J. 199
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[Pamphlets English
] 92-3.
8
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1815 Catalogue, page 101, no. 189. Pamphlets English, 1792, 3, 8vo.
A collection of seven pamphlets, originally bound together for Jefferson in one volume, 8vo.; rebound by the Library of Congress
in 1920 in one volume, blue buckram, a red label on the back lettered
Political /
Pamphlets /, the volume number 85 in gilt on the buckram. Each tract numbered serially in ink on the first page.
JA36 .P8 vol. 85
1. BARLOW,
Joel.
A Letter to the National Convention of France, on the defects in the constitution of 1791, and the extent of the amendments
which ought to be applied. To which is added the Conspiracy of Kings, a poem. By Joel Barlow, author of Advice to the privileged orders; and the Vision of Columbus.
New-York: printed by
Thomas Greenleaf, for
J. Fellows . . . [According to act of Congress.] [
1793.]
8vo. 44 leaves including one blank. The text of
A Letter ends on page 70, sig. I, and is followed by a blank leaf and a half-title for
The Conspiracy of Kings.
Sabin 3423 (
note).
Evans 25143.
Dexter IV, 12.
This edition (of
The Conspiracy of Kings) not in Wegelin.
Howard, page 421.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
On March 18, 1792, Barlow sent to Jefferson from London a copy of the first edition of
The Conspiracy of Kings which is not in this collection. Of the poem he wrote in his covering letter: “. . . Though one of the Kings died while the Poem was in the press, it was not my fault. If this had been the case with all
of them, I should have been willing to have suppressed the publication for so good a cause . . .”
Joel Barlow, 1754-1812, poet and statesman, was a close friend and constant correspondent of Jefferson. Jefferson introduced Barlow to Richard Price. (For the letter of introduction, see no. 4302, where it is quoted.) The first edition of
A Letter to the National Convention of France was published in London in 1792, and as a reward Barlow was made a citizen of France.
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2. PAINE,
Thomas.
Rights of Man. Part the second. Combining principle and practice. By Thomas Paine, Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Congress in the American War, and author of the work entitled Common Sense; and the first
part of the Rights of Man.
London: printed for
J. S. Jordan,
1792.
First Edition. 98 leaves, including the half-title (with the price,
Three shillings) and the last blank. The dedication to M. de La Fayette dated from
London, Feb. 9, 1792.
Lowndes IV, 1761.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 955.
Seligman XI, 530.
Not in Sabin.
Foremargins cut close, in some cases with injury to text. On the half-title Jefferson has written in ink the designation
pamphlets 92.
Sent by Paine to Jefferson in 1792. No copy of Part I was sold by Jefferson to Congress, though he undoubtedly owned a copy.
The first edition was originally printed in London in 1791, and reprinted in Philadelphia in the same year by Samuel Harrison
Smith, which seems to have been the cause of the first meeting between Jefferson and Smith, who became a friend of Jefferson,
and in 1814 took an active part in the sale of his library to Congress.
On May 8, 1791, Jefferson wrote from Philadelphia to the President of the United States [George Washington]: “
The last week does not furnish one single public event worthy communicating to you: so that I have only to say “all is well.”
Paine’s answer to Burke’s pamphlet begins to produce some squibs in our public papers. in Fenno’s paper they are Burkites,
in the others Painites. one of Fenno’s was evidently from the author of the discourses on Davila. I am afraid the indiscretion
of a printer has committed me with my friend m
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Adams, for whom, as one of the most honest & disinterested men alive, I have a cordial esteem, increased by long habits of
concurrence in opinion in the days of his republicanism: and even since his apostasy to hereditary monarchy & nobility, tho’
we differ, we differ as friends should do.--Beckley had the only copy of Paine’s pamphlet,
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