Charles Brockden Brown, the young Gentleman of considerable talents & learning referred to above. It began in April 1799 and expired in December
1800.
Charles Brockden Brown, 1771-1810. See also no. 4898, and for other references to him, see the Index.
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Weekly magazine, 1798.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 170, no. 23, The Weekly Magazine, 2 v 8vo 1798.
The Weekly Magazine of Original Essays, Fugitive Pieces, and Interesting Intelligence. Vol. I. February 3. . . . . . . . . .April 28. [-Vol. II. May 5. . . . . . . . . .July 28.] With an Appendix of State Papers.
Philadelphia: Printed and Published by
James Watters & Co. and sold at the Printing Office, Laetitia Court; at
James Watters’s, Willing’s Alley; by Mr.
Alexander Somerville,
New York; Mr.
George Hill,
Baltimore; and the Principal Booksellers in this City.
1798.
AP2 .A2 W4
2 vol. 8vo. Plates; at the end of each volume, with half-title is Appendix to Volume I. [-II.] of the Weekly Magazine. Containing
the Message of the President of the United States, to Both Houses of Congress. Delivered April Third [-May 4th], 1798 . .
.
Jefferson’s copy was bound by John March on October 11, 1802, price “
$1.25.”
The Weekly Magazine was suspended in July 1798 owing to the death from yellow fever of James Watters, the proprietor and editor. It resumed publication the following February under the editorship of Ezekiel Forman. One of the principal contributors to Volumes I and II was Charles Brockden Brown, whose
The Man at Home
and
Arthur Mervyn
are here printed. At the beginning of Volume I is a list of patrons (6 pages, double columns) which includes Thomas Jefferson,
Esq., the Esq. being an honor he shares only with John Baker, Alexander I. Dallas, Mahlon Dickerson, James M’Henry, James
Milnor and Oliver Wolcott.
Jefferson’s name occurs in the Appendix to Volume II.
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National Magae. [
i.e. “
Magaz.”?--
Ed.]
8
vo.
1800.
1815 Catalogue, page 170, no. 24, The National Magazine, 8vo 1800.
1839 Catalogue, page 677, no.
J. 103, National Magazine, for 1799-1800, 8vo; Richmond, 1799-1800.
National Magazine; or, A Political, Historical, Biographical, and Literary Repository, for June 1, 1799. Twenty Third Year
of American Independence. Number I. Volume I. [-Volume II, No. VIII]
Four Dollars per Annum. By James Lyon . . .
Richmond, Virginia: Printed by and for the Editor,
1799. [-
District of Columbia,
1800]
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8vo. all published. Jefferson’s manuscript and the 1815 Library of Congress catalogue list the volume for 1800 only. The later Library of Congress catalogues credit
the Jefferson collection with one volume, 1799-1800. As Jefferson was in correspondence with James Lyon it seems probable that he would have the complete work, though bound in one volume.
The
National Magazine was concerned primarily with the affairs of the United States, and contains references to Jefferson. Some of the more important
of these are:
Vol. I, No. I, page 68; the contrasted opinions of Jefferson and John Adams, the former extracted from the
Notes on Virginia
, the latter from an
Answer of President Adams, to an Address from the Marine Society of Boston
.
Vol. II, No. VI, page 180; extract from Jefferson’s
Notes on Virginia: The Different Religions Received into the State of Virginia.
Vol. II, No. VII, page 209; Agricola; to the People of Maryland. In defence of Mr. Jefferson; page 226, Mr. Jefferson (a character
of Jefferson, signed Amfricanus
[
sic
] and dated from Pennsylvania, July, 1800.); page 232,
