24 leaves. The dedicatory epistle is dated Monday morning, 17th Nov. 1806.
Halkett and Laing IV, 204.
Sabin 50829 [1816].
At the foot of the first page is written in ink (and partly cut away by the binder):
This little pamphlet was written at the request of a European Gentleman travelling for information in the U. [
S.] /
By an Ameri[
can]
Gouverneur Morris, 1752-1816, statesman and diplomat, was the brother-in-law of Thomas Mann Randolph. Other pamphlets by him appear in this
catalogue.
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3. DAVEISS,
Joseph Hamilton
A View of the President’s Conduct, concerning the Conspiracy of 1806. By J. H. Daveiss, Late Attorney of the United States, for Kentucky.
Frankfort, Kentucky: From the press of [
Joseph M. Street,
1807.]
8vo. 32 leaves. Title-page defective, one sheet misbound and several mutilated, the text of the cut away passages supplied
in manuscript; margins cut into.
Sabin 18684.
McMurtrie 263.
Jillson, page 39.
Wandell, page 85.
Johnston, page 35.
Letters which passed between the author and Jefferson are printed in this pamphlet, the originals and polygraph copies of which are in the Jefferson papers in the Library of Congress.
Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, 1774-1811, District Attorney of Kentucky. In letters quoted in this pamphlet written during 1806 Daveiss drew the attention
of Jefferson to the movements of Aaron Burr. On his failure to establish a charge of conspiracy by Burr against the United
States, Daveiss was removed by Jefferson from office, and wrote this pamphlet to explain his position.
A note states that the manuscript extracts were made by P. R. Fendall from a copy in the Philadelphia Public Library.
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4. SMITH,
James.
The Commonwealth’s Man: in a Series of Letters, addressed to the Citizens of New-York. By James Smith, M.D.
New-York: Printed by
A. Forman, For the Author,
1806.
8vo. 23 leaves, list of the errata on the last page.
On the title is written in ink:
From the Author; a few manuscript corrections in the text.
On page iv of the Preface:
. . . The arguments contained within this short essay are the fruits of a few hours leisure, during the author’s rural retirement,
in the season of the late Malignant Epidemic; and when his professional duties were rendered useless, partly by the flight
of the inhabitants, and more so by the Democratic ascendancy of misplaced power, blinded by ignorance, under the guidance
of domineering and insulting misrule . . .
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5. [MORRIS,
Gouverneur.]
An Answer to War in Disguise; or, Remarks upon the New Doctrine of England, concerning Neutral Trade . . .
New-York: Printed by
Hopkins and
Seymour, for
J. Riley & Co.,
February, 1806.
First Edition. Another copy of no. 2118.
A manuscript correction in the text.
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6.
An Inquiry into the Present State of the Foreign Relations of the Union, as Affected by the Late Measures of Administration
. . .
Published by
Samuel F. Bradford,
Philadelphia;
Brisban & Brannan,
New-York;
William Andrews,
Boston; and the Principal Booksellers in the United States,
1806. [Copy-right secured.]
