Jefferson replied from Monticello on April 20: “
. . . I well remember the merits of the Prospect before us, and the subsequent demerits of the miserable publisher. he was
a poor creature, sensible, hypocondriac, drunken, pennyless & unprincipled. I learn with satisfñ that your separñ from him
dated with his defflection from the path of merit, and that you are entitled to so much of the credit which has been given
to him exclusively . . .
”
The second volume of
The Prospect Before Us was published in 1801. From the above correspondence it is evident that Jefferson had a copy, but it was not delivered to
Congress after the sale in 1815.
During the debate on the purchase of Jefferson’s Library in the House of Representatives in October, 1814, Callender’s
Prospect Before Us was one of two books specifically mentioned as “objectionable” by the opponents of the purchase. See Annals of Congress,
vol. 28, page 398.
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J. 355
Callender’s Political progress. part. 2.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 95. no. 192, as above.
[CALLENDER,
James.]
The Political Progress of Britain . . . Part Second.
Philadelphia: Printed for
Richard Folwell, and sold in
New-York by
James Rivington,
1795.
DA480 .C255
Another copy of no. 3184 above.
Original calf. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. The name of the author written on the title-page (not by Jefferson). With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
[3519]
[ ]
British Treaty & pieces on it.
12
mo.
2 copies.
1815 Catalogue, page 94. no. 66, British treaty, and pieces on it, 12
mo.
This was entered by Jefferson, and in the 1815 Library of Congress Catalogue, in chapter 4, see no. 505.
For certain pieces on the British treaty in this chapter, see no. 3528 to 3532.
J. 356
American Remembrancer.
1795.
3. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 94. no. 266, as above.
The American Remembrancer; or, an impartial collection of essays, resolves, speeches, &c. relative, or having affinity, to
the Treaty with Great Britain.
Philadelphia: Printed by
Henry Tuckniss, for
Mathew Carey,
1795-6.
E314 .A48
First Edition. 3 vol., each containing four numbers, with separate titles, and the date of issue in each imprint: August 20, 27,
September 4, October 1, 10, 24, November 4, 14, 28, December 16, 28, 1795, January 20, 1796; each part numbered consecutively,
continuous signatures and pagination through each volume.
Sabin 1208.
Evans 28389.
Ford, Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana, 58, 59.
Original tree calf, red and green labels on the back with the title and volume number. Not initialled by Jefferson. The chapter
and shelf number (C 24 266) written on the title-page, not by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate in each volume. In this copy one leaf in No. X has been cut
away [Vol. III, sig. U
1, pages 141, 2].
Edited by Mathew Carey, whose Advertisement at the beginning reads:
It is intended, in the present Publication, to collect together the most valuable Essays, Resolutions, Speeches, &c. respecting
the Treaty between the United States and Great Britain.
In the Prosecution of this Plan, the Publisher pledges himself to observe the strictest impartiality, and on this Observance
rests his Pretensions to public Encouragement.
Authors include Camillus [Alexander Hamilton, King and Jay], Caius [Mathew Carey], Cato [R. R. Livingston], Decius [John Nicholas], Gracchio [John Thompson], and also Juricola, the Federalist, Atticus, Tully, Cinna, and others.
Contains references to Jefferson, with extracts from his speeches, letters, etc.
The American Remembrancer contains the complete set of thirty-eight numbers of the articles signed Camillus, originally printed
in the
Minerva.
According to John Adams, in a letter to his wife written on January 31, 1796, these articles were the joint work of Hamilton,
Rufus King, and John Jay:
