A Charge delivered by the Hon. James Wilson, Esq. one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, to the Grand Jury, impannelled for the Circuit
Court of the United States, holden for the middle-circuit at the Capitol, in the city of Richmond, and district of Virginia,
on Monday, the 23d day of May, 1791.
Richmond: printed by
Augustine Davis,
m,dcc,xci
. [1791.]
First Edition. 8vo. 16 leaves including the last blank.
Sabin 104626. Evans 24006. Adams 10.
James Wilson, 1742-1798, jurist and Congressman, was born in Scotland and emigrated to New York in 1765.
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2. [MIRABEAU,
Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de.]
[
Considerations sur l’ordre de Cincinnatus . . . Londres,
1785.]
Another edition of no. 3024 above, q.v.
This copy lacks the title, all but the last leaf of the preliminary matter, and eight leaves at the end of Mirabeau’s text.
It is without the letters of George Washington and Turgot and the Observations of Dr. Price.
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3. OGILVIE,
James.
A Speech delivered in Essex County in support of a Memorial, presented to the citizens of that County and now laid before
the Assembly on, the subject of the Alien and Sedition Acts; by James Ogilvie.
Richmond: printed by
Jones & Dixon, Printers to the Commonwealth,
m,dcc,xcviii
. [1798.]
First Edition. 8vo. 6 leaves.
Sabin 56837.
Evans 34269.
James Ogilvie, 1760-1820, Scottish scholar, emigrated to Virginia in 1779, and established an academy at Milton, where he became acquainted
with Jefferson and eventually tutor to his grandchildren. Later he returned to Aberdeen, Scotland, where he is said to have
died by his own hand. Jefferson had much correspondence with him.
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4. NICHOLAS,
George.
Correspondence between George Nicholas, Esq. of Kentucky, and the Hon. Robert G. Harper, Member of Congress from the District of 96, State of South Carolina.
Lexington: printed by
John Bradford,
1799.
First Edition. 17 leaves, the last 4 with separate pagination for the Appendix: Observations on Judge Addisons Charge to the Grand
Jury, on the Liberty of the Press.
Sabin 55166.
McMurtrie 123.
Jillson, page 23.
The name
Col. Thomas Bell--of Char[
lottes]
vi[
lle] [partly cut away] written in ink on the title-page.
Sent to Jefferson by Philip Norborne Nicholas, who wrote from Richmond, Virginia, on October 8, 1799: “Inclosed is a little posthumous work work [sic] of my brother Colo. Geo. Nicholas. It contains some very severe strictures on the measures of the last session of Congress.
This pamphlet is characterized by that freedom of inquiry and independence of spirit which is conspicuous in all the writings
of the author. Harper if not calous must feel some of the cutting truths which it contains . . .”
Jefferson wrote to Nicholas on November 2, but the letterpress copy in the Library of Congress is illegible.
This is the second of two pamphlets by Nicholas on the Kentucky resolutions against the Alien and Sedition Laws. The chief
letter is dated June 10, 1799, so that Jefferson’s efforts to distribute one of Nicholas’s pamphlets on this subject must
have referred to the earlier one, published in 1798.
