“ pliments: I have long wished for the opportunity of paying my respects to you in person; and I hope at the close of this
month to have that honor . . .”
William Moultrie, 1730-1805, Revolutionary general and Governor of South Carolina, was a friend of Jefferson. His
Memoirs are important source material for the history of the Revolution in South Carolina.
[494]
J.51
Memoirs of General Lee.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 24. no. 56, Memoirs of General Charles Lee, 8vo.
[LANGWORTHY,
Edward.]
Memoirs of the Life of the late Charles Lee, Esq. Lieutenant Colonel of the Forty Fourth Regiment, Colonel in the Portuguese
Service, Major-General, and aid du camp to the King of Poland, and Second in Command in the Service of the United States of
America during the Revolution: to which are added his Political and Military Essays; also, Letters to, and from many distinguished
Characters, both in Europe and America.
Dublin: Printed for Messrs
P. Byrne,
J. Moore [and others],
1792.
E207 .L47 L4
8vo. 225 leaves.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Sabin 38903.
Rebound in half red morocco in 1903 by the Library of Congress. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. Some passages marked
in pencil and one or two small corrections made in ink.
Charles Lee, 1731-1782, an Englishman by birth, was originally in the English army. He became a soldier of fortune and served as a general
during the Revolutionary War. In 1785 Edward Langworthy, 1738-1802, a member of the Continental Congress for Georgia, came
into possession of his papers, and published these memoirs, with many errors in the dates and the names of the correspondents.
The first edition was printed in London 1792, the preface dated Feb. 1792.
[495]
J.52
Washington’s life by Marshall.
5 vols.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 25. no. 61, Washington’s life by Marshall, 5 v. 8vo.
MARSHALL,
John.
The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces, during the war which established the Independence
of his Country, and First President of the United States. Compiled under the inspection of the Honourable Bushrod Washington,
from Original Papers bequeathed to him by his deceased relative, and now in possession of the author. To which is prefixed,
an Introduction, containing a compendious view of the Colonies planted by the English on the Continent of North America, from
their settlement to the commencement of that war which terminated in their Independence. By John Marshall. Vol. I [-V].
Philadelphia: Printed and Published by
C. P. Wayne,
1804,
5,
7.
E312 .M33 Copy 2
First Edition. 5 vol. 8vo. in fours. Vol. I, 279 leaves; engraved portrait frontispiece of Washington by D. Edwin (backed); vol. II, 320 leaves; vol. III, 308 leaves; vol. IV, 326 leaves; vol. V, 412 leaves; lower case alphabets at the
end of each volume are for the Notes, with separate pagination. The volume of plates and subscribers’ names is absent.
Sabin 44788.
Baker, no. 49.
Vol. I-IV in contemporary calf, rebacked and with new end papers, vol. V rebound in half morocco. Initialled by Jefferson
at sig. I and T throughout (vol. I at sig. I only).
