1815 Catalogue, page 102. no. 285, as above, 8vo.
Nineteen pamphlets originally bound together, but since separated by the Library of Congress; the separate pamphlets rebound
and reclassified.
The 1839 and 1849 Catalogues list four titles, and ten names of authors without the titles. The pamphlets forming the volume
have been collected by means of the 1864 Library of Congress Catalogue which is in alphabetical order of author and the pamphlet
volume is indicated when appropriate. Some of the pamphlets are definitely the copies from Jefferson’s library; others have
obviously been separated from a volume of pamphlets, but have no definite marks of Jefferson’s ownership.
J. 1. SUMNER,
Charles Pinckney.
Eulogy on the illustrious George Washington, pronounced at Milton, twenty-second February, 1800. By Charles Pinckney Sumner.
Dedham: printed by
H. Mann,
1800.
E312.63 .S955
First Edition, issue D. 8vo. 12 leaves. This issue has the corrected reading
night on page 6, line 3, and the flying eagle tailpiece.
Rebound in buckram by the Library of Congress. On the title-page is a presentation inscription from the author partly cut away and erased, ending:
the President with the respect of The Author.
On the title-page, below the word Milton, Jefferson has written in ink:
near Boston; and on page 8, as a footnote to the phrase underlined by him
yonder hills almost in sight, to which he has added an asterisk, Jefferson has written:
*Charleston, Cambridge, & Dorchester Heights.
It is possible that this is one of the pamphlets sent to Jefferson by the author from Boston on January 11, 1804: “The approbation, with which the inclosed have been received by a number of my friends, has emboldened me to request the favor
of
your accepting them.
"I offer them with great diffidence and value them chiefly for the opportunity they afford me of making a profession of those
sentiments of admiration for your character . . .”
Jefferson replied on January 26: “
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Sumner, and his thanks for the pamphlets he enclosed which he will read at the
first moment of leisure, & he does not doubt with satisfaction. he begs leave to add his acknolegements for the obliging expressions
[the rest illegible]
.”
Charles Pinckney Sumner, 1775?-1839, Boston lawyer, was a graduate of Harvard College.
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J. 2. BISHOP,
Abraham.
Proofs of a conspiracy, against Christianity, and the government of the United States; exhibited in several views of the union
of Church and State in New-England. By Abraham Bishop.
Hartford:
John Babcock, printer,
1802.
E310 .B62
