On November 16 Callender wrote to Jefferson: “I gave M
r. Jefferson [i.e., George Jefferson, Jefferson’s agent] some days ago, from p. 9 to p. 48 inclusive of the Prospect, to be
sent to you. Having the opportunity of a private hand, I now send forward 16 additional pages. There is much bad print in
it . . .”
On December 18 Callender wrote to Jefferson, now in Philadelphia: “. . . On friday I shall take the freedom of sending to you 50 or 60 additional pages of the Prospect . . .”
On February 15, 1800, after the publication of
The Prospect, Callender wrote to Jefferson in Philadelphia: “. . . The Prospect goes off very well to many parts of the Country. About 500 are sent off and many more bespoke, but not
yet sent. A parcel will come to Philadelphia, as soon as the River opens. Chancellor Wythe is the law officer referred to
in the inclosed, as speaking of the Prospect. Colonel Quarrier went to fight a duel with Major William Preston, at Manchester,
and let his pistol go off thro’ his own foot; so the duel ended for that time. I have begun extending a clean Copy of Vol.
2
d of The Prospect, for the Staunton
Scourge of Aristocracy
, set up by Lyon; as all depends on haste, and the momentuous month of October. It will be there first printed in separate
pieces, or at least a part of it. They wanted to burn the office of the Scourge. Vid next
Examiner
. . .
"P. S. Some weeks ago, M
r George Jefferson sent you a complete copy of The Prospect per post.”
On March 10 Callender wrote to Jefferson: “I now inclose for you a number of the
Republican
, along with the last number of the Examiner, containing a Copy of the letter from you.
Some errata!
"The Second Part of
The Prospect will be continued in the
Republican, and reprinted at Staunton, and all, or part of it, in the
national magazine
.
"I had once entertained the romantic hope of being able to overtake the federal Government in its career of iniquity; but
I am now satisfied that they can
act must faster than I can
write after them.
"I will send you the Continuation of the second part of The Prospect . . .
"P. S. Every Engine has been set at work to do me all kinds of mischief, since I Came here; the Satisfaction of knowing that
they are excedingly provoked is to me a partial Compensation for the inconvenience of being belied and Stared at, as if I
was a Rhinoceros . . .”
On March 14, in a letter concerned with other matters, Callender reported to Jefferson that “
The Prospect is already more than half sold.”
On April 21, Callender wrote to Jefferson: “I inclose two newspapers. I mean to go to Petersburg in 8 or 10 days to begin printing Part 2 of Prospect . . .”
On August 14, Callender wrote from Richmond Jail to Jefferson at Monticello: “This letter will inclose a few pages of the second part of The Prospect. They contain nothing but what I fancy that you have
seen already, as I sent you regularly the Petersburg paper, wherein they were printed. But next week, I shall send some Sheets,
that you have not seen before. A half volume will be ready, priced half a dollar, in about a fortnight. I have by me as much
manuscript as would fill two volumes, and materials, for twice as much more, so that, like the ass between the two bundles
of hay, I am at a loss where to begin, or stop. I have been in very bad health, owing to the stink of this place, but I have
got some better.
"M
r. Rose, my worthy landlord, desires you to accept of his compliments . . .”
On September 13, in the letter from Richmond Jail describing Gabriel’s Insurrection [see no. 3240 above], Callender wrote to Jefferson: “. . . I find much difficulty in getting the Prospect printed, from the sickness of one hand, the ”
