First Edition. 8vo. 72 leaves collating in eights (some leaves foxed). The Dedication to the Religious of every Profession signed
by Thomas Ledlie Birch from Point-Pleasant, near Washington, Pennsylvania, 3d October, 1805.
Thomas Ledlie Birch, d. 1808.
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xvi. EMERSON,
William.
A Sermon, delivered to the First Church in Boston, on the Lord’s Day after the calamitous Death of Mr. Charles Austin, member
of the senior class in the University of Cambridge, which happened Aug. 4, 1806, in the nineteenth year of his age. By William Emerson, Pastor of the Church.
Second Edition . . .
Boston: Printed at the
Emerald Press by
Belcher and Armstrong, n.d. [
1806]
8vo. 12 leaves including the half-title and the last blank, collating in fours. Badly damp-stained.
Sabin 22465.
Sprague VIII, 243.
This may be the “
enclos’d Discourse” referred to by Benjamin Austin, the father of Charles, in a letter written to Jefferson from Boston on August 15, 1806, eleven
days after the tragedy, in which Charles Austin was shot by his father’s political enemy, Thomas O. Selfridge. Benjamin Austin’s
letter read: “The melancholy Event which occasioned the inclos’d Discourse, I presume is well known to you by the publick Papers.--
"I take the freedom to send one for your perusal that you may form some judgment of the Character, which has thus fallen a
Victim, if not to party rage, yet to the hands of Violence.--
"Excuse me Sir for nor enlarging on this distressing subject, for as a Father you can better conceive, than I can describe.”
William Emerson, 1769-1811, Unitarian clergyman, and the father of Ralph Waldo Emerson, was minister of the Unitarian Church at Harvard.
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xvii. BENTLEY,
William.
A Sermon, before the Governor, the Honorable Council, and both Branches of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
on the Day of General Election, May 27, 1807. By William Bentley, A.M. Minister of the Second Church in Salem.
Boston: Printed by
Adams and Rhoades, printers to the State,
1807.
First Edition. 8vo. 14 leaves including the half-title and the last blank, collating in fours.
Sabin 4775.
Sprague VIII, 155.
William Bentley, 1759-1819, Unitarian clergyman, a Jeffersonian Republican in politics, was a friend of Jefferson who offered him
[
sic
--
Ed.
] the presidency of the projected University of Virginia.
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xviii.
The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting, held in London, by Adjournments, from the 22d. to the 31st. of the Fifth Month, 1805,
inclusive, to the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings of Friends, in Great Britain, Ireland, and elsewhere.
[
Baltimore: Printed by
Cole & Hewes,
1806.]
2 leaves folio, folded. Caption title, imprint and title, The Yearly Meeting’s Epistle, 1805 on the last page.
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xix.
A Brief Account of the Proceedings of the Committee, appointed by the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in Baltimore, for promoting
the improvement and civilization of the Indian Natives.
Baltimore: Printed by
Cole & Hewes,
1805.
8vo. 24 leaves collating in fours. Signed at the end: Philip E. Thomas, Clerk. Baltimore, 11th Mo. 1805. Some corrections in ink.
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