8vo. 8 leaves: [ ]
4; B
4; caption title. [punct.
sic--
Ed.] A manuscript note at the foot of page 2 is not by Jefferson.
Pages 13-16 contain the Address of the Baltimore Baptist Association, to Thomas Jefferson, President, dated 15 October, 1808,
and Jefferson’s Reply to the address, dated October 17. The original manuscripts of both these documents are in the Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress, the former with a covering letter from Charles
Peale Polk: “Having been appointed one of a Committee of the “Baltimore Baptist Association” now sitting in this City, to present to you
an Address, I take the liberty, most respectfully to enclose a Copy of it, and to inform you that the Committee of Five will
have the honor of waiting on you on Monday morning next at 9 o’Clock, if it shall suit your Convenience, to present the official
Address and to receive any answer which you may be pleased to make to it.”
[1703]
xxvi. [DUPONT
de NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel.]
Irénée Bonfils, sur la Religion de ses pères et de nos pères . . . A
Paris: chez
Fermin Didot [and others],
1808.
First Edition. 8vo. 10 leaves the last a blank; at the end: Extrait du Journal des Arts et des Sciences réuni à la Bibliothèque
Française.
Barbier II, 967.
Quérard II, 707.
Schelle, no. 94.
On the title Jefferson has written:
by Dupont de Nemours.
This may have been one of the pamphlets referred to by Jefferson in a letter to Dupont de Nemours dated from Washington, March
2, 1809: “
My last to you was of May 2. since which I have received yours of May 25. June 1. July 23-24. & Sep. 5. and distributed the
two pamphlets according to your desire. they are read with the delight which every thing from your pen gives . . .
”
[1704]
xxvii.
Sur les Institutions Religieuses dans l’Intérieur des familles; avec un Essai de Traduction nouvelle de l’Oraison Dominicale. Without name of place or printer, n.d.
8vo. 8 leaves, caption title.
[1705]
xxviii. GRAY,
James.
Present Duty. A Discourse, delivered on the 31st of December, 1808; which was observed, by concert, as a day of Public Thanksgiving
and Prayer, in several of the Churches in the City of Philadelphia. By James Gray, D.D. Pastor of the Associate Reformed Church. Published by the particular request of the Elders and Trustees of said Church.
Philadelphia: Printed by
Jane Aitken,
1809.
First Edition. 8vo. 19 leaves collating in fours.
Sabin 28396.
Sprague IX, 96.
James Gray, 1770-1824, was born in Ireland, and came to the United States in 1797.
[1706]
J. 184
Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 63. no. 47, Brown’s Account of the Shakers, 12mo.
BROWN,
Thomas.
An account of the people called Shakers: their faith, doctrines, and practice, exemplified in the Life, Conversations, and
Experience of the Author during the time he belonged to the Society. To which is affixed a History of their Rise and
