J. 180
Tracts in religion, viz. on Amer. bishops. Linn’s Sermon. Goodrich’s do.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 68. no. 140, Tracts in Religion--to wit, on American bishops, Linn’s Sermon, Goodrich’s Sermon. 8vo.
Three tracts bound together for Jefferson in one volume, 8vo, tree calf by John March (in August 1805, cost 62½ cents); the
number 10 in gilt in the third compartment on the back, above which a later label lettered
Miscellaneous /
Pamphlets /. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
AC901 .M5 vol. 10.
i. CHANDLER,
Thomas Bradbury.
[
The Appeal farther defended; in Answer to the Farther Misrepresentations of Dr. Chauncy. By Thomas B. Chandler, D.D.
New-York: Printed by
Hugh Gaine,
1771.]
First Edition. 8vo. Imperfect copy, lacking the title and some preliminary leaves; the text begins on B
1, B
4 is torn away; the errata leaf is present. The running headlines are “The Appeal Farther Defended.”
Sabin 11875.
Evans 12007.
Ford I, 127.
Sprague V, 140.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. On page v of the Contents (the first present page) has been written in ink, possibly by Jefferson,
blue boards.
Thomas Bradbury Chandler, 1726-1790, Anglican clergyman and loyalist, was born in Connecticut. This is the third of three pamphlets prepared by him
at the request of the clergy of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, for the sending of bishops to America. The original
Appeal
was published in 1767, and
The Appeal defended
in 1769.
Charles Chauncy, 1705-1787, anti-Episcopalian clergyman, published
A Reply to Dr. Chandler
in 1768, and
A Reply to Dr. Chandler’s Rejoinder
in 1770.
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ii. LINN,
William.
The Blessings of America. A Sermon, preached in the Middle Dutch Church, on the Fourth July, 1791, being the Anniversary of
the Independence of America: At the Request of the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order. By William Linn, D.D.
New-York: Printed by
Thomas Greenleaf,
m, dcc, xc, i
. [1791]
First Edition. 8vo. 20 leaves collating in fours, including the half-title. The last 2 leaves for:
An Ode, composed for the Occasion, at the Request of the Society. By Dr. William Pitt Smith. At the end:
Set to music by Mr. Van Hagen. 1791.
Sabin 41342.
Evans 23504.
Sprague IX, page 77.
On page 32 is a footnote reference to Jefferson’s
Notes on the State of Virginia
.
Sent to Jefferson by the author, who wrote from New York on July 18, 1791: “Allow me to present you a sermon on the blessings of that country, the character & privileges of which you have ably & successfully
vindicated, & of which you are among its greatest ornaments.”
Jefferson replied from Philadelphia on July 31: “
I am to return you my thanks for the copy of the sermon you were so good as to send me, which I have perused with very great
pleasure. it breathes that spirit of pure fraternity which exists in nature among all religions, & would make the ornament
of all: and with the blessings we derive from religious liberty, makes us also sensible how highly we ought to value those
of a temporal nature with which we are surrounded . . .
”
William Linn, 1752-1808, Reformed Dutch minister. See also no. 3226.
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