“. . . From the first view I had of the report from Phil
a. I had some strong objections to it. But as I had no inclination to inlist myself on either side, made no communication or
positive declaration of my sentiments untill after the Convention met. being however desirous to communicate them to my constituents,
I address’d the enclos’d letter to them, with intention of giving them a view thereof eight or ten days before it met, but
the impression was delayed so long, & so incorrectly made, and the whole performance upon reexamination so loosely drawn that
I thought it best to suppress it. There appear’d likewise to be an impropriety in interfering with the subject in that manner
in that late stage of the business. I enclose it you for your perusal & comment on it . . .”
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Remarks on the Address of the 16. members of Pennsylvã.
?
J. 8. [
Webster, Pelatiah.]
Remarks on the Address of Sixteen Members of the Assembly of Pennsylvania, to their Constituents, dated September 29, 1787.
With some strictures on their objections to the Constitution, recommended by the late Federal Convention, humbly offered to
the public. By a Citizen of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia: printed by
Eleazer Oswald,
m,dcc,lxxxvii
. [1787.]
JK148 .W4 A3
First Edition. Sm. 8vo. 14 leaves; dated at the end from Philadelphia, October 12, 1787.
Sabin 102415.
Evans 20871.
Ford 163.
This pamphlet is similarly bound in half morocco to no. 3016 and no. 3018 above, and is probably from Jefferson’s library.
On the first page is written in ink the chapter number
24, in the same hand (probably Jefferson’s) that appears on the first page of a number of the pamphlets in the collection.
Pelatiah Webster, 1726-1795, was a native of Connecticut.
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J. 287
The Federal farmer.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 105. no. 63, as above.
[LEE,
Richard Henry.]
Observations leading to a fair examination of the System of Government proposed by the late Convention; and to several essential
and necessary alterations in it. In a number of letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican.
Printed in the year
m,dcc,lxxxvii
. [
New York:
Thomas Greenleaf, 1787.]
JK146 .L45
First Edition, second issue. 12mo. 2 parts in 1, 20 and 71 leaves with separate signatures and continuous pagination. The title
for the second part, on page [41], reads:
An Additional number of letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican; leading to a fair examination of the System of
Government, proposed by the late Convention; to several essential and necessary alterations in it; and calculated to illustrate
and support the principles and positions laid down in the preceding letters.
Printed in the year
m,dcc,lxxxviii
.
Halkett and Laing IV, 214.
Sabin 39784 (not this issue).
Evans 20455.
Ford 110.
Original calf, rebacked, some margins badly cut into. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. With the Library of Congress
1815 bookplate.
Richard Henry Lee, 1732-1794, Revolutionary statesman, and brother of Arthur Lee, was a friend and political associate of Jefferson. An earlier
issue of this work in the same year has an ornament on the title-page and a misprint in the date in the imprint.
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