page 1, column 2, next to last line, "trible the sum" not
"treble the sum".     
    Page 1, column 3, second article, line 2, misspelled
"charriot".     
    Page 2, column 1, paragraph 3, line 2, "almshouse" lower case. Ôh)0*0*0*°°ÔŒ    Page 3, column 3, third advertisement, "J. Bleeker & Sons" not
"J. Bleecker & Sons". 
 
     The reprints differ from the original in some if not all of
these details.   Their monetary value is very small. 







                            U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1955 
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