Sowerby Catalogue Volume III : page 350

8vo. 4 leaves; signed at the end James Smith, M. D.

Sabin 82775.

Rebound in blue buckram; numbered 28 on the title-page.

Written in support of Graham’s diatribe against Bradley, above.

James Smith was the brother of William Smith, the historian of New York.

On the title-page is written James Smith, possibly by himself.

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1864 Catalogue, page 387, Elwyn, (Thomas.) Letter to a Federalist on the present Administration. (Pol. Pam., v. 104.) 8 ^o. Portsmouth, N. H.,) [punct. sic.-- Ed.] 1805.

29. [ELWYN, Thomas.]

A Letter to a Federalist, in Reply to Some of the Popular Objections to the Motives and Tendency of the Measures of the Present Administration. February, 1805. [ Portsmouth, N. H. From the Chronicle-Office, 1805.]

E331 .E52

First Edition. Sm. 8vo. 16 leaves, printer’s imprint at the end.

Sabin 22375.

Johnston, page 34.

Rebound in blue buckram, numbered 29 in ink on the title-page.

A defense of Jefferson; sent to Jefferson by the author who has written on the title-page From your most faithful Sert, The Author. and on the last page he has written a list of the “Principal Errata”, in four lines.

Jefferson has written on the title-page: by Thomas Elwyn. Portsmouth N. H.

On March 8, 1805, Jefferson wrote from Washington to Elwyn: “ Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to m( ^~ r) Elwyn & his thanks for the pamphlet he has been so kind as to send him, and which he shall peruse with pleasure in his first spare moment. he had before observed what was said in the Chronicle of it’s conciliatory tendency. some are of opinion that attempts at conciliation are useless. this is true only as to distinguished leaders who had committed themselves so far that their pride will not permit them to correct themselves. but it is not true as to the mass of those who had been led astray by an honest confidence in the government & by misinformation. the great majority of these has already reconciled itself to us, & the rest are doing so as fast as the natural progress of opinion will permit. he presents his friendly salutations to M ^r Elwyn. ”

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J. 333

Local politics. 8 ^vo.

1815 Catalogue, page 100. no. 304, Local Politics, 1802-5, 8vo 2 v.

i. Thirteen pamphlets bound together for Jefferson in one volume 8vo., half calf, by John March, in August 1805 (cost 62½ cents); with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate. The pamphlets numbered serially in ink on the title-pages.

JA36 .P8 Vol. 103

The contents of the volume are listed by Jefferson on the fly-leaf:

Lysander’s Annals of the Corporation of N. York.

Mercer’s Letter on the Ten pound court

Observations on the Militia of N. York

Cheetham’s Remarks on the Merchants bank

Difference on the powers of Gov ^r. & Council of N. York

Influence of Bank-directors in Maryland.

Washington Phoenix fire-company.

D ^r. Thornton v. Latrobe.

Memorial of the city of Washington

Woodward on the gov( ^~m ) t of Columbia

[ Gov ^r. ] Monroe’s Letter to the Virginia assembly

Report of Committee on the same.

Worthington’s Communication to the N. Western territory.

Address of the Cons( ^~t ) nal republican of Philadelphia.

It will be noticed that Jefferson made an error in no. 5, where N. York should have read Maryland.

The last named tract is no longer in the volume.