Rebound in half red morocco. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.

This copy, undoubtedly Jefferson’s, is numbered 4 on the title-page instead of 13, and seems to have formed part of another collection. The Library of Congress had at one time the copy from this volume of pamphlets, but it has been reported missing for a number of years.

Oliver Pollock, c. 1737-1823, born in Ireland, emigrated to Pennsylvania at the age of twenty-three. The State of Virginia was indebted to him for large sums during the Revolutionary war, and his inability to collect the money resulted in his own bankruptcy and consequent imprisonment. His efforts to collect the money were eventually successful, though as late as November 19, 1811, he wrote to Jefferson for his help in the matter. Jefferson replied on December 31 that “ . . . I really feel every disposition to do you justice by bearing witness to the services you rendered while agent for Virginia at N. Orleans, which my memory could enable me to do with sufficient certainty. but the obliteration from that of matters of detail cannot appear strange after a lapse of more than 30. years, and the unremitting & anxious occupations I was engaged in during the subsequent scenes of the revolutionary war, after them again in Europe, & latterly in our own country: during all of which the current events sufficed to engross my whole attention, while nothing called for a recurrence to the transactions in which you were interested, so as to retrace the impressions in my mind . . . ””

He then states that he has read Pollock’s Memorial and makes certain corrections in it. His letter ends: “ . . . I go into no examination of the particular claim stated in your Memorial. of that I know nothing. but I have such confidence in the justice of our legislature that I am satisfied if the claim be rightful, right will be done. ”

For a note on A. B. Woodward see no. 2176, and for the Supplement to the Representation, see no. 3467.

Unbound; cut into at the fore-edges; numbered 14 on the title-page.

William Hunter, 1774-1849, a native of Newport, was a graduate of Rhode Island College (Brown University). He was a United States Senator, and later minister plenipotentiary in Brazil. Hunter was a Federalist in politics.