First Edition. 80 leaves including the last blank. Many passages scored under.
Sabin 34735.
Not in Johnston.
Sent to Jefferson by Ingersoll who wrote from Philadelphia on November 26, 1808: “With this letter I presume to send you a pamphlet I have just published, on the foreign relations of the United States--which
I beg you to accept, and if you have liesure, to look over.--It is the essay of a very young man--in many respects deficient,
and in many more faulty--but as it was written with the best intentions, and in a temper of mind wholly American, and has
not besides the sanction of a name to give it authority I trust if it does no good, it cannot possibly do harm--When you shall
take the trouble to read it, if you will honor me with your sentiments concerning it I shall consider myself much indebted
to your condescension.”
Charles Jared Ingersoll, 1782-1862, lawyer, author and Congressman, was born in Philadelphia. This anti-British pamphlet is in favor of Jefferson
and the Embargo, and against Federalism.
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17. [BROWN,
Charles Brockden.]
An Address to the Congress of the United States, on the utility and justice of restrictions upon foreign commerce. With reflections
on foreign trade in general, and the future prospects of America.
Philadelphia: Published by
C. & A. Conrad & Co.,
John Binns, printer,
1809.
First Edition. 52 leaves, the last two for the Supplement. The Advertisement signed
C. B. B. and dated from Philadelphia, January 3, 1809.
Sabin 8456.
Not in Johnston.
Sent to Jefferson by George Logan, who has written on the title-page,
Tho
s. Jefferson from his friend Geo Logan
. In a later hand are the initials of the author,
C. B. B.
Charles Brockden Brown, 1771-1810, is best known as the first novelist and professional author in the United States.
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