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Not in the Manuscript Catalogue.
1815 Catalogue, page 157, no. 38. Orations of the 4th of July, 8vo.
This volume of orations is marked missing in the contemporary working copy of the Library of Congress Catalogue of 1815, and is omitted from all the later catalogues. It is entered in the manuscript list of missing books made at a later date.
From Jefferson’s correspondence it is possible to reconstruct the volume as follows:

MILLER, Samuel.
A Sermon, Preached in New York, July 4th, 1793. Being the Anniversary of the Independence of America: at the Request of the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order. By Samuel Miller, A.M. One of the Ministers of the United Presbyterian Churches, in the City of New-York. New-York: Printed by Thomas Greenleaf, n.d. [ 1793.]
E286 .N6 1793
Jefferson had another copy of this pamphlet, in a volume of political pamphlets, see no. 2815.
[4681]
CHARLTON, Thomas Usher Pulaski.
Oration, in Commemoration, of American Independence; Delivered at the Exchange, in the City of Savannah, July 3d, 1802. By Thomas U. P. Charlton, Esq. Savannah, Georgia: Printed by Seymour, Woolhopter & Stebbins. 1802.
E286 .S27 1802
8vo. 8 leaves.
Sabin 12152 (in the note).
Not in De Renne.
This oration was sent to Jefferson from Savannah by Samuel Morse, August 9, 1802: “I have the pleasure to inclose you a copy of an oration delivered on the 3d of July, the day chosen by the citizens of this place for the commemoration of our independence. This oration is the very hasty production of a young friend of mine, who is now aid to gen. Jackson. I persuade myself that you will receive some pleasure in the evidence he gives of the firmness of his republicanism, though, taking the expressions in a different sense, he disagrees with you on the subject of the unanimity of national sentiment . . .”
Thomas Usher Pulaski Charlton, 1779-1835, jurist and author, was attorney-general for the State of Georgia.
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THACHER, Stephen.
An Oration, Pronounced at Kennebunk, District of Maine, on the Anniversary of American Independence, July 4, 1803. By Stephen Thacher . . . Boston: Printed by David Carlisle, 1803.
A copy of this oration was bound by Jefferson in a volume of political pamphlets. See no. 3298.
[4683]
PORTER, John Ewing.
Oration in Commemoration of American Independence; delivered . . . to . . . the Lysian Society on Wednesday, July the Fourth, 1804. Philadelphia: Printed for the Lysian Society by John Bioren, 1804.
8vo. 8 leaves; a copy was not seen; the above title is taken from the card of the American Philosophical Society in the National Union Catalog and from Sabin.
Sabin 64279 (with the reading Lycian in the imprint).
Sent to Jefferson by the author, with a letter dated from Philadelphia August 2, 1804:

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