Dr John Fell, 1625-1686, Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Oxford, was for more than two years Vice-Chancellor of the university. He procured the publication of the works of a different classical author each year, and presented every member of his college with a copy. He also gave a large number of printing types to the University Press, including founts of several Oriental languages. In 1706 the Oxford press issued A Specimen of the several sorts of Letters given to the University by Dr. John Fell sometime Lord Bishop of Oxford. To which is added The Letter given by Mr. F. Junius. Oxford, Printed at the Theater, A. D. 1706. For a note on ''Mr. F. Junius'' see no. 4864.
Clement Barksdale, 1609-1687, English clergyman and author. Numerous allusions to contemporary persons and events are to be found in his Nympha Libethris, 1651." "00110","STC G155." "00130","
Jefferson frequently made a point of buying the Foulis press editions of the classics, a number of which will be found in this catalogue. His enthusiasm for the Greek type used by the Foulis is shown in a letter to Philippe-Denis Pierres, the printer of the Notes on Virginia, dated from Paris 12me. Janvier, 1787:
M. Jefferson prie Monsieur Pierre de vouloir bien lui envoyer les feuilles qu'il a eu la bonté de faire imprimer pour lui. il a l'honneur de lui demander s'il seroit possible de procurer pour la presse d'imprimerie que Monsieur Pierre a eu la complaisance de se charger de faire faire pour M. Jefferson, les characteres charmantes de Didot, de deux grandeurs, c'est à dire, de la plus petite, et de la Moyenne? si M. Jefferson demanderoit des Messrs Foulis de Glasgow, des characteres Grecques, est il bien sur qu'on pourroit les accommoder à une presse quelconque? dans ce cas M. Jefferson prieroit Monsr. Pierre de vouloir bien lui indiquer la nombre de chaque caractere qu'il doit faire venir de ces Messieurs.
Pierre felt no need to import any type from Foulis. His reply is dated from Paris le 15 janvier:
J'ai l'honneur de vous adresser les cartons dont vous avez desiré l'impression. Je souhaitte que vous en soyez satisfait.
Quant aux Caracteres que vous demandez pour accompagner la petite Presse, je ne crois pas qu'il soit nécessaire de choisir ceux des Didot des Foulis: J'en ai qui ont été gravés par Garamond, et dont la beauté ne cede en rien à ceux-là. Si cependant, Monsieur, vous tenez à cette idée, ayez la bonté de me la faire savoir, et alors vous voudriez bien vous adresser à eux mesmes; mais je n'on vois point la nécessité . . ." "00140","For Charles Duker, read Karl Andreas Duker." "00160","Macdonald and Hargreaves no. 1." "00220","P. and C. Roche, booksellers at 51 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, were in partnership from 1805 to 1807." "00230","Joseph Milligan, bookbinder, printer, bookseller, publisher, and owner of a circulating library in Georgetown. In one or another of his various capacities Milligan was constantly in communication with Jefferson, who considered him the finest binder in the United States: ''for elegant bindings to choice books, there is no one in America to compare with him. his bindings are so tasty, so solid, and as heavy as blocks of metal.'' Milligan was responsible for the appraisal of Jefferson's library when it was sold to Congress and for arrangements to move it after the sale." "00240","James Lackington, 1746-1815, London bookseller. His first catalogue was published in 1779. Lackington sold for cash only, at the lowest possible prices, and issued a large number of catalogues. His shop was known as the Temple of the Muses and was one of the sights of London." "00250","
Van Damme, bookseller of Amsterdam. Jefferson bought books directly from him, and at auction sales through him, during the time of his residence in Paris as Minister Plenipotentiary.
Guillaume De Bure, 1734-1820, French bibliographer and auctioneer of rare books, was a member of the notable bibliographic family of that name." "00260","John March, binder of Georgetown, had one of the earliest bookstores in that town." "00280","Peyton Randolph, c.1721-1775, son of Sir John Randolph, was born in Virginia and educated at the College of William and Mary. He studied law in London, was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1739, and was called to the Bar in 1744. He returned to Williamsburg and was appointed King's attorney. After his death Jefferson purchased his library, including a number of valuable Virginia law manuscripts Randolph had inherited from his father." "00290","Friedrich Rudolf Salzmann, 1749-1821, was the editor of the Rheinischer Most, projected by the members of the Deutsche Gesellschaft in Strassburg." "00310","Thomas Mann Randolph, 1768-1828, married Jefferson's daughter Martha on February 23, 1790. He was a member of Congress, and from 1819 to 1822 was Governor of Virginia. He and his wife and family lived at Monticello during all but the first year or two of their married life." "00380","
Jean Antoine Gautier was not a partner in the firm of Grand & Cie on July 21, 1788. The partnership had been dissolved on March 24, 1785, and a new firm, J. A. Gautier et Comp., had been formed. Gautier's partner in the new firm was Pierre Claude Etienne Corsange.
Lucy Ludwell Paradise, 1751-1814, was the daughter of the third Philip Ludwell of Green Spring near Williamsburg. She married John Paradise in London in 1769. She died in the Eastern State Hospital for the insane in 1814.
Maffeo Pinelli was a Venetian book collector. After his death his collections were sold to James Edwards of London and were shipped in three vessels. One of them was captured by pirates and the books were thrown into the sea. The remainder of the books were sold at auction by Edwards in 1789 for a total of £9,000." "00410","
Barbié du Bocage, 1760-1825, French geographer, was a member of a number of learned societies, both French and foreign.
Joseph Willard, 1738-1804, was President of Harvard University.
J. F. Froullé, Parisian bookseller, printer, and publisher. Jefferson did business with Froullé over a period of years, buying books from him not only for himself, but for a number of his friends in the United States. Jefferson, who almost invariably wrote the name ''Frouillé'' thought very highly of him. In a letter to John Stockdale, written on July 17, 1787, he described him as ''my Bookseller Frouillé, Quai des Augustins, an extremely honest man,'' and some years later, in a letter to James Monroe written on May 26, 1795, Jefferson wrote: ''while speaking of Froullé, libraire, au quai des Augustins, I can assure you that having run a severe gauntlet under the Paris booksellers I rested at last on this old gentleman, whom I found in a long & intimate course of after dealings to be one of the most conscientiously honest men I ever had dealings with. I commend you to him strongly should you purchase books.''" "00540","
William Byrd, 1674-1744, of Westover, Virginia, was the first native of the British colonies in Continental America to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He collected a fine library which was sold after his death. Jefferson purchased a number of his books from Nicholas Gouin Dufief (q. v.), who had acquired them at the sale.
Armand Koenig, Strassbourg bookseller, with whom Jefferson had dealings during his residence in Paris." "00570","
Samuel Henley, 1740-1815, was professor of moral philosophy at the College of William and Mary. He returned to England on the outbreak of the War of American Independence, where he followed a scholastic and literary career. Jefferson bought a number of books from his library, for which see the Index.
In the note concerning his book the date of the sale to Congress should read 1815, not 1814." "00640","John Stockdale, 1749?-1814, London publisher. Stockdale began as a porter to John Almon [q. v.] on whose retirement in favor of Debrett [q. v.] Stockdale opened an opposition shop. Numerous transactions between Jefferson and Stockdale, who acted as the former's agent for the purchase of books in London, are noted in this catalogue. Stockdale was the publisher of the first English edition of the Notes on the State of Virginia, no. 4167." "00660","In the bibliographies, for ''Burnet,'' read ''Brunet.''" "00680","William Cocke, 1747-1828, Virginia lawyer, was a lifelong friend of Jefferson, whose library contained a number of books with Cocke's signature." "00690","John Pemberton. 1727-1795, Quaker preacher of Philadelphia. For an account of him and his activities, see the Dictionary of American Biography." "00750","The dates of Pieter Burmann, the editor, should read 1668-1741, not 1688-1741." "00760","For M. Burg read M. Burghers. Michael Burghers, d. 1723, was the official engraver to the Oxford press." "00800","
Anne Cary Bankhead (whose middle name should be so spelled) was Jefferson's granddaughter, the daughter of Martha and Thomas Mann Randolph, and wife of Charles L. Bankhead.
Charles Clay was a close friend of Jefferson, and a neighbor at his Poplar Forest estate." "00860","Reuben Skelton was the brother of Bathurst Skelton, the first husband of Jefferson's wife." "01010","Francis Hopkinson, 1737-1791, statesman, musician, and author, was the son of Thomas Hopkinson, who emigrated from London to Philadelphia in 1731, and was one of the founders of the American Philosophical Society, the Library Company, and the College of Philadelphia. Jefferson was in frequent correspondence with Hopkinson; see the Index." "01220","Charles Pougens, a bookseller of Paris, from whom Jefferson bought books for the Library of Congress." "01270","
John Murray, fourth Earl of Dunmore, 1732-1809, colonial Governor of Virginia at the time of the Revolution. Several books with his bookplate are in Jefferson's library.
George Gilmer was a young Scottish physician who had emigrated to Williamsburg, and married there in 1732.
For Merewether, read Meriwether." "01280","
The final date should read M. DCC. XLVIII.
Jefferson mentioned the Universal History in a letter to Isaac McPherson, dated from Monticello, August 13, 1813. For the quotation, see no. 3946." "01300","John Trumbull, 1756-1843, the painter of the Revolution, embarked for London (his second visit) in December 1783. In 1785 he went to Paris, where he met Jefferson, and he returned to London in 1786. During Jefferson's residence in Paris, Trumbull performed numerous commissions for him in London. See the Index." "01370","
The title of this book, by James Eyre Weeks, reads: The Gentleman's Hour Glass. Or, An Introduction to Chronology; being a plain and compendious analysis of Time and its Divisions . . . Dublin: printed for J. Hoey, 1750.
This book is not listed in Lowndes, the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Watt, Allibone, or the British Museum Catalogue. The title was obtained from the card of the University of Minnesota in the National Union Catalog." "01450","Narcissus Luttrell, 1657-1732, English book-collector and bibliographer." "01520","The dates of James Hardie should read 1750?-1832." "01550","
Jefferson acquired his copy with his purchase of the Bland library.
Richard Bland, 1710-1776, Virginia statesman, was educated at the College of William and Mary. He was a member of the first House of Delegates, and served until his death. He was a collector of books and of early manuscript records, a number of which were purchased by Jefferson after his death." "01560","Thomas Carte, 1686-1754, English historian and Jacobite. After the Jacobite rising of 1715 he escaped to France and devoted himself to collecting materials for illustrating a translation into English of Thuani Historiarum sui Temporis. These materials were purchased by Dr. Mead in 1724 and published by Buckley in 1733." "01640","John Jay, 1745-1829, became Secretary of Foreign Affairs in 1784, Chief Justice of the United States in 1789, and Governor of New York in 1795." "01710","Enos Bronson was a publisher of newspapers in Philadelphia from 1801 to 1819." "01770","For Catalenes, read Catalanes." "01980","For George Otis, read George Alexander Otis." "02180","William Short, 1759-1849, diplomat, was for a time private secretary to Jefferson." "02190","
Maria Cecilia Louisa Cosway, miniature-painter, was born in Florence of English parents and went to England after the death of her father. In 1781 she married Richard Cosway, English artist. Maria Cosway spent much time in Paris, where she became a great friend of Jefferson, who wrote to her his famous letter of October 12, 1786, giving the dialogue between his head and his heart.
Fulwar Skipwith's name should be so given. Skipwith was a Virginian, and at different times he represented the United States in Paris, Martinique, and other places." "02400","David Bailie Warden, 1772-1845, has one ''l'' only in his middle name, which should be read as Bailie wherever it occurs. Warden was an author, diplomat, and book-collector. He was born in Ireland and educated in Scotland, but emigrated to the United States in 1799 because of his association with the United Irishmen. In 1804 he went to Paris as secretary to General John Armstrong, and in 1810 he became the United States Consul in that city. Warden was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and he published a number of books and translations. See the Index." "02430","Wotton's Short View was sold to Congress in 1815. In the catalogue of 1815 it was reclassified into chapter 43, where the description will be found. (See no. 4854.) In Jefferson's entry the word Hickes's in the book's title is correctly written." "02490","J. Philip Reibelt, a Swiss who came to the United States circa 1803 and in 1804 settled in Baltimore as a bookdealer and importer. Jefferson bought a number of books from him, for which see the Index. In 1806 Reibelt left Baltimore and settled in New Orleans." "02670","Caspar Wistar, 1761-1818, physician of Philadelphia, and a great friend of Jefferson. The plant Wistaria was named for him." "02710","Adrienne-Catherine de Noailles, comtesse de Tessé, the wife of a Spanish Grandee and herself a Dame d'honneur de la Reine, was a great friend of Jefferson in Paris, with whom he had much correspondence. See the Index." "02760","Thomas Brand Hollis was originally Thomas Brand but took the name Hollis on inheriting the property of Thomas Hollis the Republican. See the Index." "03080","In the collation, K8 should read K8." "03130","Sir Hans Sloane, 1660-1753, physician, was born in Ireland. On the death of Sir Isaac Newton he became President of the Royal Society. By bequeathing his collections to the nation he became the founder of the British Museum. His name is perpetuated in London in Sloane Street, Sloane Square, Hans Place, Hans Road, and others." "03290","Thomas Baker, 1656-1740, English antiquarian, author, and book-collector, was one of the fellows ejected as a non-juror from St. John's College, Cambridge." "03300","For Verstegan, read Verstegen." "03320","STC S3236." "03380","For Burnet, read Brunet." "03550","William Burnet, 1688-1729, son of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, was appointed Governor of New York and New Jersey in 1720." "03660","Jefferson acquired his copy of this work with his purchase of the Bland library." "03670","STC S5066 places this as the second issue of the first edition, which was printed in the same year by Thomas Newcomb, but without the name Sam. Lowndes in the imprint." "03790","The Daniel De Foe named here was the eldest son of the writer Daniel Defoe. He eventually emigrated to Carolina." "04020","
Bushrod Washington, 1762-1829, the nephew of George Washington, was associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Joseph Delaplaine was a Philadelphia publisher and occasional author.
Sir John Phillipart was attached to the establishment of the Duke of Kent." "04050","William Tunnicliffe was in London during 1805 and later. In 1810 he was in Washington, D. C." "04100","Samuel Pleasants, printer, publisher, and book-dealer in Richmond, Virginia, was also the publisher of several newspapers." "04110","
George Ticknor, 1791-1871, was born in Boston. From 1815 to 1819 he was in Europe, where he performed a large number of commissions for Jefferson and was in frequent correspondence with him on his book purchases. After his return to the United States in 1819 he became professor of modern languages and belles lettres at Harvard College. He was one of the most influential persons in shaping the policy of the Boston Public Library. On June 10, 1815, in a letter to John Adams, Jefferson wrote:
. . . I thank you for making known to me mr Ticknor & mr Gray. they are fine young men indeed, and if Massachusetts can raise a few more, it is probable she would be better counselled as to social rights and social duties. mr Ticknor is particularly the best bibliographer I have met with, and very kindly and opportunely offered me the means of reprocuring some part of the literary treasures which I have ceded to Congress to replace the devastations of British Vandalism at Washington . . .
Francis Calley Gray, 1790-1856, was a fellow of Harvard College, which benefited considerably from his will." "04130","STC P2022." "04230","The underscoring in the quoted passage is an error. David Bailie Warden's dates should read 1772-1845." "04270","James Pemberton, 1723-1809, Quaker merchant of Philadelphia. Pemberton was a philanthropist and succeeded Benjamin Franklin as President of the Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery." "04310","STC S5046." "04330","Samuel Knox, 1756-1832, Presbyterian minister and educator, was born in Ireland and educated in Scotland at Glasgow University. Eventually he settled in the United States and was the author of A Vindication of the Religion of Mr. Jefferson and a Statement of his Services in the Cause of Religious Liberty. By a Friend of Real Religion, 1800." "04400","
Thomas Addis Emmet, 1764-1827, Irish patriot and lawyer. He came to New York in November 1804 and applied for naturalization papers three days after his arrival.
Rufus King, 1755-1827, Federalist Senator, was for a time minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain, succeeding Thomas Pinckney in 1796." "04430","
Johann Christoph von Adelung, 1732-1806, German grammarian and philologist, was the principal librarian to the Elector of Saxony in Dresden. Only the first volume of his chief work, Mithridates, was published before his death; the other two were issued later by Johann Severin Vater.
For Benjamin Smith Barton, see the Index." "04460","The handwriting is possibly that of the senior Thomas Randolph, not Jefferson's son-in-law." "04510","On April 28, 1821, in a list of books advertised in the National Intelligencer as lost from the Library of Congress, George Watterston included: a work in p. 4to by Cotton Mather, of some antiquity and great rarity, on the celebrated Witchcraft delusions of New England. The advertisement included also the marks of provenance. It seems that Watterston must have been misled by Jefferson's entry ascribing this work to Mather, and that the missing book was in reality Calef's work, which has all the marks of provenance, including Jefferson's shelf-mark with the correct number for Calef's work." "04570","
Nathaniel Chapman, 1780-1853, physician, was born in Fairfax County, Virginia. For a time he was a pupil of Benjamin Rush, and later he was the President of the Philadelphia Medical Society for six successive terms. He was the first President of the American Medical Association.
For Horatio Gates Spafford see the Index." "04640","
John Page, 1743-1808, of Rosewell, Gloucester County, Virginia, met Jefferson when they were both students at the College of William and Mary, and they enjoyed a lifelong friendship. Page became the Governor of Virginia in 1802.
George Jefferson was Thomas Jefferson's cousin, the son of his first cousin Peter Feild Jefferson. George was a partner in the firm of Gibson and Jefferson of Richmond, Virginia, who handled Jefferson's financial affairs. In 1811 he went to Lisbon as the United States Consul, and he lost his life on his return voyage.
Skelton Jones, newspaper publisher in Richmond, Virginia, was a brother of Meriwether Jones.
Louis Hue Girardin, a French emigrant to the United States, was for a time professor of modern languages at the College of William and Mary. He was in frequent correspondence with Jefferson, who bought part of his library." "04660","Christoph Daniel Ebeling, 1741-1817, was professor of history and the Greek language at the Gymnasium of Hamburg, and in 1800 was appointed librarian of the city. He wrote a number of books, several of the more important of which relate to America. At the time of his correspondence with Jefferson he was in the midst of compiling his Erdbeschreibung und Geschichte von Nordamerika, issued in 7 volumes from 1793 to 1816. Volume I, for New Hampshire and Massachusetts, was issued in 1793; Vol. II, for Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, and New York, in 1794; Vol. III, for New York and New Jersey, in 1796; Vol. IV, for Pennsylvania, in 1797; Vol. V, for Delaware and Maryland, in 1799; Vol. VI, for Pennsylvania (enlarged), in 1803; and Vol. VII, for Virginia, in 1816. The Virginia volume was dedicated to William Bentley, Sameul Latham Mitchill, and Henry St. George Tucker, qqv. Ebeling's collection of books and maps was purchased in 1818 by Israel Thorndike and presented to Harvard University." "04720","White Kennett's bibliography was the first ever made devoted exclusively to Americana with the exception of the Epitome of Léon Pinelo; see no. 4095." "04810","For Sabin 16184 read 16811." "04850","Jefferson's heading should read l'Amerique Septentrionale, and for the word citroyens in the title, read citoyens." "04880","
Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, 1757-1834, entered the American service as a major general in 1776. He was a friend of both Washington and Jefferson. He married a niece of Madame Noailles de Tessé.
In the letter from Jefferson to William Short (page 233, column 2, line 3) the word livres should be deleted." "04900","
Worsley and Murray, a Richmond firm, sent to Jefferson on February 8, 1802, Proposals for publishing a Richmond edition of Ramsay's work:
We have taken the liberty to inclose you one of our Proposals for publishing a Richmond Edition of Dr Ramsay's History of the American Revolution, and beg leave respectfully to solicit your patronage. It is really to be regretted that the art of Printing is not more encouraged in the State of Virginia; but, from the very flattering patronage we have received since we issued our proposals for publishing the above Work, we are induced to believe that it has been owing, rather to a deficiency of perseverance in Publishers, than a want of Public Spirit and liberality in the People.
(Original letter in the Huntington Library.)" "04920","Henry and Patrick Rice, booksellers and stationers in Philadelphia from 1793 to 1805. They originally had separate establishments but went into partnership in 1793." "05000","For Evans 32865, read 33865." "05020","
Jefferson had previously written to James Madison from Annapolis on December 11, 1783:
. . . I see Bradford advertizes Smith's history of N. York. as I mean to write for one myself, and think I heard you say you had it not, I shall add one for you . . .
(Original in the Madison Papers, Library of Congress.)" "05050","George Hammond, 1763-1853, English diplomat, was sent to Philadelphia in 1791 as minister plenipotentiary to the United States, the first to hold that position. Previously he had been secretary to David Hartley in Paris." "05150","Lewis Littlepage, 1762-1802, a Virginian, was for a time a protégé of John Jay. In 1786 he became chamberlain to the King of Poland." "05290","For Sabin 3955, read 3855." "05340","
Rufus King did receive the manuscript returned to him by Jefferson on February 17, 1804. The letter is endorsed by King:
Mr Jefferson
Feb. 17, 1804
M. S. of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
Recd Feb. 22.
On April 28, 1821, the following notice appeared in the National Intelligencer (Washington): A small work in manuscript, entitled ''Bacon's Rebellion'', has been secretly taken out of the Library of Congress. It is a small octavo vol. in the hand writing of Mr. Jefferson, and bound in calf. There have also disappeared in the same way, but at a more remote period, a small collection of curious collections of penmanship, by a young lady of Salem; and a work in p. 4to by Cotton Mather, of some antiquity and great rarity, on the celebrated Witchcraft delusion of New England. All the above works had the private mark of Mr Jefferson, T. J. on the lower margin, and the Library labels inside and out. Information as to where they may be found is desired and will be thankfully received. G. Watterston, Librarian U. S. Library.
The manuscript described under no. 534 is listed in the Library of Congress Handbook of Manuscripts (1918), page 506, no. 27.
It should be noted that Mathew's name is sometimes written Matthew." "05440","
Peregrine Fitzhugh, 1759-1811, a friend of Jefferson, was aide to the President. He was a Virginian but moved to Geneva, New York, where he died.
William Wirt, 1772-1834, lawyer, married the daughter of George Gilmer; after the latter's death in 1799 Wirt moved to Richmond and became Clerk to the House of Delegates. He was one of Jefferson's lawyers in the Batture case. Wirt was the author of The British Spy, a copy of which is entered in Jefferson's manuscript catalogue, but which was not sold with his library to Congress." "05570","James L. Edwards was a newspaper editor in Boston. In 1811 he was the editor of The Scourge and in 1812 of The Satirist. Previously he had edited the North Carolina Journal and the Virginia Mercury." "05780","For Merewether, read Meriwether." "05850","The number, inserted in error, should be deleted." "05990","Levi Lincoln, 1782-1868, lawyer and politician of Worcester, Massachusetts, was a Jeffersonian Republican." "05990","
The headings are quotations from the 1815 Library of Congress Catalogue, and should have been placed in the middle of the page, in 8-point roman letter, as are all the quotations from that Catalogue.
In 599, in the letter to Levi Lincoln, for Jefferson mentioned in this paper, read Jefferson mentioned this paper.
Following no. 602 (page 284, col. 2): The first newspaper cited by Jefferson should read Fenno's Gazette." "06110","For Council of Trent, read Council of Florence." "06220","STC W1560." "06260","STC S66." "06270","
STC S4927.
Vol. I., page 297: Hosea Humphrey, 1757-1818, physician, was in early life a saddlemaker in Providence. Later he moved to Norfolk, Connecticut. He was the author of a dissertation on fire, published in Providence in 1814." "06330","Burnet. The name Gualt. should be followed by a period, not a comma." "06500","The date of the capture of Kirwan's library was September 5, 1780." "06600","For 644, read 649." "06680","
Peyroux de La Coudreniere (not Coudroniere) was the author of the tracts listed under his name in the Index. These tracts were issued with the initials of the author only on the title page, the full name being supplied by Jefferson. The author was probably the same Henri (or Enrique) Peyroux de la Coudreniere to whom Jefferson wrote the letter on July 3, 1783, quoted in the account of the Lewis and Clark expedition (Vol. IV, page 336). In the Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress is a document in Jefferson's handwriting reading as follows:
Don Enrique Peyroux de la Coudrèniere
cidevant Commandant de Ste. Genevieve en Louisiane
Ste. Genevieve 1000. free persons
500. slaves
St. Louis 2000. free persons
no slaves
Another tract by the same author, Mémoire sur les sept especes d'hommes, was at one time in Jefferson's library, and was sold at auction on April 8, 1829, part of lot no. 173. This tract is now in the library of the University of Michigan.
Vol. I, page 323: William Johnson was born in 1771 in Charleston, S. C., and died in Brooklyn in 1834. As a jurist he opposed Jefferson's Embargo laws, but remained on friendly terms with him, and in 1826 published an Eulogy on Thomas Jefferson. Johnson was a member of the American Philosophical Society." "06890","Wilson Cary Nicholas, 1761-1820, Virginia Congressman, United States Senator, and Governor of Virginia. A close friend of Jefferson, Nicholas consulted him on the books on agriculture to be purchased for the Library of Congress. His bankruptcy and death caused him to default on a twenty-thousand-dollar note signed by himself and Jefferson, resulting in the bankruptcy of the latter. His daughter was the wife of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Jefferson's grandson." "06900","
It is probable that this book was never received by Congress after the sale. Jefferson wrote in a letter to Samuel H. Smith, dated from Monticello October 29, 1814, during the negotiations for the sale:
The collection has not been revised since my return from Europe. during my absence from home it has been open to limited uses, and I have occasionally found books missing. some of these may only be misplaced, but some are probably lost. I should mention that there are two entered in the catalogue which I do not possess, but meaning to import them immediately, I entered them while writing the catalogues; the war however supervening prevented my importing them. these are the Geoponics, Gr. Lat. & an English translation of them lately published." "07290","
The Library of Congress has a copy of a broadside headed: A Supplementary note on the mould board described in a letter to Sir John Sinclair, of March 23, 1798, inserted in the American Philosophical Transactions, vol. 4, and in Maese's Domestic Encyclopedia voce Plough, I column, with a woodcut illustration, and the printed signature Th: Jefferson at the foot. This copy is endorsed in ink, not in Jefferson's handwriting: entd. Th: Jefferson, Feb. 1805. See Evans 3394, who locates this copy only.
Jefferson mentioned this mouldboard in a letter to the comte de Volney in Paris, dated from Washington, February 11, 1806 (LC 27398):
. . . annually a newspaper paragraph tells me, with some details, that the society of agriculture of Paris had thought a mould board of my construction worthy their notice, & mr Dupont confirms it in a letter, but not specifying anything particular. I send him a model with an advantageous change in the form, in which however the principle is rigorously the same. I mention this to you lest he should have left France for America and I notice it no otherwise lest there should have been any error in the information." "07400","The compiler of the Biblioteca Georgica was M. A. Lastri, not Pietro Leopoldo, to whom Lastri dedicated his work." "07470","The information as to the arrangement of these tracts into volumes was obtained from the Library of Congress 1831 Catalogue, and should not have been printed in the italic letter used for Jefferson's own writings." "07680","Robert R. Livingston, 1746-1813, statesman, diplomat and agriculturalist. His political career closed in 1804 on his resignation of his position of Minister to France. Livingston was the founder and first President of the American Academy of Fine Arts. Robert R. Livingston was the brother of Edward Livingston, whom Jefferson fought in the Batture case; see no. 3501." "07870","Jean Antoine Claude Chaptal's name should be so written." "07890","William Drayton, 1732-1790, jurist of South Carolina, was Chairman of the South Carolina Agricultural Society." "07940","George William Erving, 1769-1850, diplomat, was born in Boston. He was introduced to Jefferson by Samuel Adams and held diplomatic posts under both Jefferson and Madison. Erving was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He spent some time in London as the agent to take care of the claims of American seamen." "07950","In the last note, the date should read December 16, 1809." "08060","Randolph on Gardening, 18° was bound for Jefferson by John March on June 7, 1803 (Huntington)." "08290","
In Jefferson's letter to the Rev. James Madison, column 2, 6 lines from the bottom, the word is fluid, not stuid.
James Madison, 1749-1812, President of William and Mary College, became in 1790 the first Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia." "08310","The purchase price was five dollars, the bill receipted on April 6, 1802 (Huntington)." "08340","In the letter from Adet to Jefferson, the first phrase in the penultimate line should read: preuve de l'attachement." "08530","For Not Ferguson, read Not in Ferguson." "08660","STC S442. The STC has no entry for the first edition." "08850","STC R1560. The first edition with this title was printed in London by Peter Cole in 1655. The only copy of the edition of 1663 located in STC is that in Edinburgh University." "08880","Alexander Selkirk, 1676-1721, the prototype of Robinson Crusoe, was of Scottish birth. In 1703 he joined Captain Dampier's privateering expedition to the South Seas [see no. 4145]. Selkirk was on the Cinque Ports, Captain Thomas Stradling in command, when it put into Juan Fernandez in September 1704. Owing to a quarrel with Stradling, Selkirk remained on the island, until January 1709, when he was rescued by Captain Woodes Rogers on the Duke, with Dampier on board as the pilot. In addition to Robinson Crusoe, Selkirk was the hero of Cowper's Lines on Solitude, beginning ''I am monarch of all I survey.''" "09030","
William Eustis, 1753-1825, physician and statesman of Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts. Eustis, a Jeffersonian in politics, was for a time Governor of Massachusetts.
Spencer Roane, 1762-1822, Virginia jurist and political writer, was made a judge of the General Court in 1789. He was the founder of the Richmond Enquirer, of which his cousin Thomas Ritchie became the editor. Roane married the daughter of Patrick Henry. Jefferson's letter to him quoted in this number and dated July 18, 1822, was written during Roane's last illness. He died within two months, on September 4." "09160","For De Matrimonio, read Cocchi, Del Matrimonio." "09180","In the title, for Litchfield, Kt., read Lichfield, Kt." "09560","The date of Jefferson's letter to William Smith was February 19, 1791." "09860","
This is in the manuscript catalogue, where it is entered by Jefferson in his chapter 40, Orations: The Boylston prize dissertations, by Shatluck. 8[???]. This is chapter 44 in the 1815 Catalogue, and the unnumbered entry reads: [The Boylstor [sic] Prize Dissertations, by Shattuck, 8vo] ante C. 10, No. 87. The book may have been transferred to Chapter 10, Medicine, by Jefferson in his later manuscript catalogue.
The Boylston academic foundations in Harvard University were founded by Ward Nicolas Boylston, a relative of John Adams; see no. 4659. Those in the Medical School were in honor of Zabdiel Boylston, the first to introduce the practice of inoculation for smallpox into Colonial America." "09880","Henry Wheaton, 1785-1848, a native of Providence, was a jurist, a diplomat, and an expert in international law. In 1812 he was the editor of the National Advocate in New York. In 1825 he was sent as chargé d'affaires to Denmark, and in 1835 he held the same position in Berlin." "09900","In Jefferson's letter, for instuence, read influence." "09930","This tract is listed by Jefferson in his chapter on Physico-Mathematics, no. 28 in the manuscript catalogue, and 27 in the 1815 Catalogue. See no. 3773." "09980","
James Blair, 1655-1743, was the founder and the first President of William and Mary College.
Vol. I, page 456: Harry Innes, 1752-1816, Federal District Judge for Kentucky. For letters between Innes and Jefferson see no. 3225." "10220","The citation from the 1831 Catalogue should read folio, not volio." "10230","STC W2880." "10240","Louis Guillaume Otto was chargé des affaires de France in New York." "10270","
In Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, the references to Buffon's Oiseaux do not appear in the first edition privately printed in Paris. The table in that edition contains only Catesby's designation, the Linnaean, and the popular names. Buffon is first added in Stockdale's London edition, 1787.
In the Jefferson Papers in the Massachusetts Historical Society (which contain Jefferson's autograph draft of the Notes on Virginia) are 4 pages written by Jefferson headed: Birds and other animals of Virginia undescribed by Catesby & annotations on some of his articles.
The Bollings were closely related to the Jeffersons through the marriage of Jefferson's sister to John Bolling. The first Bolling, Robert, to emigrate from Yorkshire to America arrived in 1660 and married Jane Rolph, the granddaughter of Pocahontas." "10350","
Edward Wotton, 1492-1555, English physician and naturalist, is said to have been the first English physician to make a systematic study of natural history.
Conrad Gesner, 1516-1565, professor of Zurich, was acquainted with Wotton's work, and noticed it in his own books.
Thomas Penny, d. 1589, English botanist, entomologist, and clergyman. He assisted Conrad Gesner and helped in the arranging of his plants and other collections after his death. Penny was acquainted with Moffett, who after the death of Penny acquired the drawings of butterflies made by Gesner." "10360","STC T3598." "10430","
Hugh Williamson, 1735-1819, statesman and scientist, was born in Pennsylvania, studied medicine at Edinburgh and elsewhere, and became a member of the American Philosophical Society. Williamson was one of the original trustees of the University of North Carolina and was a trustee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and of the University of New York. He was also the founder of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York.
Gilbert White, 1720-1793, English naturalist, was born in Selborne, Hampshire. The Natural History of Selborne was first published in 1789." "10500","In the author's letter to Jefferson, for do mon tendre dévouement, read de mon tendre dévouement." "10580","In the title, for Pofessoris, read Professoris." "10610","Jefferson's copy was bound in 2 volumes, in calf, gilt, by John March on July 10, 1803, cost $1.25 (Huntington)." "10680","This book was purchased in 1785, not 1875." "10730","
Persoon himself wrote to Jefferson concerning this book from Paris on December 15, 1807, six days before the date of David Bailie Warden's letter saying he was sending the book:
C'est comme à l'envi que les deux mondes s'empressent de vous faire hommage des productions de l'esprit et des arts qui tendent à illustrer la destinée de l'esprit humaine.
Permettez, Monsieur le Président, que je joigne mes foibles accens aux acclamations universelles qui vous decernent le titre de Protecteur des Lettres, en vous fesant offrande d'un exemplaire d'un ouvrage sur la Botanique qui semble devoir vous interesser comme savant et comme chef d'une grande Nation à qui rien échappe de ce qui peut aggrandir la somme du bonheur public.
Jefferson replied from Washington on July 15:
I recieved safely through the good offices of mr Warden the copy of your Synopsis which you were so kind as to send me. For this elegant Manuel of all our Botanical knolege accept my thanks. I have lived and read long enough to set a just value on that precious style of composition which wastes none of our time with useless matter. the compactness too of the typography maintains with superior beauty the character of the work, and does honor even to the nineteenth century . . .
(Both letters are in the Department of Research, Colonial Williamsburg.)" "10740","For a note on Dr Bentley, see no. 1695." "10770","John Fraser, 1750-1811, Scottish botanist living in London, made several visits to North America in search of new species. He also made visits to Russia for the same purpose. Fraser was a fellow of the Linnean Society, to which his herbarium was later given by his son." "10780","The passage in the letter to Francis Hopkinson should be deleted. The reference is not to this book." "10880","
The original of Jefferson's letter to Muhlenberg, March 16, 1814, is in the Huntington Library.
Vol. I, page 496: John P. Emmet was professor of chemistry and materia medica at the University of Virginia." "11010","In the title, for Observation read Observations." "11060","
John Armstrong, 1758-1843, soldier and diplomat, was elected to the United States Senate in 1800. In 1804 he was appointed Minister to France, where he remained until 1810. In 1813 he was made Secretary of War.
Vol. I, page 504: Tracts on Education. For 1814, read 1815." "11090","
The title of this book reads as follows: An Essay on the Government of Children, under Three General Heads: viz. Health, Manners and Education. By James Nelson, Apothecary. The first edition was published in London in 1753 in octavo. An edition was published in Dublin in 1763 in duodecimo, which may have been the one in Jefferson's library.
James Armstrong, 1710-1794, a London apothecary." "11250","Joseph Carrington Cabell, 1778-1856, was the principal coadjutor of Thomas Jefferson in founding the University of Virginia." "11260","Cadmus is entered by Jefferson in his manuscript catalogue, as the first entry in his chapter 45, Criticism. It is reentered without number in the Library of Congress 1815 Catalogue as the first entry in Chapter 43, Criticism--Languages." "11270","STC S3079A. This is the only copy located in STC." "11300","This work was delivered to Congress. It was one of the three books advertised as having been stolen from the Library of Congress in the National Intelligencer, April 28, 1821, by George Watterston, ''Librarian U. S. Library.'' See Vol. V, no. 543." "11310","This edition is not in Beaumont, A Bibliography of Dancing, whose first listed edition is the Bodoni edition of 1801. In his note to the Bodoni edition Bissainthe writes: Ouvrage composé en 1789; rarissisme; fut, dit-on imprimé en 12 exemplaires; on ne connait plus la Ière éd. publiée en 1797, prob. à Paris." "11510","For Bibliothèque du Dépot de la Guerre Catalogue I. II. 63, read I. 11. 63." "11670","STC R170." "11760","This work was deleted by Jefferson from this chapter and reentered by him in his chapter 32, Architecture. It is in the Library of Congress 1815 Catalogue, chapter 30; see no. 4205." "11780","
Jefferson's copy was sent to him by the author, to whom he wrote on March 13, 1807:
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Johnson for his book on Pisé building which he was so kind as to send him, and which he doubts not will be useful to the public as well in that article as the others which it embraces. these as well as the other subjects will be sufficiently worthy of mr Johnson's attention, & furnish sufficient useful matter for any future additions he may chuse to make. without foreseeing that it will be in the power of Th: J. to contribute any useful information to mr Johnson's stock, he will always be ready to do it when the leisure of retirement shall give him the means." "12060","
James Barbour, 1775-1842, Virginia statesman, became Governor of Virginia in 1812. He was a follower of Jefferson in politics.
For Merewether, read Meriwether, i. e., Captain William D. Meriwether, a neighbor of Jefferson." "12080","In the account of Krafft at the end, for 1824, read 1804." "12200","In Jefferson's headline, the words de l'eau should not have been repeated." "12230","This work is not listed in Evans, and no copy has been traced. It seems possible that the author may have sent his work to Jefferson in manuscript." "12320","
This was a presentation copy from the author, to whom Jefferson wrote from Washington on February 5, 1809:
I received duly your letter of Sep. 11. and with it a copy of your valuable vocabulaire de marine for which I pray you to receive my particular thanks. I recall with pleasure the transient gratification I had in your company here, and am happy that the short stay you made among us has impressed you favorably for our country . . .
(Huntington Library. This was copied from the Bixby Collection.)" "12350","
In Jefferson's letter, first line, for you ideas, read your ideas.
Vol. II, page 1: Duchesse d'Anville. Jefferson was a friend of both the dowager Duchesse, the mother of the Duc de La Rochefoucauld d'Anville, and her daughter-in-law Rosalie." "12390","Edward Everett, 1794-1865, Unitarian clergyman, statesman, orator, and teacher, was educated at Harvard University, where he eventually occupied the chair of Greek literature. He was a member of Congress from 1825 to 1835 and held office as Secretary of State." "12400","STC S5557." "12410","
The Entresol Club was founded by the Abbé Alari in 1724, and, owing to its influence on public opinion, was dissolved by Cardinal Fleury in 1751. The Club took its name from its place of meeting, in the entresol of the Hotel du Président Rénault in the Place Vendôme, where the abbé made his residence. The Club formed the embryo of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques; it met weekly, and among the members were Montesquieu, d'Argenson, the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, and other distinguished politicians and economists.
Pierre-Joseph Alari (or Alary), 1689-1770, the founder, was a French economist." "12420","
The set of the Oeuvres de Helvétius in petit format mentioned in the notes was bound for Jefferson in calf, gilt, by John March, on May 11, 1803, cost $6.25. (Huntington Library.)
Thomas Law, 1756-1834, the son of the Bishop of Carlisle, was born in Cambridge, England. He came to the United States in 1794 and eventually settled in Washington, D. C. He was the author of pamphlets in his own name and over the pseudonym Homo." "12440","Robert Walsh, 1784-1859, journalist and littérateur. His life of Benjamin Franklin was published in Delaplaine's Repository." "12460","Marie Jean Pierre Flourens, 1794-1867, French physiologist. His Recherches experimentiales sur les propriétés et les fonctions du Système nerveux . . . was first published in 1824. It had been previously read as a paper at the Athenée in Paris in 1821." "12500","STC W1726." "12600","Jefferson's statement in his letter to John Adams that Diderot was the author of Le Bon Sens was an error. The author was Holbach; see no. 1292." "12650","Francis Eppes, 1801-1881, grandson of Thomas Jefferson, was the son of Maria Jefferson and John Wayles Eppes." "12680","STC S4985." "12860","
The Robinhood Society was a debating club which met every Monday evening at the Robin Hood and Little John in Butcher Row, St. Clements, London. (See no. 419.)
John Noorthouck, 1740?-1816, English author. For his reputed authorship of The Man after God's own Heart, see John Russell Smith's Book Catalogue, London, April, 1852." "13110","Biponti editions, known also as Deux-Pont and Zwei-Brücken editions, were editions of the Classics published originally at Deux-Ponts, and later at Strassburg. Fifty volumes in all were published." "13360","STC P2132." "13570","STC T2307." "13620","A copy of the edition of 1700 in folio, initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T, is in the library of Dr. Joseph E. Fields, of Joliet, Illinois." "13820","Bissainthe 5140." "13840","Bissainthe 5239. His note reads: ''Des 18 députés à l'Assemblée Nationale, choisis par les planteurs de St.-Domingue, six seulement furent admis à siéger dans cette Assemblée; la dernière lettre, du Hâvre, du 9 avril 1790, montre qu'en dépit du décret de l'Ass. Nat. les hommes de couleur ne pouvaient pas aller hors de St.-Domingue comme ils voulaient.''" "13870","Bissainthe 7569." "13880","Bissainthe 6043." "13900","Bissainthe 7545." "13910","Bissainthe 7021." "13920","Bissainthe 7998." "13930","Bissainthe 7546." "13980","
Bissainthe 6037 describes an edition ''chez Waradam, Lib., MDCCVII.'' which seems to be a misprint for this edition, which is not described by him.
Grégoire refers to George Imlay. Actually his name was Gilbert Imlay (c. 1754-1828?); he was born in New Jersey, and fought in the Revolutionary War on the loyalist side. His A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America was first published in London in 1792." "14000","Thomas Pym Cope, 1768-1854, Quaker merchant and philanthropist of Philadelphia. Cope was one of the founders and was the first President of the Mercantile Library and of Philadelphia's Board of Trade." "14160","
Jefferson sent a copy of this work to Edmund Randolph, with a letter (LC 2533) dated from Paris, Sep. 20, 1785:
Being in your debt for ten volumes of Buffon, I have endeavored to find something that would be agreeable to you to receive in return. I therefore send you by way of Havre a dictionary of law Natural & municipal in 13. vols 4to. called le Code de l'humanité. it is published by Felice, but written by him & several other authors of established reputation. it is an excellent work. I do not mean to say that it answers fully to it's title. that would have required fifty times the volume. it wants many articles which the title would induce us to seek in it. but the articles of which it does treat are well written. it is better than the voluminous dictionnaire diplomatique, & better also than the same branch of the Encyclopedie methodique." "14210","STC S2431." "14290","Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803, Virginia jurist and Revolutionary patriot, was born in Caroline County and was closely related to the Taylors of Caroline." "14440","Copy purchased from Dufour. It seems more probable that the copy supplied by Dufour was the one imported by Reibelt, and not an additional copy." "14710","
William W. Woodward, the publisher, first wrote to Jefferson concerning this publication on February 28, 1804:
I have taken the liberty, which I should not have done, had I not felt confident of your approbation.--In a package, which I send by this mail, you will find a sheet and Proposal of Dr Scott's highly improved and admired edition of the Holy Bible, the first Volume of which will make its appearance the last of next month--and others to be published as fast as they can be received from Europe. . .
(Huntington.)" "14980","Peter Carr was the son of Dabney Carr, Jefferson's brother-in-law." "15030","STC U165." "15080","The lines of Greek quoted by Jefferson are taken from the edition of the Psalms by Duport and Buchanan, London 1742; see no. 4399." "15210","
J. B. Moussieu himself wrote to Jefferson concerning Gazzera's books in a letter dated from Charleston, le 14 Septembre, 1809:
Monsieur le Président,
J'ai l'honneur d'informer, votre excellence, que je viens de recevoir ici, un paquet à votre addresse, qui m'est parvenu de France par la voie du Ship mentor, ce sont divers ouvrages de Mr. Henry de Gazzera membre de plusieurs académies, qui vous prie d'en agréer l'hommage.
J'aurois desiré, Monsieur le président, que la distance de cette ville m'eut permis de vous les présenter moi même, dans l'impossibilité de m'acquitter de cette honorable Commission, j'ai l'honneur de vous prévenir que j'ai remis ce matin le le paquet au Capitaine Levin Jones de la goélette Wolf de Baltimore, qui m'a assuré quil vous sera exactement remis . . .
Jefferson replied from Monticello on November 28:
I return you thanks for your attention to the packet of books which mr Gazzera has been so kind as to send me, & which are safely recieved. should you be in correspondence with him, it will be an additional obligation if you will be so kind as to convey to him the expression of my thanks and respect. this I shall also do myself by letter to him but the present disordered state of the ocean makes it prudent to multiply the chances of making any communication which has to cross that . . .
(Both letters in the Huntington Library.)" "15240","Jefferson's copy was bound in calf, gilt, by John March on July 10, 1803. (Huntington.)" "15270","Claudius Buchanan, 1716-1815, was a chaplain in Bengal and vice-provost of the College of Fort William. His Christian Researches in Asia was first printed in Cambridge, England, in 1811, so that Jefferson's note in Priestley's book must have been written after that date." "15390","Dabney Carr, 1773-1837, was Jefferson's brother-in-law, the husband of his sister, Martha Jefferson. Dabney Carr had a son of the same name, who was Jefferson's nephew and the brother of Peter Carr, 1770-1815, letters to whom will be found in this catalogue." "15410","The Petits Savoyards was an organization originally founded in 1666 by Etienne Joly, a native of Dijon, to assist the poor Savoyards in Paris." "15480","Thomas Leiper, 1745-1825, was born in Scotland, and emigrated to Colonial America in 1763. He fought on the side of the colonists in the Revolution and settled in Philadelphia where he built turnpikes, tramways, etc. He became a director of the Bank of Pennsylvania and was one of the founders of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia." "15690","The Socinian doctrine took its name from its founder, Fausto Paolo -Sozzini, 1539-1604, a native of Siena. Sozzini's theological doctrines largely affected the theology of the Orthodox Protestants in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and paved the way for Unitarianism, which eventually displaced the Socinian doctrine." "15870","STC T784." "15960","By his will, the Hon. Robert Boyle, 1627-1691, founded and endowed with £50 a year, the Boyle lectures for the defense of Christianity against unbelievers." "15970","Henry Dodwell, 1641-1711, famous scholar, theologian, and non-juror, was born in Dublin of English parents. The work referred to in this title is An epistolary Discourse, proving from the Scriptures and the first Fathers, that the Soul is a Principle naturally mortal, but immortalized actually by the pleasure of God, first printed in London in 1706. Several clergymen wrote answers in addition to Samuel Clarke." "16240","With regard to Lady Pakington's supposed authorship of this work, see no. 4853, where it is explained that the work was ascribed to her by George Hickes, who was living under her roof at the time." "16530","The original of Joseph Moss White's letter to Jefferson is in the Huntington Library. White was in the Connecticut House of Representatives in the years 1786, 1788, and 1794." "16610","Richard Rush, 1780-1859, the second son of Benjamin Rush, was a lawyer, diplomat, and statesman. He was for a time Secretary of State, and later was Ambassador at the Court of St. James." "17280","STC W2776. This is the first edition of the second part. The first part was printed in 1683." "17400","STC T1952." "17590","
This book was bound originally by John March (LC 27979).
Vol. II, page 210: David Campbell was from Campbella, near Knoxville, Tennessee." "17860","STC R1872." "17960","Sir John Randolph, 1693-1736/7, King's attorney of Virginia, was born at Turkey Island in Henrico County, Virginia. He became a celebrated lawyer, and was Speaker of the House of Burgesses. He collected a remarkable library, which he willed to his son Peyton Randolph; and many of the books and manuscripts came later into the library of Thomas Jefferson. With the intention of writing a history of the laws of Virginia, he gathered many documents and manuscripts on the subject. These were later used by his nephew, William Stith, q. v." "18060","John Tyler, 1747-1813, Revolutionary patriot and judge, was Governor of Virginia from 1808 to 1811. He was the father of John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States." "18090","STC S4925." "18100","STC R292. According to the STC, this was the 24th edition." "18120","Philip Ludwell, fl. 1660-1704, was the colonial Governor of Carolina." "18240","
Richard Bland, 1710-1776, statesman. In a letter to William Wirt, dated from Monticello, August 5, 1815, Jefferson thus described him:
. . . Your characters are inimitably & justly drawn. I am not certain if more might not be said of Colo. Richard Bland. he was the most learned & logical man of those who took prominent lead in public affairs, profound in Constitutional lore, a most ungraceful speaker (as were Peyton Randolph & Robinson in a remarkable degree) he wrote the first pamphlet on the nature of the connection with Gr. Britain, which had any pretension to accuracy of view on that subject, but it was a singular one. he would set out sound principles, pursue them logically till he found them leading to the precipice which we had to leap, start back alarmed then resume his ground, go over it in another direction, be led again by the correctness of his reasoning to the same place, and again back about and try other processes to reconcile right and wrong, but finally left his reader & himself bewildered between the steady index of the compass in their hand, and the phantasm to which it seemed to point. still there was more sound matter in his pamphlet than in the celebrated Farmer's letters which were really but an ignis fatuus, misleading us from true principles . . .
Jefferson bought a number of books from Bland's library after the latter's death." "18320","STC V636." "18640","George Mason, 1725-1792, Revolutionary statesman and constitutionalist. Mason was the author of a draft of the Virginia Bill of Rights which was used by Jefferson in writing the Declaration of Independence." "18690","William H. Cabell, 1772-1853, was a brother of Joseph Carrington Cabell, q. v. He studied law at the College of William and Mary and in 1818 was one of the commissioners appointed to select a site for the University of Virginia. In 1805 he was elected Governor of Virginia. The initial H in his name was inserted by him to distinguish him from other William Cabells." "18730","In the note it is stated that this edition of the second part is not in Evans. This is probably an error. The imprint is not dated on any one of the three title-pages. The second and third sessions are printed with continuous signatures and pagination, and the date 1791 occurs many times in the third session. It seems possible, however, that the second session was printed in 1790, and would be therefore Evans 22952." "18800","STC R757." "18920","STC M3029." "18940","STC R293." "18950","STC R1717." "18980","STC V353." "18990","STC W2962." "19030","STC R759." "19040","This title should read Placita generalia & specialia. STC P2334." "19070","STC R436. The STC enters this work under Joseph Read. The name John was obtained from Arber's Term Catalogues, Index, Vol. II. Sweet & Maxwell and Marvin give the initial only, as do any entries found in any other library catalogues. No record was found in any Middle Temple catalogue consulted." "19100","STC W113. The only copy cited in the STC is that in the Thomason Collection in the British Museum. The copy in the Jefferson collection has been rebound and all signs of its Jefferson provenance have disappeared (the signatures do not reach to I). The book was included in the Jefferson library owing to its William Temple provenance, several books from his library being in the Jefferson collection." "19160","STC P3146." "19290","STC T3173." "19530","STC P3917." "19450","This book came to Jefferson most probably with his purchase of the library of Peyton Randolph. The life of the author at the beginning is in the same hand as that in the other books from that library, probably that of Sir John Randolph." "19620","
Isaac A. Coles, of Albemarle County, Virginia, was a brother of Edward Coles, and a great friend of Jefferson, for whom he acted for a time as secretary. Coles was a lieutenant colonel in the Virginia militia.
George Morgan, 1743-1810, Indian agent. He was visited by Aaron Burr in an attempt to enlist his help and that of his sons in Burr's Western scheme. Morgan refused and later testified against Burr at his trial." "19730","STC W3021." "20010","STC T553." "20030","STC P2527." "20110","STC S4929." "20280","STC S778." "20380","STC W2964." "20420","STC P2943." "20430","The title Sir should be deleted." "20450","STC P226." "20570","STC S6099." "20590","STC S3757, S3758." "20790","For Herbert Crofts, read Sir Herbert Croft." "20980","John Elihu Hall, 1783-1829, of Baltimore, Maryland, lawyer, editor, and author. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and in politics he was a Federalist." "21160","Jefferson bought two copies of this pamphlet from S. W. Smith, at two dollars for the two copies." "21200","
Cartouche, 1693-1721, the head of a band of French robbers. His real name was Louis-Dominique Bourguinon, and he was eventually assassinated (''roué vif'').
Blackbeard was a pirate, killed in 1718 by Robert Maynard. In contemporary documents his name is given as Edward Thatch or Teach.
For Joseph Carrington Cabell, see no. 1125." "21350","The Speaker of the House of Representatives was Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg, 1750-1801, Delegate from Pennsylvania Teach." "21380","The serial number should be 2138, not 1238." "21600","Pierpont Edwards, 1750-1826, lawyer, politician, and jurist, was the youngest son of Jonathan Edwards. In 1800 he took an active part in organizing the Jeffersonian Republicans in Connecticut, and in 1806 he was appointed by Jefferson judge of the district court of Connecticut." "21630","Joseph Galloway, 1731-1803, colonial statesman. See no. 3134." "21730","For Edward Wingate read Edmund Wingate." "21770","William Charles Coles Claiborne, 1775-1817, Governor of Louisiana. For other references to him in this catalogue, see the Index." "21840","STC S1265." "21870","This work was entered by Jefferson in his manuscript catalogue, in his chapter 44, Oratory." "22060","STC Z25." "22190","Alexander Hodgdon Stevens, 1789-1869, New York surgeon. Dr. Stevens was the founder in 1865 of the Stevens Triennial Prize in the College of Physicians at New York for the best essay on a medical subject." "22260","Louis Rene Edouard, Cardinal de Rohan, 1743-1803, became a Cardinal in 1778 and Archbishop of Strassburg in the following year. At the trial in connection with the Diamond Necklace in 1786 Rohan was acquitted." "23030","Madame Palivae de Corny was the wife of the philosopher Louis Dominique Ethis de Corny. She was a friend of Maria Cosway, Angelica Church, and others of Jefferson's circle in France." "23110","Bissainthe 7179." "23210","At the end of the note, delete the reference to no. 1130." "23270","
The abbé P. L. Lefevre de la Roche published an edition of the Oeuvres complètes d'Helvétius in 1795, in 14 volumes, and of Montesquieu in 12 volumes in the same year.
Justus Erich Bollman, 1769-1821, came to the United States in 1796. Jefferson offered him several consulates. Later he became the agent of Aaron Burr and was tried before Chief Justice John Marshall in the Supreme Court.
John Randolph (page 8) of Roanoke, 1773-1833, Virginia statesman and orator. His opposition to the Embargo and to the War of 1812 caused many attacks on him." "23590","Jefferson's reference to Wishaupt was probably to Adam Weishaupt, 1748-1850, German philosopher and author and the founder in 1776 of the Society of the Illuminati, a secret society with severe rules, which included blind obedience by the members to their superiors." "23880","Macdonald and Hargreaves no. 29." "23570","William Ellis was a professor at King's College, Aberdeen, Scotland." "24390","Jefferson bought these Almanachs from Froullé during his residence in Paris. After his return to the United States they may have been sent to him by William Short. A letter from Louis Ramond to William Short, dated Lundi, 17 Jer. mentions: ''J'enverrai l'almanach Royal à M. Jefferson.'' (Short Papers, LC.)" "24590","
Jefferson's copy was sent to him by the author, who wrote on September 11, 1787:
L'importance de l'objet des Reflexions cy jointe m'a fait esperer que vous voudriez bien les honorer de votre attention.
Les etats unis que vous Representez ont le plus grand interet de ne pas tomber dans l'abisme ou se trouvent aujourdhui plusieurs des principales puissances de l'Europe, faute d'avoir prévu les suites nécessaires de l'accumulation de leurs dettes permanentes; et vous deviendrez je crois convaincu que le seul moyen d'y pourvoir infailliblement est celui indiqué par les reflexions et le memoire cy joints.
Si cet ouvrage pouvait etre de quelqu'utilité a vos concitoyens, comme j'espere qu'il sera tot ou tard à la france, ce serait pour moi un dedommagement bien precieux des travaux que m'a fait entreprendre le zele le plus pur et le plus ardent pour les veritables interets des nations.
(Colonial Williamsburg.)" "24620","In the imprint, for Lgvd. read Lvgd." "25130","Emmanuel Joseph Siéyès, 1748-1836, French abbé and statesman, was one of the chief theorists of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era. He was the author of the pamphlet Qu'est ce que le tiers état? Tout. Qu'a-t-il jusqu' à présént dans l'ordre politique? Rien. Que demandet-il? Devenir quelque chose, which resulted in his election as the last of the deputies of Paris to the States General. Siéyès voted for the death of the King." "25300","Bissainthe 7606 suggests as the place of printing Paris?" "25310","Bissainthe 5545 records the name of the author as Du Buc." "25320","Not in Bissainthe." "25330","Bissainthe 7139." "25340","Bissainthe 7653: ''Attribué à Ch. Lesmesle, négociant à Bordeaux.''" "25350","Bissainthe 5546." "25360","Not in Bissainthe." "25370","Not in Bissainthe." "25380","Not in Bissainthe." "25390","Bissainthe 7873." "25400","Not in Bissainthe." "25410","Bissainthe 4608." "25480","This edition not in Bissainthe." "25470","Lits de justice were extra-ordinary sessions of the Parliament of Paris and of the Provinces, held in the presence of the King. They were attended by various officials, including marshals, governors of provinces, the grand chamberlain, the master of the horse, the provost marshal, and others. The room was arranged in five tiers, in which the participants were seated according to rank, the princes of the blood at the top and the conseillers of Parliament at the bottom." "25560","Bissainthe 6430." "25600","Bissainthe 4744." "25620","Bissainthe 6955." "25630","
Major J. C. Mountflorence sent Jefferson the manuscript with a letter dated from Norfolk, February 1, 1793:
I have the Honor to transmit to you herewith the Manuscript relative to the Events of the French Revolution of last Year--You will find, Sir, that I have been pretty circumstantial respecting what regards the unhappy Marquis De la Fayette: It was the Opinion of a Number of his friends in Paris that the United States of America would probably interfere in his Behalf, & that the Supreme Executive could demand him as a Citizen of those States which he has served with so much Honor & Zeal; they suggested that such Interference would meet with Success in consideration of the friendly terms subsisting between America & Prussia, and that at all Events should it not have the desired effect, it would evince to the World the Gratitude of the United States to their Meritorius Officer. . .
(Colonial Williamsburg)
Concerning Major Mountflorence Jefferson wrote to William Short from Philadelphia on November 16, 1791 (MHS):
The bearer hereof, Majr. Mountflorence, proposing to visit France on his lawful affairs, I take the liberty of recommending him to your attention & good offices. he is a citizen of the state of North Carolina, and of the profession of the law there, and his merits in every respect will do justice to any civilities or services you can render him . . ." "25660","
Jean François St. Lambert, 1717-1803, French poet and philosopher and the lover of the Comtesse d'Houditot, to whom Jefferson sent his respects in his letter to St. Lambert. Jefferson, followed by the compiler, was in error in referring to him as a marquis.
Comtesse d'Houditot, the Julie of Rousseau's Confessions, lived near Paris with her husband and St. Lambert, and held salons as famous as those of Madame Helvetius." "25840","Bissainthe 2584." "26040","Bissainthe 6250." "26780","Not in Bissainthe." "26050","For 2644, read 2671." "26350","For Comte moral, read Compte moral." "26920","The square brackets in Jefferson's headline should be deleted." "27010","the J before the number 145 should be deleted. Jefferson's copy is not in existence." "27140","STC S2428 (under Selden)." "27170","
Allan Ramsay was not the author of this pamphlet, which has always been attributed to him.
Dr. Trevor Colbourn of Pennsylvania State University writes:
''There is no question but that the Historical Essay on the English Constitution was not written by Allan Ramsay. The reasons for this are many: there is virtually nothing in the Historical Essay, in either style or content, that permit a man of Ramsay's historical and political persuasion to be author. It is known that Ramsay wrote An Essay on the English Constitution, published I think in 1766, and my examination of that, compared with the Historical Essay, allows no further doubt on that score. Alistair Smart, in his very fine biography, The Life and Art of Allan Ramsay, makes the same point more extensively in a long footnote, p. 141, also referring to the qualms raised earlier by Herbert Butterfield in George III, Lord North, and the People, p. 349n. Smart notes that Ramsay made no claim to the authorship of the Historical Essay, and it is understandable. I would go further than Smart's statement (''almost certainly not by Ramsay'') and insist that the Historical Essay positively was not by Ramsay, and as Dr. Caroline Robbins now suggests, was probably by Obadiah Hulme of Yorkshire.
''Dr. Robbins discovered an inscription in the Historical Essay in the University of Pennsylvania library, indicating that this copy belonged to Joseph Bretland, an Exeter unitarian minister, who mingled in radical circles. Bretland wrote in the book that it was written by Obadiah Hulme, relation to Nathanial Hulme, physician to the Charter House. And Dr. Robbins has since discovered that there was an Obadiah Hulme who, as Bretland suggested, died in 1791; the Gentlemen's Magazine of 1791 reports the death of Obadiah Hulme, author of the Historical Essay. Of course this could have been the same source for Bretland, and might be quite unreliable, but it is the best lead yet. Oddly no contemporary admirers of the Historical Essay, be they Jefferson, Adams or Cartwright, had any idea of the identity of the author.''" "27680","STC T1766A." "27700","STC R947." "27720","For T. Payne, read J. [for John] Payne." "28160","Dr. George Buchanan of Baltimore was born in 1763 and died in 1808." "28230","In the third line from the end, the words ''by Mark'' should be deleted." "28250","The statement that Barlow was introduced to Jefferson by Richard Price is an error. It was Jefferson who introduced Barlow to Price. For the letter of introduction see no. 4302, where it is quoted." "28370","Daniel Isaac Eaton, d. 1814, English republican bookseller and publisher. He was indicted in London for publishing Politics for the People, or a Salmagundy for Swine, and fled to the United States. Returning to England after three years he was imprisoned for publishing The Age of Reason." "28650","Bissainthe 5112." "28790","STC S924." "28830","STC P1905." "28850","STC P1945 (with an unauthorized knighthood)." "28870","STC 2433, with date [1681?]." "28890","STC R2422." "28900","STC P3956; 4071" "28930","
The author of Lex Parliamentaria was William Petyt, the author of The Antient Right of the Commons of England asserted, no. 2885. The initial G stands for Guillaume, i. e. William, in the French language, hence the initial error.
STC P1943 (under P[etyt] G[eorge])." "28990","Jefferson's copy was bound for him by John March on July 21, 1801 (Huntington)." "29140","Colonel Charles Carter, 1707-1764, was a son of Robert (''King'') Carter, of Lancaster County, Virginia. He married Anne, the daughter of William Byrd of Westover." "29200","STC T1991." "29260","STC E890." "29270","Another copy from Jefferson's library, and sold to Congress in 1815, has been discovered among the books discarded as duplicates in 1909. This set is part of that from Reuben Skelton's library; see no. 2928. The volumes are similarly bound in mottled calf, have the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate correctly numbered 220, and Reuben Skelton's bookplate in all the seven volumes. The books are initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in each volume. In addition there are labels on the backs marked J. and a J (for Jefferson) pencilled on the 1815 bookplates." "29280","For Robert Chandler, read Richard Chandler." "29370","STC P1937." "29390","
Sir John Sinclair wrote to Jefferson on March 27, 1789, that he was sending him a copy of the Appendix:
I have requested Mr Hamilton, a Gentleman of information & merit, who will deliver this to you, to take with him to Paris, the appendix to my history of the British Revenue, of which I beg your acceptance . . .
(Pierpont Morgan Library)." "29420","Jefferson bought a copy from William Duane on November 23, 1803, price $7.51." "29930","
That Jefferson had a copy of the first edition is proved by a letter written by him to Richard Price, dated from Paris, February 1, 1785:
The copy of your Observations on the American Revolution which you were so kind as to direct to me came duly to hand, and I should have acknoleged the receipt of it but that I awaited a private conveiance for my letter, having experienced much delay and uncertainty in the posts between this place and London. I have read it with very great pleasure, as have done many others to whom I have communicated it. the spirit which it breathes is as affectionate as the observations themselves are wise and just. I have no doubt it will be reprinted in America and produce much good there. the want of power in the federal head was early perceived, and foreseen to be the flaw in our constitution which might endanger its destruction . . . the apprehensions you express of danger from the want of powers in Congress, led me to note to you this character in our governments, which, since the retreat behind the Delaware, and the capture of Charlestown, has kept my mind in perfect quiet as to the ultimate fate of our union; and I am sure, from the spirit which breathes thro your book, that whatever promises permanence to that will be a comfort to your mind. . .
(Massachusetts Historical Society, Proceedings, Series II, Vol. XVII, page 325.)" "30030","
The second part of the work, in French, collates in eights. The collation should read therefore: 28 leaves in fours, 144 leaves (only) in eights; the second part should have 150 leaves, lacks the first six leaves of sig. N. (pages 193-204).
William Livingston, 1723-1790, was the first Governor of the State of New Jersey." "30210","The Carrington mentioned in Jefferson's letter to James Madison was probably Paul Carrington, Virginia jurist. " "30250","For Sabin 9278, read 9279." "30430","For Sabin 79150, read 97150." "30570","This tract was not initialled by Jefferson. The signatures end at H." "30650","For Sabin 35986, read 35987." "30850","The facsimile reprint by Thomas Perkins Abernethy was taken from the copy in the John Carter Brown Library, not from Jefferson's copy in the Library of Congress." "30970","For Evans 13853, read 13854." "31010","Jean Cavalier, 1681-1740, chief of the Camisards. After the war in the Cevennes Cavalier settled in Dublin and in 1726 published his Memoirs of the Wars of the Cévennes under Colonel Cavalier, written originally in French and translated into English with a dedication to Lord Cartaret." "31050","For Sabin 39170, read Sabin 37910." "31420","For Sabin 94946, read 93936." "31550","For Evans 28312, read 23812." "31600","Elénore François Elie, comte de Moustier, 1751-1817, French diplomat, held a number of important posts, including those of Minister Plenipotentiary in London and Ambassador at Constantinople. He was the author of a number of books." "3166a","
One of the State Papers was the following book:
An Account of Louisiana, being An Abstract of Documents, in the Offices of the Departments of State, and of the Treasury. Duane, printer.
8vo. 26 leaves, the last a blank.
Concerning this, in a letter to Josiah Stoddard Johnston, dated from Monticello, February 13, 1825, Jefferson wrote:
. . . when we acquired Louisiana we were exceedingly uninformed of every thing relating to it. I addressed enquiries to every individual of the country who I thought might give us informn, and I remember that I considered that furnished by Dr. Sibley as distinguished in it's value. at the ensuing Congress I communicated the whole to that body and it was printed and made a large 8.vo the originals, and their printed copy were probably burnt by the British, but the printed copy which I had kept for myself went afterwards to Washington with my library and may there be turned to. it will be found entered in the printed catalogue pa. 104 No. 261. under the title of State papers 1793-1812. 36. v.8.vo the date of the communion Nov. 14. 1803. will point to the particular vol. . .
Josiah Stoddard Johnston, 1784-1833, was born in Connecticut, but after completing his law studies in 1815 he moved to Louisiana, where he set up his practice. He was elected to the first Territorial legislature in 1805 and served until 1812, and subsequently held other public positions. In 1821 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives, and in 1823 he was appointed to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Brown. In 1825 he was elected to the Senate, and he was reelected in 1831." "31680","
The following state papers from Jefferson's library should be added:
Report of the Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States, appointed to prepare and report Articles of Impeachment against William Blount, a Senator of the United States, impeached of High Crimes and Misdemeanors. . . Printed by Order of the House of Representatives. Printed by John Fenno, n. d. [Philadelphia, 1787.]
8vo. 94 leaves including 1 blank; the Appendix begins on the 10th leaf (sig C) with separate pagination.
Evans 34785 (with date 1788).
Original half calf; not initialled by Jefferson; with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate, with Ch 24. No. 261.
With this is bound the following tracts on the same subject:
Further Report from the Committee, appointed on the eighth of July last, to prepare and report Articles of Impeachment against William Blount, a Senator of the United States, Impeached by the House of Representatives, of High Crimes and Misdemeanors. [Philadelphia, 1798.]
2 leaves, with the report of Abel Holden, jr. sworn the 30th day of December, 1797.
Evans 34787.
Letter from the Chevalier d'Yrujo, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, from Spain [Letter from John Phillips Ripley] to the Chairman of the Committee appointed to prepare and report Articles of Impeachment against William Blount, dated January 19, 1798. Philadelphia, January 19, 1798.
2 leaves, caption titles.
Evans 34788.
Further Report of the Committee, appointed on the Eighth July last, to prepare and report Articles of Impeachment against William Blount, a Senator of the United States, impeached by the House of Representatives, of High Crimes and Misdemeanors. 25th January, 1798. [Committed to a Committee of the whole House, on Monday next.] Printed by John Fenno.
6 leaves.
Evans 34792.
As the question whether the House of Representatives have a right to impeach a member of the Senate . . .
2 leaves, signed Constitutionalist, dated December 10, 1797.
Not in Evans. Louden 1972.
Message from the Senate communicating a copy of the Plea, filed by the Counsel in behalf of William Blount. 26th December, 1798, Referred to the Managers appointed to conduct the impeachment against William Blount, with instructions to proceed thereon, as they shall deem adviseable. [Published by order of the House of Representatives.] [Philadelphia: Printed by William Ross, 1798]
2 leaves.
Evans 34791.
Further Report of the Managers appointed to conduct the Impeachment against William Blount. 20th December, 1798, Ordered to lie on the table. [Published by order of the House of Representatives.] [Philadelphia: Printed by William Ross, 1798]
2 leaves.
Evans 34790.
Report, in part, of the Committee, appointed on the 18th instant, To consider what Rules are necessary to be adopted by the Senate, in the trial of William Blount. 20th December, 1798. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Philadelphia: Printed by Way & Groff, No. 48, North Third-Street.
2 leaves.
Evans 34789.
William Blount, 1749-1800, territorial governor of Tennessee, was elected to the United States Senate in 1796. Owing to his financial difficulties he took part in a plan, involving Indians, frontiersmen, and the British fleet, whereby the control of Spanish Florida and Louisiana should be transferred to Great Britain. A letter written by him came into the hands of President Adams, who sent it to Congress. Blount was expelled from the Senate, but his impeachment by the House of Representatives was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction." "31800","
In the note, for William Giles read William Branch Giles. On December 9, 1795, in a letter to Jefferson, Giles wrote:
Mr Randolph's vindication is not yet before the public at full length.--I have by special indulgence been favored with its perusal as far as page 84. the first pages contain all the evidence, and part of his general letter (as he terms it) to the President. The publication will afford an infinite fund of matter for political parties; but its effects upon the public mind, as it respects the President, or the state of parties, I think extremely problematical. It will probably depend upon the management and the activity of the parties themselves.--As to Mr Randolph, there will be no doubt of its effect.--He will be exculpated from the charge of corruption; but will be deemed the most indiscreet of ministers. I will transmit you a copy as soon as it shall appear at full length . . .
Giles wrote to Jefferson again on December 15, and added a postscript to his letter:
Mr Randolph's vindication is promised to us on friday next, on monday it shall be forwarded.
William Branch Giles, 1762-1830, Virginia statesman, was a friend and supporter of Jefferson." "32060","William Nelson died in 1813, not in 1815." "32170","For Sabin 66508, read 65508." "32250","
Mann Page replied to Jefferson's letter, quoted under 3225, on February 13, 1788:
Since I wrote to you I have been so fortunate as to obtain such Proofs of the general Authenticity of your Publication in the Notes on Virginia, as will fully justify what you have said respecting Cresap's Murder & Logan's Speech, & must entirely confute Mr Martin's impudent unfounded Assertions. I enclose them for your Satisfaction. You will no doubt wish to know who this Mr Anderson is, whose Narrative I have taken from his own Lips, which I read to him, & which he affirmed to be substantially true.
He has for many years past been settled in Fredsburg in the Mercantile Line. I have known him in prosperous & adverse Situations. He has always shewn the greatest Degree of Equanimity. His Honesty & Veracity are unimpeachable. These things can be attested by all the respectable Part of the Town & Neighbourhood. If what I now send you should not be satisfactory, return Anderson's Narrative. He will certify it, & I will obtain an ample Certificate of his Character.
Colo. Lewis Willis has favoured me with the enclosed Copy of Logan's Speech for your Use. He says it was guven him by the late Genl Mercer twenty odd Years ago . . .
This letter is in the Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress, which has also a number of other letters on the same subject.
John Henry, 1750-1798, Governor of Maryland, was appointed on November 13, 1797. He was a lawyer by profession, and had been a delegate to the Continental Congress and a Senator from the State of Maryland.
Henry Tazewell, 1753-1799, lawyer, judge, and senator, was born in Virginia and educated at William and Mary College. He was attacked by Jefferson for his conciliation policy at the time of the Revolution.
George Rogers Clark, 1752-1818, born near Charlottsesville, was responsible for the conquest of the Northwest during the Revolution. In 1772 and later Clark made extensive explorations in the Western country, and in 1783 was invited by Jefferson to lead an exploration party to the Pacific. His brother William was the partner of Meriwether Lewis in the Lewis and Clark expedition, q. v. no. 4168.
Samuel Brown, 1769-1830, physician, was for a time a private pupil of Benjamin Rush. He studied at the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, returned to the United States, and founded the Kappa Lambda Society of Hippocrates. In 1797 and 1798, at the time of this correspondence, he was living with his brother James, a lawyer, in Lexington, Kentucky.
James Logan, c.1725-1780, a Mingo leader and orator, whose real name was Tahgahjute, was called Logan in honor of James Logan, the Secretary of Pennsylvania. Following the Yellow Creek massacre of April 1774, his friendship for the colonists changed to hatred. Lord Dunmore, the colonial Governor, sent John Gibson to obtain Logan's presence at the making of the treaty, and his reply was that ''morsel of eloquence'' printed in the newspapers and made famous by Jefferson in his Notes on the State of Virginia. John Gibson rather than Logan is now thought to have been the real author of the speech read at the conference, and it has been proved that Michael Cresap was not the leader of the Yellow Creek massacre. See the additional note to no. 3343 in this volume, and for other references to Logan and his speech see the Index.
Nathaniel Niles, 1741-1828, was born in Rhode Island and educated at Harvard and at the College of New Jersey. He studied medicine, law, and theology but was never ordained. He served in the Connecticut legislature, was a trustee of Dartmouth College, and eventually settled in Vermont. In politics Niles was a Jeffersonian Democrat." "32250","
Michael Cresap, 1742-1775, border leader and Revolutionary soldier. Cresap was one of the leaders in what is now known as Cresap's or Dunmore's war.
On July 20, 1814, John Crookes wrote to Jefferson from the Office of the Mercantile Advertiser:
I inclose you a Versification of the Speech of Logan, which I have just published. The knowledge that it has your approbation would be more gratifying to me than the applauses of the million.
Jefferson replied on August 8:
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Crookes for the copy he has favored him with of the versification of the speech of Logan, the Mingo chief: acceptable as it is in every form, he thinks mr Crookes has strictly preserved the strong & dignified sentiments of his original. he salutes mr Crookes with respect and consideration. (MHS)" "32380","For Sabin 9864, read 9863." "32520","In the last note, the original French edition of La Rochefoucault-Liancourt's work should not be recorded as undated, but as published in Paris in l' An VII de la République [1799]. See no. 4016." "32550","Mr. Clarence S. Brigham, compiler of the History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, is of the opinion that the Cabinet was probably printed in Georgetown, not in Washington, D. C. See his note to the Cabinet in his bibliography, I, 87." "32630","For Sabin 38901, read 28907." "32840","John Brown, 1757-1837, a Representative from Virginia and a Senator from Kentucky. Accounts of him are in the Dictionary of American Biography and in the Biographical Directory of the American Congress. At his death, on August 29, 1837, he was the last survivor of the Continental Congress." "32900","The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed in 1798 by Congress partly on account of the threatened war with France, and the presence of a number of Frenchmen in the country who were in favor of Jefferson Republicans, whom the Federalists were anxious to keep out of power. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions against the Acts were written by Jefferson and Madison, respectively." "33000","
John Rutledge, 1766-1819, lawyer, planter, and soldier, was a Representative from South Carolina.
Christopher Ellery, 1768-1840, a graduate of Yale College, studied law and practiced at Newport. In 1806 he was appointed by Jefferson United States commissioner of loans at Providence, R. I. and in 1806 was appointed collector of customs at Newport. Ellery was the first Jeffersonian senator from Rhode Island." "33010","For Sabin 28281, read 28283." "33110","William Jackson, 1759-1828, was born in Cumberland, England. Left an orphan, he was brought to South Carolina. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War he was commissioned in the Army and in due course rose to the rank of major. He was Secretary to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, but resigned in 1791 to form a business partnership with William Bingham. For a time he was Secretary of the Society of the Cincinnati, and was surveyor of customs at Philadelphia until as a Federalist he was removed from office by Jefferson." "33170","In the quotation from Johnston, for Bach read Bache." "33260","For Sabin 13376, read 12376." "33210","Richard Valentine Morris's dates were 1768-1815, not 1726 to 1798." "33430","
Abbé Claude C. Robin, born in 1750, travelled to America in 1781 as priest of the French auxiliary corps, under the orders of the Comte de Rochambeau. In the following year he published his Nouveau Voyage dans l'Amérique Septentrionale, en l'année 1781; et Campagne de l'Année de M. le Comte de Rochambeau. . . In the following year Robert Bell published a translation into English by Philip Freneau with the title: New Travels through North-America: In a Series of Letters; Exhibiting, the History of the Victorious Campaign of the Allied Armies, under his Excellency George Washington; and the Count de Rochambeau, in the Year 1781 . . . Translated from the original of the abbé Robin; one of the Chaplains of the French Army in America. . . Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street. M,DCC,LXXXIII. Price Two Thirds of a Dollar.
The passage referred to by Barton occurs as a footnote on page 57. In reference to the cruelty of the Spaniards, abbé Robin writes:
''An Indian speech that was given me by a professor at Williamsburg, a translation of which is subjoined, is a proof of this. It discovers at the same time, the bold and masculine energy with which these savages are taught by nature to express themselves.
''Speech of the Savage Lonan, in a General Assembly, as it was sent to the Governor of Virginia; anno 1754.
''Lonan will no longer oppose making the proposed peace with the white man--you are sensible that he never knew what fear is--that he never turned his back in the day of battle--no one has more love for the white man than I have. The war we have had with them, has been long, and bloody on both sides--rivers have ran on all parts, and yet no good has resulted therefrom to any--I once more repeat it--let us be at peace with these men; I will forget our injuries, the interest of my country demands it--I will forget--but difficult indeed is the task--yes--I will forget--that Major Rogers cruelly and inhumanly murdered, in their canoes, my wife, my children, my father, my mother, and all my kindred.--This roused me to deeds of vengeance!--I was cruel in despight of myself--I will die content if my country is once more at peace; but when Lonan shall be no more, who, alas, will drop a tear to the memory of Lonan?''
The speech of Logan as quoted by Jefferson, who challenges ''the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent, to produce a single passage superior'' reads:
''I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he cloathed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin and advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed and said 'Logan is the friend of white men.' I had even thought to have lived with you, but for the injuries of one man, Col. Cresap, the last spring, in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not sparing even my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have fought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan?--Not one.''
Major Rogers, mentioned in ''Lonan's'' speech, was Robert Rogers, q. v. no. 4010.
For Colonel Cresap, see the Appendix to the Notes on Virginia, no. 3225, 4051." "33500","For Daveiss, Joseph Harrison read Daveiss, Joseph Hamilton." "33650","
The heading Not in the Library of Congress 1815 Catalogue is an error. The heading should read: Not in the Manuscript Catalogue. 1815 Catalogue, page 102, no. 293.
1815 Catalogue, page 102, no. 293. Political, 1808. 8vo." "33680","''Not in Sabin'' is an error. See Sabin 60008." "33870","For ''not in Sabin,'' read ''Sabin 30097n.''" "33910","For Sabin 6148, read 16148." "34120","For Sabin 46128, read 13725." "34560","For Sabin 69766, read 69677." "35010","
In the Jefferson papers in the New-York Historical Society is a manuscript memorandum, written on 19 numbered pages, dated 1810, headed:
Memorandum respecting the suit instituted by E. Livingston against Tho. Jefferson late President of the United States, for damages &c &c in the Batture case.
Under III heads as follows:
I. The law authorised the President to remove E. Livingston.
II. The decree of the territorial Court in favor of Livingston did not preclude the President from the right of exercising the general powers invested in him.
III. E. Livingston has no claim for damages because he has no title.
On another page is written:
Memorandum respecting the suit started by E. Livingston against Th: Jefferson late President. Letters to & from mr Jefferson, 1810.
The letters from Jefferson include three to Albert Gallatin, dated respectively May 30, August 16, and September 27, 1810.
In the Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress is an attack on Edward Livingston, 3 columns of newsprint, signed Thierry, without date, but probably printed in 1806. The headline is cut away except for the last two words, the Courier." "35010","
Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1774-1860, son of Henry Tazewell, was born in Williamsburg and educated at the College of William and Mary, where he was a pupil of George Wythe. He was a lawyer, a Senator, and Governor of Virginia. In politics he was an Anti-Federalist, and opposed many of the policies of Jefferson, including the Embargo.
There is another copy of the Proceedings in the Library of the U. S. State Department." "35150","For Sabin 10063, read 10064." "35380","In Jefferson's heading the words [in chapter 21] were not inserted by Jefferson, and should have been in roman letter or omitted." "35630","The Short-Title Catalogue, no. P2777A, reports an earlier issue, without name of printer, the imprint reading Printed 1697, 1 copy only (Massachusetts Historical Society)." "35640","STC P2780." "35470","Joseph Correa de Serra (properly José Francisco Correa da Serra), 1750-1823, Portuguese diplomat and botanist. He first came to the United States in 1813 and gave lectures on botany. In 1816 he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States from Portugal, and he retained the appointment until 1820." "35540","James Maitland, Earl of Lauderdale, died in 1839, not in 1830." "35840","
These pamphlets were sent to Jefferson by William Short, for whom they were obtained by Louis Ramond.
On December 23, 1790, Short, writing from Amsterdam to Ramond in Paris, mentioned:
''I observe the Bishop of Autun quoted lately le savant ouvrage de M. Mirabeau sur les monnoies. I will thank you to send it together with the Bishop's memoire which he apparently wished to be presented to Mr. Jefferson. I am waiting with a good deal of impatience for the pamphlets which I asked the favor of you to send me. . .''
Ramond replied from Paris on December 31:
''J'enverrai ces jours cy en amérique les livres dont vous me chargez de faire envoyer à M. Jefferson.''" "35890","The ''J.'' should be deleted from the heading. Jefferson's copy is not in existence." "36030","Entered by Jefferson without price in his undated manuscript catalogue." "36050","Entered without price by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue." "36060","Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 20." "36070","Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price, 24." "36090","
The extract beginning Warville's business in America was not enclosed as a note in Jefferson's letter to Madison, but actually was Jefferson's key (retained in his files at Paris) to the coded passages in the letter of that date (May 3, 1788) to Madison. I am indebted to Mr Frederick Aandahl, former Associate Editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton, for this information.
The date in the imprint should read 1787, not 1797.
The title is entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue." "36110","Entered by Jefferson without price in his undated manuscript catalogue." "36130","The autograph signature of Tho: Jones, 1720, is on the title-page." "36140","Jefferson's entry in his undated manuscript catalogue, in contrast to his heading as quoted, includes both authors: British rates by Simms & Frewin. 8vo." "36160","Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, without price." "36170","Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, without price." "36180","
These tracts are similarly entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue.
Vol. III, page 481. In the list of books from Chapter 24 not sold to Congress the Lawyer or Man as he ought not to be should be deleted. It was transferred to chapter 34, Romance. See no. 4376." "36660","Melatiah Nash, fl. 1799-1819, published his Columbian Ephemeris and Astronomical Diary, referred to by Jefferson in this letter, in 1812." "36670","John Napier (or Neper), 1550-1617, eighth Laird of Merchiston, known as the inventor of logarithms, explained their construction in his earliest work on the subject before he had invented that word. His Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio was published in 1614." "37600","The President of the Senate, pro tempore, was John Langdon of New Hampshire." "36940","''Mr Walsh'' was Robert Walsh, Jr., 1784-1859, the author of the life of Franklin in Delaplaine's Repository, for which he obtained information from Jefferson (see no. 466). For an account of Walsh and his activities, see the Dictionary of American Biography." "38020","
The title of this book is: A Learned Treatise of Globes: Both Coelestiall and Terrestriall: with their several uses. Written first in Latine, by Mr Robert Hues: and by him so Published. Afterward Illustrated with Notes by Io. Isa Pontanus. And now lastly made English, for the benefit of the Vnlearned. By John Chilmead Mr A. of Christ-Church in Oxon.
The first edition of this translation was printed in 1638, the second in 1639, and the third in 1659 (STC 13907, 13908, H3298). The translator is named John Chilmead in all these editions. The account of Edmund Chilmead (1610-1654, English miscellaneous writer) in the Dictionary of National Biography closes with the statement that this translation ''is usually attributed to Edmund Chilmead with apparent correctness.''" "39320","
In a letter to Jefferson (at the time in Paris) dated from Madrid March 29, 1785, Carmichael wrote:
Before I execute the Commission you have given me to purchase you a collection of Spanish Voyages &c &c. I must previously inform you that, most of the books you mention are very scarce here & consequently very Dear. I have given a list to Sanchez a famous Bookseller with a request that he would note the prices at which they may be procured. I have engaged Bayer a great Antiquarian to write to Valentia & Valladolid to know whether they may not be procured on more reasonable terms in these Cities. He also has promised to Add to the List such others as may be worth your Attention. I have several of the most curious in my possession, which are at your service. . . .
In a letter written from Aranjuez on April 19, little more than two weeks later Carmichael mentioned:
I have not yet been able to procure an acct. of the Price of the Books you wished me to procure you. They are in general scarce, & you will be surprized at the price demanded for such as I have been able to discover.
Sir Joseph Banks, 1743-1820, English botanist and naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1766, and in 1778, after the death of Sir John Pringle, the President of the Society, was elected to that office. His great friend was Daniel Solander, q. v., who had been a pupil of Linnaeus and an assistant librarian at the British Museum, and they both accompanied Captain Cook on his expedition round the world on the Endeavour." "40110","Sir James Jay, 1732-1815, an elder brother of John Jay, was knighted by George III. He was born in New York City, where he set up practice as a physician after receiving a medical degree at the University of Edingburgh. For an account of him and his works see the Dictionary of American Biography." "40330","In the title, for on read ou." "40500","For Evans 21078, read 21068." "41630","
The print of Vespucci was returned to its proper place on June 20, 1816, on which day Jefferson wrote to George Watterston, the Librarian of Congress:
I have formerly mentioned, either in some letter written to you, or in a note in the MS. catalogue, that I had cut the print of Americus Vespucius out of the book containing his life, & lent it to mr Delaplaine to be copied. it is just now returned to me, very much sullied, but as it is the original, it should be pasted again into the work, for which purpose I now inclose it. you will readily find at the beginning of the book the remains of the leaf from which it was cut . . . (Library of Congress)." "41660","For Sabin 68819, read 48057." "41670","
For William Stephen Smith, read William Stephens Smith.
In sending a copy of the Notes on Virginia to Gaudenzio Clerici, in Novara, Piedmont, Italy, Jefferson wrote from Paris on August 15, 1787:
I send to the Count del Verme the books which I had mentioned to him when at Milan. a copy of some Notes on the state of Virginia which I wrote in the year 1781. a careless translation of them has been published here, which I hope will not make it's way to your country. the subjects are too uninteresting & too imperfectly treated to be worth translating into your language . . .
Concerning Morellet's translation of the Notes into French, Jefferson wrote to William Carmichael from Paris on December 15, 1787:
You ask me if there is any French translation of my Notes. there is one by the Abbé Morellet: but the whole order is changed and other differences made, which, with numerous typographical errors render it a different book, in some respects perhaps a better one, but not mine. I am flattered by the Count de Campomanes's acceptance of the original. I wish I had thought to have sent one to Don Ulloa . . ." "41690","Henry Dearborn, 1751-1829, general of militia, Secretary of War, and Congressman from Massachusetts. His third wife was Sarah Bowdoin, the widow of James Bowdoin, q. v." "41860","The fact that this book was entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue presupposes that he acquired it during his residence in Europe rather than at the sale of the library of William Byrd of Westover." "42070","Jefferson ordered a copy of Brook Taylor's treatise on perspective (to be sent in boards) from John Stockdale in a letter dated to him from Paris, September 13, 1786." "42590","Delete the words ''With this is bound.''" "42620","In the notes, column 1, the paragraph beginning ''Jefferson ordered a copy of this work'' should precede the paragraph in front of it beginning ''The two works.''" "46070","Cancelled." "46870","John Stevens Cogdell, 1778-1847, sculptor, painter, and lawyer, was a native of Charleston, South Carolina. In 1810, the year of this correspondence with Jefferson, he was elected to the state House of Representatives, and he was reelected in 1814, 1816, and 1818. In 1832 he became President of the Bank of South Carolina." "48700","Jefferson ordered a copy of this work in his letter to John Payne of London, dated from Paris Jan. 28, 1789." "48890","
Five livraisons of the Encyclopédie, 34-38, were billed to Jefferson in New York by Froullé from Paris. The bill reads:
Du 22 Juin 1790
fournis a monsieur de Jefferson par froulle
1: 34me livraison de Lenclycopedie 19 . . 4
1: 35me Ideme 19 . . 4
1 36 Ideme 19
1 37 Ideme 28
1 38 Ideme 33
118 .. 8
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