“
written that book, and in distress. I had read and approved the book: I considered him as a man of genius, unjustly persecuted.
I knew nothing of his private character, and immediately expressed my readiness to contribute to his relief, & to serve him.
it was a considerable time after, that, on application from a person who thought of him as I did, I contributed to his relief,
and afterwards repeated the contribution. himself I did not see till long after, nor ever more than two or three times. when
he first began to write he told some useful truths in his coarse way; but nobody sooner disapproved of his writings than I
did, or wished more that he would be silent. my charities to him were no more meant as encouragements to his scurrilities
than those I give to the beggar at my door are meant as rewards for the vices of his life, & to make them chargeable to myself.
in truth they would have been greater to him had he never written a word after the work for which he fled from Britain . .
.
”
For the full history of Jefferson and Callender, see Jefferson’s correspondence.
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329
d
o.
[Pamphlets American
] 1796.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 101. no. 271, Pamphlets, American, 1796 8vo.
1849 Catalogue, page 621. no. 461, Pamphlets. American.--British Honour and Humanity, by T. Callendar, 8vo; Philadelphia,
1796.--Political Truths; with an Inquiry into the Charges preferred against Mr. Randolph; Philadelphia, 1796.--Agrarian Justice;
the Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance; and Letter to George Washington, &c., by Thomas Paine; Philadelphia,
1796.--Remarks occasioned by the late Conduct of Mr. Washington, as President of the United States; Philadelphia, 1797.--Address
to the Citizens of the District of York, in Virginia, by their Representative, John Page, of Rosewell.--Letter to George Washington,
President of the United States; containing Strictures on his Address of the 17th of September, 1796, notifying his Relinquishment
of the Presidential Office, by Jasper Dwight, of Vermont, 8vo; Philadelphia, 1796.
The titles of this collection of eight tracts are taken from the 1849 Library of Congress Catalogue. The volume that was in
the Jefferson collection has disappeared.
1.
British honour and humanity; or, the Wonders of American Patience, as exemplified in the modest publications, and universal
applause of Mr. William Cobbet; including a variety of anecdotes and remarks, personal and political, and a survey of the
modern state of American newspapers: by a friend to regular government.
Philadelphia: printed for and sold by
Robert Campbell,
1796.
E313 .B86
First Edition. 8vo. 29 leaves. The
Preface dated from Philadelphia, Octob. 8, 1796.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Sabin 8110 (under title).
Evans 31255 (under Swanwick).
In the 1849 Library of Congress catalogue the pamphlet is listed as
British Honour and Humanity, by T. Callendar . . . which may have been taken from Jefferson’s listing at the beginning of his volume of these pamphlets, though this cannot
be proved. Evans’s note reads:
. . . This is sometimes erroneously attributed to Mathew Carey; but it is more probably written by John Swanwick, of whom,
in a large measure, it is a defence.
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2. RANDOLPH,
Edmund.
Political Truth: or Animadversions on the past and present state of Public Affairs; with an inquiry into the truth of the
charges preferred against Mr. Randolph.
Philadelphia: printed by
Samuel Harrison Smith,
m.dcc.xcvi
. [1796.]
E311 .R19
First Edition. 8vo. 22 leaves.
Sabin 67815.
Evans 31072.
See also Randoph’s
Vindication
, no. 3180.
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