Memoir of the Moheagan Indians.
iii. [HOLMES,
Abiel.]
A Memoir of the Moheagan Indians. Written in the year M. DCCC. IV. [
Boston:
Massachusetts Historical Society,
1804.]
E99 .M83 H74
8vo. 14 leaves.
Sabin 49858 [without name of author, place of printing or date].
Field 710.
Pilling,
Algonquian Languages,
234.
Unbound, enclosed in a slip case.
This pamphlet and the following number were presentations from the author, who on October 18, 1804, wrote to Jefferson: “Knowing your taste for history, I take the liberty to offer you one or two historical tracts, composed for the Historical
Society, and published for their Collections . . .”
This is the first separate edition of the
Memoir, which was first printed in the Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, vol. 9, 1804. This separate pamphlet has no
title page; it has a half title and a captaion title at the head of the text; the pagination has been rearranged and runs
from [1] to 27; the signatures are as in the Collections volume. References to Thomas Jefferson’s
Notes on Virginia
, with explanatory footnotes, occur.
For a note on Abiel Holmes, see no. 444.
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Holmes’s History of Cambridge.
iv. HOLMES,
Abiel.
The History of Cambridge. By Abiel Holmes, A.M. A Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society . . .
Boston: Printed by
Samuel Hall,
1801.
F74 .C1 H7
8vo. 36 leaves.
Bound by the Library of Congress in blue buckram in 1921.
Presentation copy from the author, sent on October 18, 1804 (see the previous number), with his autograph inscription on the
fly-leaf: “
To the Hon. Thomas Jefferson Esq. President of the United States with the respects of The Author.”
This is the first separate edition of this work, originally published in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society,
vol. 7, 1801. It contains much interesting material including an account of the first edition of Eliot’s Indian Bible.
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