Opposition mornings with Betty’s remarks.
1. [TICKELL,
Richard.]
Opposition mornings: with Betty’s remarks . . .
Dublin: printed for the
Company of Booksellers, by
Byrn and Son,
m dcc lxxix
. [1779.]
36 leaves including the half-title. Begins with
A short word or two from Betty, signed Elizabeth O’Neil, St. James’s Street, May 21, 1779.
Halkett and Laing IV, 265.
Sabin 95797.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
Richard Tickell, 1751-1793, English pamphleteer and dramatist, was the brother-in-law of R. B. Sheridan. This pamphlet has references to
the American Revolution.
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a fragment on an Irish association.
2.
Irish association.
A fragment of 16 leaves, sig. C-F
4, pages 17-48, partly uncut. Relative to Irish trade--an anti-English article.
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a fragment of 1785. on Pitt’s administration & Hastings’ impeachment.
3. PITT,
William,
and HASTINGS,
Warren.
This fragment of 47 leaves is almost complete. It begins on B
2, page 3, and apparently lacks only the preliminary matter; it ends properly on page 95, G
8. On the first page Jefferson has written the date,
1785.
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Richards’s Review of Noble’s memoirs of the house of Cromwell.
4. RICHARDS,
William.
A Review of the Memoirs of the protectoral-house of Cromwell, by the Rev. Mark Noble, F.A.S. of L. & E. rector of Barming,
in Kent. Addressed to the Right Hon. the Earl of Sandwich, the patron of that work . . . By William Richards . . .
Lynn: Printed and sold by
R. Marshall; sold also by
T. Cadell,
London,
mdcclxxxvii
. [1787.]
41 leaves, publisher’s announcement and list of corrigenda on the verso of the title-leaf; dated at the end from Lynn, Dec.
24, 1787.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
William Richards, 1749-1818, a Welshman, known as the historian of Lynn, was pastor in that town for some years. He passed his life in Wales
and England, but in 1793 received the diploma of M.A. from Brown University, Rhode Island, and the degree of LL.D. in 1818,
the year of his death. Richards, who had died without knowing of the latter honor, bequeathed his library of 1,300
volumes to Brown University.
The Memoirs of the Protectoral-House of Cromwell
, by Mark Noble, 1754-1827, was published in 1784.
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the Constitution of Poland of 1791.
5.
New Constitution of the government of Poland, established by the revolution, the third of May, 1791.
London: printed for
J. Debrett,
1791.
22 leaves including the half-title.
Jefferson’s name written in ink on the half-title, probably by the donor.
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