4to. 17 leaves.
Bound in brown buckram by the Library of Congress. The leaves were folded by Jefferson to 8vo. size, and the creases are still
in the paper.
On August 6, 1787, fourteen years before this claim by Beaumarchais’ daughter, in a letter from Paris to John Jay, Jefferson
wrote: “
. . . I hear also that M
r. Beaumarchais means to make himself heard, if a Memorial which he sends by an Agent in the present packet is not attended
to as he thinks it ought to be. he called on me with it, and desired me to recommend his case to a decision, & to note in
my despatch that it was the first time he had spoken to me on the subject. this is true, it being the first time I ever saw
him; but my recommendations would be as displaced as unnecessary. I assured him that Congress would do in that business what
justice should require & their means enable them to . . .
”
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, 1732-1799, gave active help to the Colonists during the American revolution. Under the name of Rodrigue Hortalez et Cie
he employed a fleet of forty ships to help the revolutionists.
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J. 12. ADAMS,
John, and ADAMS,
Samuel.
Four Letters: Being an Interesting Correspondence between Those Eminently Distinguished Characters, John Adams, Late President of the United States; and Samuel Adams, Late Governor of Massachusetts. On the Important Subject of Government.
Boston: Printed for
Adams & Rhoades,
1802.
JK171 .A26
8vo. 16 leaves.
Sabin 242.
Cronin and Wise, no. 32.
Unbound.
Sent to Jefferson by the publishers, whose letter is attached, dated from the Chronicle Office, Boston, August 18, 1802:
“
Sir
The inclosed Copies of a Correspondence, are most respectfully submitted by
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Your most obedient
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& very humble Servants
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Adams & Rhoades
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The President of the United States”
The letters are dated September 12, October 4, October 18, and November 20, 1790.
A manuscript copy of these letters is in the Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress, neatly written on 20 pages. At the end, in Jefferson’s
autograph, is his heading and statement:
Letters between John Adams and Samuel Adams.
the originals were communicated by S. Adams to Doct
r. Jarvis of Boston, who copied them & communicated the copy to Th: J. from which this copy was taken.
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1864 Catalogue, page 229, Census of the United States, First Decennial, for 1790. 8.
Washington, 1802. (Pol. Pam., v. 102.)
13.
First Census.
Return of the Whole Number of Persons within the Several Districts of the United States . . . Washington City: Printed by
William Duane,
1802.
HA201 1790B
8vo. 26 leaves.
The
Schedule of the whole number of Persons within the several Districts of the United States, taken according to An Act providing
for the Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States passed March the 1st, 1790
, at the beginning is signed and dated
Th: Jefferson. October 24th, 1791.
For a copy of the first Census 1791, see no. 3160.
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1864 Catalogue, page 229, . . . . . . . . . . . . The same. Second census. 1800. 8
o.
Washington, 1802. (Pol. Pam., v. 102.)
14.
Second Census.
Return of the Whole Number of Persons within the Several Districts of the United States: according to “An Act providing for
the second census or enumeration
