Anticipation.
1778.
Letter to the E. of Chatham.
1777.
annals of administrñ.
1775.
1815 Catalogue, page 101. no. 243, Miscellanies on America, 3 v 8vo, 1775-80.
3 vol. 8vo. in uniform half bindings, labels on the back lettered Colonial / Pamphlets. / Vol. 7 [-8-9]. / With the Library
of Congress 1815 bookplate in each volume.
E187 .C72 vol. 7, 8, 9
From the library of Benjamin Franklin, and with annotations by him. On the leaf facing the first title-page in each volume, Franklin has listed the contents of the volume omitting the first tract, the
entry for which is replaced by a figure 1, and an arrow pointing to the printed title on the opposite leaf. In the first volume
the list is therefore on the back of the half-title and not on the fly-leaf.
These volumes were sent to Jefferson by
N. G. Dufief from Philadelphia on February 14, 1803, at the same time he sent the “
deux petits ouvrages sur la Révolution américaine” [see no. 3073]. With regard to these
Miscellanies Dufief wrote: “. . . Et pour que vous ayez un
reliquaire complet, j’y joindrai un ouvrage en 3 vol
s, intitulé
Miscellanies of America, ou se trouvent dans le 1
er Tome plusieurs notes Marginales au crayon & à la plume, que je crois être du même Grand Homme. c’est une offrande que je
vous fais & qui vous est du puisque vous êtes l’ami & l’un des Collaborateurs de l’illustre Mort. Aucun Grec ne fut surpris
de voir Philoctète posseder les armes d’Hercule . . .”
Jefferson acknowledged the receipt of the volumes three months later, on May 5. For this letter, and the correspondence on these books from Franklin’s library, see no. 3073.
Franklin and Jefferson’s volume I, Library of Congress Colonial Pamphlets Vol. 7, contains three tracts (numbered in ink on
the title-pages) as follows:
Further examñ of American measures.
1776.
1. [MORRIS,
Matthew Robinson-, Baron Rokeby.]
A Further Examination of our present American measures and of the reasons and the principles on which they are founded. By
the author of Considerations on the Measures carrying on with respect to the British Colonies in North-America . . .
Bath: printed by
R. Cruttwell, for
R. Baldwin, and
E. and C. Dilly,
London,
m dcc lxxvi
. [1776.]
First Edition. 8vo. 131 leaves in eights, including the half-title (with the price,
Three Shillings) and the last blank; list of Errrata [sic] on the verso of the fourth preliminary leaf.
Halkett and Laing II, 350.
Sabin 72154.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. Franklin’s list of the contents of the volume on the verso of the half-title.
Matthew Robinson-Morris, 2nd baron Rokeby, 1713-1800, originally Matthew Robinson, took the additional name Morris on inheriting some property. This is one of four
pamphlets written by him against the American policy of Lord North, and is dated at the end Dec. 1775. A second edition appeared
in the same year.
For another pamphlet by him on North’s American policy, see the first tract in volume II.
[3056]
Tucker on separating from the colonies.
1776. M. S. notes by D
r. Franklin.
2. [TUCKER,
Josiah.]
A Series of answers to certain Popular Objections, against separating from the Rebellious Colonies, and discarding them entirely;
being the concluding tract of the Dean of Glocester, on the subject of American affairs.
Glocester: printed by
R. Raikes; and sold by
T. Cadell,
London,
m.dcc.lxxvi.
[1776.]
