“ particular statement of them from the house in Richmond . . .”
The work is entered twice in Jefferson’s manuscript catalogue, in its chronological place, and as the last entry in the English histories. Jefferson’s inclusive nine-volume entry is copied in the 1815 printed catalogue. In the later catalogues
the two histories are separated and the eight-volume work is not credited to the Jefferson collection.
Catharine Macaulay, 1751-1791, English historian and controversialist, became Catharine Macaulay Graham on her second marriage. She visited
America in 1784, and in the following year stayed for ten days with George Washington at Mount Vernon.
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Home’s chronological abridgment of the hist. of Engl
d. to 1714.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 19. no. 8, as above.
HOME,
Charles.
A new chronological Abridgment of the History of England; from the Earliest Times to the Accession of the House of Hanover.
To each Reign is added a List of the Contemporary Princes of Europe. Written upon the Plan of the President Henault’s History
of France. By Charles Home, Esq.
Dublin: Printed for
G. Burnet,
P. Byrne,
P. Wogan,
A. Grueber [and others],
1792.
12mo. 184 leaves: A-P
12, Q
4.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Purchased from
Patrick Byrne, Philadelphia, pa. 77 in his catalogue, price $
1.00, ordered by Jefferson in a letter written on February 14, 1805.
Dedicated by Charles Home to the Lady Louisa Lenox. The first edition was published in London in 1791.
For the work by Henault, see no. 215.
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Anecdotes of the life of Chatham.
3. v.
8
vo.
1708-1778.
1815 Catalogue, page 17. no. 46, Anecdotes of the life of Lord Chatham, 1708-1778, 3 v 8vo.
[ALMON,
John.]
Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Hon. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. And of the Principal Events of his Time. With his Speeches
in Parliament, from the year 1736 to the year 1778 . . . In
Three Volumes. The
Sixth Edition, Corrected. Volume I [-III].
London: Printed for
L. B. Seeley,
1797.
DA483 .P6 A5
3 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 252 leaves; vol. II, 215 leaves; vol. III, 208 leaves.
Halkett and Laing I, 79.
Lowndes I, 424.
Sabin 63081.
Jefferson’s copy was bought from
Patrick Byrne, Philadelphia, pa. 62 in his catalogue, ordered in a letter written from Washington, on February 14, 1805.
The catalogue called for an edition in 2 volumes, 8vo. On February 22, Byrne wrote that “my edit. of Chathams Life being sold I have sent the London”; billed as Chatham’s Life. 3 Vols Lond. Edit. $
8.00.
This book frequently has a place on Jefferson’s recommended reading lists.
John Almon, 1737-1805, English bookseller and journalist, the compiler of these Anecdotes.
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, English statesman.
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