[-2 March, 1793] in the seventeenth year of the sovereignty of the said United States.
Philadelphia: printed by
John Fenno,
m.dcc.xcii
. [i.e.
1793.]
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Folio. 6 Journals in 2 volumes.
Sabin 15551.
Evans 22207, 22982, 23900, 23901, 24911, 26333.
A copy was half-bound for Jefferson by Milligan on June 7, 1809.
2. The first 8vo. volume is that for the first session of the Fourth Congress, begun and held at the City of Philadelphia,
December 7, 1795. Philadelphia: Printed by John Fenno,
m dcc xcv
[1795]. The Journals were printed in Philadelphia until 1800, when the Government moved to Washington, and were then printed
by Way and Groff, by A. & G. Way, and later by William Duane and others. The volume for 1809, the last one sold to Congress
by Jefferson, is for the second session of the Eleventh Congress begun and helf in the City of Washington November 27th 1809
. . . Washington City: Printed by Roger C. Weightman, 1809.
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Official Reports. 1790-92.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 101. no. 440. Official Reports 1790-1, fol.
Official reports from the Executive Departments to the House of Representatives of the United States, 1790-1792.
Copies of the Reports of the Secretary of State [Jefferson], the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General and other
officials to the House of Representatives are in the Library of Congress, and a number may have been part of the Jefferson
collection, but have no specific marks of identification.
A copy of the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the Establishment of a Mint has the date
Jan. 28, 1791, written in ink at the head, in what may be Jefferson’s handwriting.
A copy of the Report of the Secretary of State [i.e. Jefferson], on the lands not claimed by the Indians nor by any citizens,
dated November 10, 1791, is in the original blue wrappers, on which is written
Secretary of State and
Western lands (not by Jefferson).
A copy of the Secretary of the Treasury’s Report for November 19, 1792, has in Jefferson’s autograph at the head:
Nov. 19, 1792 damages during war.
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Robert Morris’s Accounts.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 101. no. 439. Morris’s Accounts, 1781-4, fol.
[MORRIS,
Robert.]
A Statement of the Accounts of the United States of America, during the administration of the Superintendant of Finance, commencing
with his appointment, on the 20th day of February, 1781, and ending with his resignation, on the 1st day of November, 1784.
Philadelphia: printed by
Robert Aitken,
m.dcc.lxxxv
. [1785.]
HJ10 .E1 1785
Folio. 109 leaves in twos.
Sabin 50867.
Evans 19333.
Half-bound, the title written in ink on the upper cover. This volume is not initialled by Jefferson but was probably his copy. On the title is written in pencil the chapter and number from the 1815 catalogue (that is, Jefferson’s number, but not in his hand). This
number was changed in all later catalogues.
The book was missing when George Watterston, the Librarian of Congress, first arranged the Jefferson collection and he so
reported it to Jefferson in a letter dated from Washington, December 7, 1815: “. . . I find, on reexamining the book, that there are two works which have not been received viz--“Rays American Tars in Tripoli
& Morris’ Accounts”. These are the only deficiencies I know of . . .”
Jefferson replied from Monticello on March 2, 1816: “
. . . I think you may be assured you have Morris’s ”
