On February 14 Dufief wrote giving the volume to Jefferson, and at the same time sent the three volumes of
Miscellanies
described above (no. 3056-3068): “. . . J’ai cru sentir en lisant votre lettre que vous seriez charmé de posseder les seules
Reliques littéraires qui nous restent probablement de l’immortel Franklin,
Saint bien plus grand qu’aucun de ceux du Calendrier du peuple le plus dévot, puisqu’il a contribué par ses
miracles à fonder une Nation, où Dieu est adoré suivant la Conscience, & où ses interprétes ne sont que ce qu’ils devraient être partout
de simples ministres de la Religion; veuillez donc les accepter malgré le desir religieux de les garder qu’elles m’avaient
inspiré. Et pour que vous ayez un
reliquaire complèt, j’y joindrai un ouvrage en 3 vol
s, intitulé,
Miscellanies of America . . .” [for the continuation of this letter see the introduction to no. 3056.]
Three months later, on May 5, Jefferson acknowledged the volumes to Dufief. In a letter dated from Washington he wrote: “
. . . I find that I omitted in due time to make you my acknolegements for the precious reliques of Doct
r. Franklin, which you were so obliging as to spare from your particular collection. Not only the intrinsic value of whatever
came from him, but my particular affection for him, extend the measure of my obligation to you for this kindness . . .
”
Allen Ramsay was the son of Allen Ramsay the poet; other works by him are in this catalogue.
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J. 312
Great Britain & America. tracts. 1765-1781.
10. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 98. no. 237, Great Britain & America, pamphlets from 1765-1781, 10 v 8vo.
Nine volumes from Jefferson’s library have been identified as follows:
Volume 1
Five tracts, numbered as six (1-6) on the title-pages, originally bound together for Jefferson in 1 volume 8vo and classified
by the Library of Congress as
Colonial Pamphlets, Volume 10; since separated and reclassified as follows:
1.
Letters to the Right Honourable the Earl of Hillsborough, from Governor Bernard, General Gage, and the Honourable his Majesty’s
Council for the province of Massachusetts-Bay. With an Appendix, containing divers proceedings referred to in the said letters.
Boston: New-England. Printed by
Edes and
Gill, printers to the Honourable House of Representatives,
1769; and,
London: re-printed for
J. Almon.
F67 .M327
8vo. 84 leaves, with the inserted leaf *R between sig. Q and R. This copy is without the 4 leaves of
Almon’s advertisement at the end.
Rebound in half morocco by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. This tract has a separate listing
in Jefferson’s manuscript catalogue; it is possible therefore that he had two copies.
Sir Francis Bernard, 1711?-1779, governor of Massachusetts Bay.
Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough and first Marquess of Downshire, 1718-1793, was Secretary of State for the Colonies at the time this pamphlet was written.
The first edition was published in folio in Boston and the second in quarto at Salem.
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2. [BUSHE,
Gervase Parker.]
Case of Great Britain and America, Addressed to the King, and both Houses of Parliament . . . The
Second Edition.
London: Printed for
T. Becket and
P. A. De Hondt,
mdcclxix
. [1769]
E211 .C31
