A 
 
 (Selection of 
 Books and 
 Manuscripts 
 from the 
 Library of 
 Mary and 
 Harry L. Dalton 
 
 Duke University 
 William R. Perkins 
 Library 1977 
 
Digitized by the Internet Archive 
 in 2014 
 
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An Exhibition of 
 
 A SELECTION OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS 
 from the Library of 
 Mary and Harry L. Dalton 
 
 Compiled by 
 
 Sharon E. Knapp, Manuscript Department 
 and 
 
 John L. Sharpe III, Curator of Rare Books 
 
 Duke University 
 William R. Perkins Library 
 1977 
 
Introduction 
 
 All of his life Harry Dalton has been a bibliophile and a collector. Even before he and his 
 wife Mary began assembling one of the largest private art collections in the Southeast, he was 
 buying books and manuscripts. The particular items which he gathered followed the range of his 
 literary and historical interests and tastes which he developed while a student at Trinity 
 College — before it became Duke University. More than any other influence, his liberal arts 
 education is reflected in the books and manuscripts which have found a place in the Dalton 
 Collection. 
 
 First editions, association copies, important titles, along with an extensive gathering of 
 manuscripts and letters from people important in Colonial and Revolutionary American history, 
 the Old South, and the Confederacy form the body of his library. Two items, however, are 
 notable above all others: the vellum leaf from the Gutenberg Bible and the three-page letter 
 written from the island of Corsica by the young Napoleon on behalf of his mother — the earliest 
 letter in the Napoleon corpus. 
 
 In this diverse collection one finds letters and documents written by Benjamin Franklin and 
 books from his press in Philadelphia; letters written by George Washington and a copy of 
 Barlow's Vision of Columbus presented by the first President to Mrs. George Clymer; letters by 
 Thomas Jefferson and a book from his library; letters by Presidents John Adams, James Mon- 
 roe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Abraham Lincoln, and Ulysses 
 S. Grant, to name a few; letters by British sovereigns, poets, and generals; and letters and records 
 from the Old South and the Civil War: letters by Robert E. Lee, Braxton Bragg, "Jeb" Stuart, 
 General Beauregard, William Gilmore Simms, Jefferson Davis, Joel Chandler Harris, and Wil- 
 liam Tecumseh Sherman; and reports of the Battles of Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Manas- 
 sas Plain. 
 
 Three items of particular association interest are a writing desk, a purse, and a fan. The desk 
 was presented to the Scottish poet Robert Burns by Dugald Stewart, the British philosopher who 
 was Burns's neighbor in Ayr when the poet was farming with his brother Gilbert. The 
 philosopher made a gift of the desk to the poet on January 25, 1787, soon after the appearance 
 of the Kilmarnoch edition of Poems, chiefly in the Scotish Dialect in 1786. The knit purse was the 
 wedding present of Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning on September 12, 1846, when they 
 were married at St. Marlebone Church. One week after the clandestine marriage — witnessed 
 only by Elizabeth Wilson, Miss Barrett's faithful maid, and James Silverthorne, Mr. Browning's 
 cousin — the couple left for Casa Guidi in Florence where they lived until her death in 1861. The 
 "Autograph Fan" — signed by Presidents, cabinet members, and, among others, Japanese 
 statesmen — is given a full description in the catalogue. 
 
 A flock of notables which have already become part of the Dalton Collection in the Rare 
 Book Room and the Manuscript Department of Perkins Library, are not described in the 
 catalogue although they deserve mention as further evidence of the Daltons' collecting assiduity. 
 A copy of the German translation of the Niirnberg Chronicle in a sixteenth-century German 
 pigskin binding, a host of Dickens's first editions in the original parts, a splendid tenth-century 
 Four-Gospel manuscript in Greek (Codex Daltonianus: Duke Greek Ms. 60), a covey of Wilde first 
 editions many of which are signed by the author, the fourth folio edition of Shakespeare's Works, 
 and a large cohesive collection of nineteenth-century manuscripts. Other items from Dalton 
 collection not included among the descriptions here are books and manuscripts which must await 
 another catalogue and exhibition: some seventy-five fore-edge and double fore-edge paintings, 
 incunabula, first editions, and an assortment of Americana — books and manuscripts. When the 
 entire collection is recorded, it will represent a signal literary and historical resource, an impres- 
 sive collecting achievement. 
 
A word about the entries in the catalogue. For each book the title is transcribed with the 
 spelling unchanged and the important words capitalized; the format and the binding are noted; 
 the edition is cited and where applicable distinguishing bibliographical particulars are listed; 
 when present, the ex libris is cited as are other marks of ownership; pertinent biographical and 
 bibliographical notes are added, and in many cases a remark is made about the particular item in 
 the Dalton Collection. 
 
 The arrangement of the books is according to several categories, beginning with the vellum 
 leaf from the Gutenberg Bible and a printed Book of Hours. There follow in order: Association 
 Copies, Firsts and Early English Imprints, American First Editions, Franklin Imprints and As- 
 sociations, The Lancaster Massacre and Papoonahoal, Description and Travel, Fore-edge Paint- 
 ings, and Manuscript Books. 
 
 For the manuscripts, the entry is under the name of the author of the document with an 
 appropriate description of the document, the name of the recipient, the date of the letter or 
 document, and an explanatory note about the item, its author and contents. As nearly as possible 
 the original spelling and capitalization have been retained in the titles and excerpts. 
 
 The manuscripts have been arranged in several groups: Colonial and Revolutionary 
 Periods, Early National Era, Presidential Autographs, Great Britain, The Civil War and its 
 Leaders, The South, American Writers, and A Supplementary Calendar. 
 
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 A Leaf from the Gutenberg Bible 
 
A LEAF FROM THE GUTENBERG BIBLE 
 
 A leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, printed on vellum. 42 
 lines, double columns, rubricated in blue and red; 13% 
 x IOV4 inches. 
 
 Mainz: Johann Gutenberg, 1450-5. 
 
 This leaf, which was used at one time as a vellum binding for a book, 
 displays a portion of chapter 9, the whole of chapter 10 and most of 
 chapter 1 1 of the book of Leviticus. 
 
 These chapters treat on many interesting laws including that which 
 forbids priests to drink wine when they enter into the tabernacle and 
 the distinction between clean and unclean animals. 
 
 BOOK OF HOURS 
 
 Heures a l'usaige de Romme tout au long sans riens 
 requerir, avec les figures de la vie de l'homme et la de- 
 struction de Hierusalem. 
 Paris, Gillet Hardouyn, 1514 (?). 
 
 74 leaves; 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Early eighteenth-century binding in deep red 
 
 French morocco, dentelle borders and the device of the owner in the center of 
 
 each cover, within a gold-tooled ribboned frame. 
 
 Collation: A 8 (-2,3,6,7), B 8 (-4,5), C 8 (-7,8), D 8 (-7), 
 
 E 8 (-7), F - I 8 , K 8 (-4,5), L 8 (-4,5), M 8 (-1-8). 
 
 Printed on vellum, each page with elaborate wood-cut borders. 
 
 Contents: 
 
 Al r : Title-page and miniature, enclosed in gold framing, of the rape 
 of Deianeira by the Centaur Nessus, with Hercules coming to her 
 assistance. Hanging in a tree is a shield bearing a coat of arms, 
 the same as at the end, after the colophon, on L8 1 '. (full color) 
 
 A 1 ! : Illuminations and colored figures on astrology and the humors of 
 
 the body, (full color) 
 A4-5: Calendar of the saints, from June through December. 
 A5": At foot: "Initium sancti euangelii secundum Johannem. Gloria 
 
 tibi domine." 
 
 A8 1 ': Full-page miniature: Christ felling Roman soldiers (at Resurrec- 
 tion?) while aposdes sleep, (full color) 
 
 B3": Gold initials with alternating red and blue backgrounds begin 
 here. 
 
 B6 r : Matins (from beginning of Invitatory on). 
 
 C3 r : Full-page miniature: announcement of nativity to shepherds, 
 (full color) 
 
 Dl r : Full-page miniature: Holy Spirit descending upon Mary and 
 
 apostles, (full color) 
 D2 r : Full-page miniature: birth of Christ, (full color) 
 D4": Full-page miniature: Gloria in excelsis Deo. (full color) 
 El 1 ': Full-page miniature: Circumcision (Presentation in temple): 
 
 "Nunc dimittis . . ." (full color) 
 E4 r : Full-page miniature: murder of innocents, (full color) 
 F6 1 : Full-page miniature: "Sequuntur septem psalmi penitentiales . . ." 
 
 (full color) 
 
 F7 r : Full-page miniature: Purification, (full color) 
 G5": Full-page miniature: "Sequuntur vigilie mortuorum . . ." (full 
 color) 
 
 G6 r : Full-page miniature: Raising of Lazarus. "Dilexi quoniam . . ." 
 (full color) 
 
 I4 r : Beginning of 21 illuminated historiated initials showing scenes 
 
 from lives of Christ, Mary, and the saints. 
 L8 1 ': Illuminated coat of arms (see Al r ). 
 
 Colophon (L8 r ): Les presentes heures a l'usaige de Romme ont este 
 imprimees a Paris par Gillet Hardouyn demourant au bout du Pont 
 nostre dame devant sainct Denis de la Chartre, a l'enseigne de la Rose 
 d'or. Et on les vent au dit lieu. 
 
 ASSOCIATION COPIES 
 Washington's Present to Mrs. Clymer 
 JOEL BARLOW 
 
 The Vision of Columbus; a Poem in nine Books. . . . 
 Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, for the 
 Author. M.DCC.LXXXVII. 
 
 4to; in contemporary calf, with list of subscribers. 
 First edition. 
 
 The presentation inscription to Mrs. Clymer from George Washington 
 reads as follows: "Genl Washington offers compliments and best 
 wishes to Mrs. Clymer, and begs her acceptance of Barlows Vision of 
 Columbus — It is one of several copies for which he subscribed some 
 years since and received in this City. Tuesday 18th Sept. 1787." Mrs. 
 Clymer, nee Elizabeth Meredith, was the daughter of Reese Meredith, 
 one of the principal merchants of Philadelphia and an early friend of 
 Washington. George Clymer was one of the signers of the Declaration 
 of Independence from Pennsylvania and a delegate from that state to 
 the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. 
 The intimacy of General Washington with the family of Clymer is 
 shown by several entries in his own diary kept during the days of the 
 Constitutional Convention. Entries for June 3, 13, and 20 show that 
 on those days Washington "Dined at Mr. Clymer's and drank tea there 
 also." 
 
 Washington's Presentation to Mrs. Clymer 
 
Joel Barlow, one of the "Connecticut wits," is known not only for this 
 patriotic poem which went through many editions, but also for The 
 Hasty Pudding (1796), a mock epic celebrating the American dish, 
 cornmeal mush. George Washington subscribed to 20 copies of The 
 
 Vision of Columbus. 
 
 Robert Burns's Book 
 
 JOHN BRUCE 
 
 First Principles of Philosophy. For the Use of Stu- 
 dents . . . 
 
 Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech, 1781. 
 
 12mo; in contemporary calf, title-page wanting. 
 Second edition. 
 
 The poet Robert Burns inscribed his name in this book while he was 
 living at Mossgiel from 1784-1788 when he was farming in partner- 
 ship with his brother Gilbert. During that time he wrote some of his 
 best poems: "Cottar's Saturday Night," "The Twa Dogs," "The Jolly 
 Beggars," "To a Mouse," and "To a Mountain Daisy," to name just a 
 few. It was in 1786 that he, having obtained the post of overseer on a 
 Jamaica plantation, arranged with John Wilson, a printer in Kilmar- 
 nock, to issue a volume of his poems. He undertook this arrangement 
 in order to get money for his passage. 
 
 John Bruce (1745-1826) was educated at Edinburgh where he was 
 professor of logic. In addition to publishing philosophical works, he 
 was historiographer to the East India Company and joint king's 
 printer for Scodand. His First Principles went through at least three 
 editions before 1785. 
 
 From Jefferson's Library 
 
 LAURENT PIERRE DE JUSSIEU 
 Simon de Nantua; ou, Le Marchand Forain, Ouvrage 
 qui a obtenu le prix fonde par un Anonyme, et propose 
 par la Societe pour l'lnstruction elementaire; en faveur 
 du meilleur livre destine a servir de lecture au peuple 
 des villes et des compagnes . . . (La Societe a ajoute une 
 Medaille d'Or au Prix qu'elle decernat a cet Ouvrage.) 
 A Paris: Chez L. Colas, imprimeur-libraire de la 
 Societe pour l'Instruction elementaire, 1818. 
 
 l2mo., with engraved plate, half-bound in tan calf. 
 
 From the library of Thomas Jefferson with his distinctive mark on 
 p. 17: the letter "T" written by Jefferson before the printed signature 
 "I." When Jefferson bought the book in September 1819 from De 
 Bute, it was half-bound, as it is today. According to an inscription on 
 the half-title, Alexander Ladell purchased this book "at the sale of 
 Jefferson's library at Washington 3. March 1829, and presented [it] to 
 Miss Julia Ladell." The book later found its way into the Taft library. 
 A note on the back endsheet reads: "This was purchased by me from 
 Mrs. Wm. H. Taft when I purchased the part of his library which she 
 sold to W. H. Lowdermilk & Co. [signed] Parke P. Jones." 
 Que'rard IV, 276 
 
 Presentation from Pope to Atterbury 
 
 HOMER 
 
 Iliad. Homeri Ilias, id est, de Rebus ad Troiam gestis. 
 Parisiis, M.D.L. IIII. Apud Adr. Turnebum typo- 
 graphic Regius. 
 
 small 8vo; bound in red gold tooled morocco in England about 1710. 
 Presentation copy from Alexander Pope to Frances Atterbury 
 (1662-1732), Bishop of Rochester, with a long Latin inscription signed 
 by Atterbury. The Bishop was far more intimate with the great men of 
 letters during the reign of Queen Anne than most of the clergy of his 
 day. His association with Pope was closer than with Swift, Sir Isaac 
 Newton, Arbuthnot, or Bolingbroke. When Atterbury became Bishop 
 of Rochester in 1713, Pope was a frequent guest at Bromley. The Latin 
 
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 inscription reads: Homeri Iliadem/ Typis hiis nitidissimis Graece 
 editam/ Dono mihi dedit/ Qui tandem Carmine Angelicano,/ Musis 
 Gratiisque faventibus, expressam/ Genti nostrae prius donaverat/ 
 Alexander Pope. (Homer's Iliad, published in Greek in this elegant 
 type, given to me as a gift by him who, with the favor of the Muses and 
 Graces, had earlier given it to our nation, printed at long last in En- 
 glish verse, Alexander Pope.) Pope's translation of Homer appeared 
 between 1715 and 1720. Bishop Atterbury's signature also appears: 
 "F. Roff'n." 
 
 Ex libris: William S. Stone 
 Ownership: "J. Mitford, 1851" 
 
 Adrian Turnebus (1512-1565), one of the profoundest scholars and 
 critics of the sixteenth century, published only one volume of Homer 
 at his press in Paris. This volume, along with that of Estienne's edition, 
 formed the basis of the text of the Iliad up to the time of Barnes and 
 Clarke. 
 
Boswell's Copy 
 
 Charles Thomson's Milton 
 
 SAMUEL JOHNSON 
 
 An Account of the Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of 
 the Earl Rivers. 
 
 London: Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane. 
 M.DCC.XLIV. 
 
 4to; bound by Zahensdorf in reddish-tan polished calf. 
 First edition. 
 
 Ownership: James Boswell, biographer of Johnson, has signed his 
 name on the title page of this book. Boswell had supreme gifts as a 
 biographer: persistence, fidelity, objectivity in observation and sym- 
 pathy in portrayal, thoroughness, a finely calculated prose style and a 
 vivid sense of the dramatic. His biography remains the finest and 
 best-loved English biography because of his faithful representation 
 and artistic re-creation. 
 
 Thomas Gray's Copy 
 
 LEICESTER'S COMMONWEALTH 
 Leycesters Common-wealth: Conceived, Spoken and 
 Published with most earnest Protestation of all Dutifull 
 Good Will and Affection towards this Realm, for whose 
 good onely, it is made common to many. . . . 
 Printed 1641 
 
 Bound with: 
 
 Leycesters Ghost. Printed in the years, 1641. 
 
 4to; wanting the portrait, bound by Riviere & Son. 
 Ex libris: John Gribbel, St. Austell Hall; George Soaper. 
 Ownership: Thomas Gray, the poet, has signed his name of the tide- 
 page and added marginalia on most pages up through p. 53. Gray 
 went to Eton with Horace Walpole and later to Peterhouse, Cambridge 
 (1734-38). Because of a practical joke he moved from Peterhouse 
 across the street to Pembroke College (1756). In addition to writing 
 poetry in Latin, he was learned in many other subjects, and in 1768, 
 through the influence of Richard Stonehewer, he was appointed pro- 
 fessor of history and modern languages at Cambridge. 
 Leycesters Commonwealth, originally published in 1584, was known as 
 "Father Parson's green coat." Modern authorities agree that Robert 
 Parsons did not write this celebrated libel "from hints furnished by 
 Lord Treasurer Burleigh." Its authorship remains anonymous. 
 Grolier II 135; Graesse IV, 153. 
 
 JOHN MILTON 
 
 Paradise Regain'd. A Poem in Four Books. To which is 
 added Samson Agonistes; and Poems upon several Oc- 
 casions, with a Tractate of Education . . . 
 Glasgow, Printed and sold by Robert and Andrew 
 Foulis MDCC LI I. 
 
 12mo; in contemporary binding. 
 
 Ownership: "Charles Thomson 1755" (signed on the title-page) 
 In 1750, through the efforts of Benjamin Franklin, Thomson was 
 appointed tutor at the Philadelphia Academy; and in 1755 he was 
 made master of the Latin School which later became the William Penn 
 Charter School. This little volume was acquired during his school- 
 teaching years. During the period 1774-1789 he served as Secretary of 
 the Continental Congress; his careful recordkeeping established the 
 basis of the federal government's archives. 
 Gaskell 235. 
 
 Mary Ball's Book 
 
 JOHN SCOTT 
 
 The Christian Life, wheren [sic] is shew'd, I. The Worth 
 and Excellency of the Soul. II. The Divinity and Incar- 
 nation of our Saviour. III. The Authority of the Holy 
 Scripture. IV. A Dissuasive from Apostacy . . . The Sec- 
 ond Edition. 
 
 London: Printed for S. Manship and R. Wilkin, and 
 are to be Sold by W. Davis at the Black Bull in 
 
 CORNHILL, AND J. BONWICK AT THE HAT AND STAR IN St. 
 
 Paul's Church-yard. 1700. 
 
 Vol. 5 only; 8vo, in contemporary mottled calf. 
 
 Ownership: signed on the front endsheet "Mary Ball 1728" and on the 
 verso of the last fly leaf "Mary Ball's book." The owner was the mother 
 of the first President of the United States, George Washington. Below 
 her signature on the inside front cover is a card which has been pasted 
 there by the former owner S. Weir Mitchell, the Philadelphia author 
 and physician. 
 
 This book was exhibited at the Washington Bicentennial, Corcoran 
 Gallery, Washington, 1932. 
 
FIRSTS AND EARLY ENGLISH IMPRINTS 
 RICHARD ALLESTREE 
 
 The Art of Contentment . . . the second Impression . . . 
 At the Theater in Oxford. M. DC. LXXV. 
 
 small 4to; in contemporary calf. 
 
 Allestree (1619-1681), a royalist divine, was author of a number of 
 tracts and sermons in addition to The Whole Duty of Man and The Art of 
 Contentment. 
 Wing A- 1086 
 
 ROBERT CLAVELL 
 
 His Majesties Propriety, and Dominion on the Brittish 
 Seas asserted: Together with a true Account of the 
 Neatherlanders insupportable Insolencies, and Injuries, 
 they have committed; and the inestimable Benefits they 
 have gained in their Fishing on the English Seas: As also 
 their prodigious and horrid Cruelties in the East and 
 West-Indies, and other Places. To which is added, an 
 exact Mapp, containing the Isles of Great Brittain, and 
 Ireland, with the several Coastings, and the Adjacent 
 Parts of our Neighbours: By an experienced Hand. 
 London, Printed by T. Mabb, for Andrew Kembe, 
 near St. Margarets-Hill in Southwark, and Edward 
 Thomas, at the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain; 
 and Robert Clavel, at the Staggs-Head in Ivy-Lane, 
 1665. 
 
 small 8vo; with the map. 
 
 Robert Clavell (d. 1711) was a London bookseller who published this 
 pamphlet against the Dutch in 1665. In addition he published a 
 catalogues of current literature, 1668-1700. His work is cited in the 
 White Kennett Bibiothecae Americanae Pnmordia (London, 1713), 
 p. 248. 
 Sabin 13514 
 
 Ex libris: crest (stag and coronet) and the initials "R.B.S." 
 
 DANIEL DEFOE 
 
 The Life and strange surprising Adventures of Robin- 
 son Crusoe, of York, Mariner . . . Written by Himself. 
 The Second Edition. 
 
 London: Printed for W. Taylor at the Ship in 
 Pater-Noster-Row. MDCCXIX. 
 
 8vo; with frontispiece by Clarke and Pine, in contemporary calf. 
 Second edition of the first part. 
 
 The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; being the 
 
 Second and Last Part of his Life . . . Written by Him- 
 self . . . 
 
 London: Printed for W. Taylor at the Ship in 
 Pater-Noster-Row. MDCCXIX. 
 
 8vo; with the map of the world, in contemporary calf. 
 
 First edition, second issue (with A4 verso blank, "FARTHER" on Bl 
 recto, the text showing uniform printing, but p. 295 correcdy num- 
 bered). 
 
 Serious Reflections during the Life and surprising Ad- 
 ventures of Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the 
 Angelick World. Written by Himself. 
 London: Printed for W. Taylor, at the Ship and 
 Black-Swan in Pater-Noster-Row. 1720. 
 
 8vo; with folding plate by Clarke and Pine, bound by J. Clarke. 
 First edition. 
 
 The evidence for the popularity of this story by Defoe is not only the 
 number of editions and translations of the work but also the number 
 of piracies, imitations, and abridgments which appeared soon after its 
 publication. 
 
 Ex libris: Robert R. Dearden 
 
 H. C. Hutchins, "Robinson Crusoe" and its Printing 1719-1731. (New 
 York: Columbia University Press, 1925). Grolier 41. 
 
 HENRY FIELDING 
 
 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In six Vol- 
 umes . . . 
 
 London: Printed for A. Millar, over-against Cath- 
 arine-street in the Strand. MDCCXLIX. 
 
 6 vols.; 12mo, in contemporary calf. 
 
 First edition, first issue, with the errata leaf preceding the first page of 
 text in Vol. I; with the final blanks in Vols. I and III 
 Ownership: "S. M. Bowen" (an eighteenth-century signature) 
 Fielding's novel was so successful that it was impossible to get the sets 
 bound fast enough to satisfy the demand for copies. Its popularity is 
 attested by the translations into French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Rus- 
 sian, and Swedish and the easy availability of modern printings. 
 Grolier 48; Rothschild 850. 
 
 HENRY VIII 
 
 A Necessary Doctrine and Erudition for any Christen 
 Man, set furthe by the Kynges maiestie of Englande 
 &c. . . . 
 
 Colophon: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete by 
 Thomas Barthelet printer to the kynges hyghnes, 
 the. XXIX. day of May, the yere of our Lorde. 
 M.D.XLIII. 
 
small 4to; in contemporary bindtng of brown calf. 
 Third edition. 
 
 In 1537 The Institution of a Christen Man appeared; it was an exposition 
 of the Creed, the Seven Sacraments, the Decalogue, the Lord's Prayer, 
 and the Ave Maria, compiled by a committee of bishops and divines. It 
 also dealt with other vexed questions: purgatory, justification, and the 
 relationship of the Church of England to the Roman see. "The 
 Bishop's Book" — as it was known — was never granted the king's sanc- 
 tion, but rather he used it to test the temper of the people. The third 
 edition, under a new tide — A Necessary Doctrine — was put forth by 
 Henry VIII in the summer of 1543 after it had been presented to 
 Convocation earlier in the year. Based on the "Bishop's Book," it as- 
 serted more strongly, however, the King's supremacy. It was provided 
 with a preface, apparendy written by Henry himself, and a prelimi- 
 nary article on faith, probably the work of Thomas Cranmer. The 
 separation from Rome was underway, for in the next year 1544, the 
 Litany was issued in English and in 1545 an Act passed suppressing 
 chantries and other similar foundations. It was not until after Henry's 
 death in 1547 that Protestantism became the official ecclesiastical pol- 
 icy. 
 
 STC 5170 (Dalton copy has the following on e6 verso: "This boke 
 bounde in paper boordes or claspes, not to be solde above .xvi.d.") 
 
 MARTIN LUTHER 
 
 A Treatise, touching the Libertie of a Christian. Written 
 in Latin by Doctor Martine Luther, and translated into 
 English by James Bell. 
 
 At London, Imprinted by Ralph Newbery and H. 
 Bynneman. Anno. 1579. 
 
 small 8vo; bound in tan calf by f. Larkins. 
 Ex libris: Jacobi P. R. Lyell 
 
 The translator James Bell (fl. 1551-1596), fellow of Trinity College, 
 Oxford, and publisher of religious works, dedicated his work "To the 
 righte Honorable and moste vertuous Lady, Anne, Countesse of War- 
 wicke." The original edition of Luther's treatise appeared in 1520 
 when he had just been condemned at Rome, although the fact had not 
 come to him yet. Ralph Newbery published Hakluyt's Voyages and 
 Holinshed's Chronicles in 1574, Barnabe Googe's "Ecloges," in 1563, 
 among others. 
 STC 16995 
 
 JOHN MILTON 
 
 Paradise Lost. A Poem in ten Books . . . 
 
 London, Printed by S. Simmons, and are to be sold by 
 
 T. Helder, at the Angel in Little Brittain, 1669. 
 
 4 to; bound in modern mottled calf, gilt. 
 First edition (eighth title-page). 
 
 Bibliographers have recognized eight distinct issues of the first edition 
 of Paradise Lost with the most notable differences being the variations 
 in the tide-pages. The text of the poem is identical in all cases, with the 
 
 exception of a few typographical errors that were corrected as the 
 
 book passed through the press. The number of different tide-pages 
 
 added to the same text may be the result of printing the whole edition 
 
 at one time but without title-page, which was set up and printed only as 
 
 purchasers were found for a portion of the edition. The imprint was 
 
 changed to agree with the names of the purchasers. 
 
 The Dalton copy conforms to the collation of Grolier II, 604, but 
 
 wanting blank Al. 
 
 Ex libris: Robert R. Dearden 
 
 Grolier 33; Grolier II, 604. 
 
 Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books . . . The Third 
 Edition. Revised and Augmented by the same Author. 
 London, Printed by S. Simmons next door to the 
 Golden Lion in Aldersgate-street, 1678. 
 
 8vo; in contemporary binding of brown calf. 
 Third edition. 
 
 Ex libris: Robert R. Dearden 
 Grolier II, 606. 
 
 JONATHAN SWIFT 
 
 Travels into several remote Nations of the World. In 
 Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and 
 then a Captain of several Ships . . . 
 London: Printed for Benj. Motte, at the Middle 
 Temple-Gate in Fleet-street. M, DCC, XXVI. 
 
 2 vols.; 8vo; with portrait and plates, with continuous pagination; in contem- 
 porary calf. 
 
 Vol. I. Second edition; Vol. II. First edition. 
 
 The Irish novelist, satirist, poet, and pamphleteer Jonathan Swift 
 shared with Pope and Gay the secret of "what you (Swift) call your 
 cousin's wonderful book" (Gulliver), and of its mysterious discovery as 
 of a baby under a gooseberry bush (16th November 1726). Swift was 
 staying with Pope when the manuscript was mysteriously left at Motte's 
 door — dropped in the dark from a hackney coach. Charles Ford acted 
 as Swift's literary intermediary for he feared that he had created a 
 political affront in the writing of Gulliver. The book was an immediate 
 success — the whole of the first issue was exhausted within the first 
 week. Of it Lady Mary Wordey Montague commented: "Here is a 
 book come out that all our people of taste run mad about. . . ." 
 Dryden's cousin, Swift was the master prose-satirist of his time; 
 Gulliver, his satire on mankind, and all his work is characterized by 
 originality, clarity, and incisive force. 
 Grolier 42. 
 
 ALFRED TENNYSON 
 Enoch Arden, etc. 
 
 London: Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street. 1864. 
 
 small 8vo; bound in dark red crushed morocco by Hayday & Co. 
 First edidon. 
 
RibHftied aroordn^toAot onhrt Mm «,t.Sqxly^3byArch' t Bcfl, 
 BooUafcrN?8nearlhcSarw*n«lfcadAfc%Me. Z - - 
 
 Portrait of Phil lis Wheatley 
 Ex libris: Arthur Richard Mead 
 
 The Holy Grail and other Poems . . . 
 
 [London:] Strahan and Co., Publishers 56 Ludgate 
 
 Hill, London 1870. 
 
 First edition, with 13 pages of manuscripts and 8 leaves of corrected proofs 
 bound in by Riviere and Son. The corrections are in the hand of the author. 
 Also laid in are: (1) 2 leaves (pp. v-viii) of corrected proof of the 
 "Dedication" for "Idylls of the King"; (2) 1 leaf (pp. 391-392) of cor- 
 rected proof of "The Passing of Arthur"; and (3) 6 leaves (pp. 147-160 
 from signature L) of corrected proof of "Merlin and Vivien." 
 Ownership — presentation copy with inscription: "Early copy — 
 Miss Smedley, with much respect, A Strahan." 
 
 Other poems included in this edition are "The Coming of Arthur," 
 Pelleas and Ettarre," "The Passing of Arthur," "Northern Farmer. 
 New Style," "The Golden Supper," "The Victim," "Wages," "The 
 Higher Pantheism," " 'Flower in the Crannied Wall,' " and "Lu- 
 cretius." 
 
 PHILLIS WHEATLEY 
 
 Poems on various Subjects, religious and Moral . . . 
 London: Printed for A. Bell, Bookseller, Aldgate; 
 
 AND SOLD BY MESSRS. COX AND BERRY, KlNG-STREET, 
 
 Boston. M DCC LXXIII. 
 
 small 4to; bound in dark red gilt crushed morocco. 
 
 Entered at Statimer's Hall. 
 
 Her autograph 
 
 First edition, with the portrait, and signed by the author on the verso 
 of the title-page. 
 
 Ownership: signed on the fly leaf: "Betsy Greenleaf " and on the tide- 
 page: "Betsy Creenleaf her book." 
 
 The following is an excerpt from a letter written by John Wheatley, 
 Phillis's master, to the publisher: "Phillis was brought from Africa to 
 America, in the year 1761, between seven and eight years of age. 
 Without any assistance from School education, and by only what she 
 was taught in the family, she, in sixteen months time from her arrival, 
 attained the English language, to which she was an utter stranger 
 before, to such a degree, as to read any, the most difficult parts of the 
 Sacred Writings. . . . 
 
 "As to her writing, her own curiosity led her to it; and this she learnt 
 in so short a time, that in the year 1765, she wrote a letter to the Rev. 
 Mr. Occom, the Indian minister, while in England." 
 
 OSCAR WILDE 
 
 Salome: a Tragedy in one Act: translated from the 
 French of Oscar Wilde: Pictured by Aubrey Beardsley. 
 
 London: Elkin Matthews & John Lane . . . 1894. 
 
 First edition in light blue cloth, stamped in gold. 
 Ex libris: Francis L. Randolph 
 
AMERICAN FIRST EDITIONS 
 
 2 vols.; in purple muslin binding with printed paper labels on the spines. 
 
 JOHN BUNYON 
 
 The Jerusalem-Sinner Saved: or, Good News for the 
 vilest of Men, being a Help for despairing Souls: shew- 
 ing that Jesus Christ would have Mercy in the first Place 
 offered to the biggest Sinners. The eleventh Edition. . . . 
 Boston: Printed for J. Edwards and H. Foster in 
 Cornhill 1735. 
 
 12mo; in contemporary calf over thin wooden boards. 
 
 The eleventh edition of Bunyon's Good News is the first American 
 edition. 
 
 Ex libris: Robert R. Dearden 
 Ownership: "George Ash, His Book" 
 Evans 3637 
 
 SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS 
 
 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 
 
 London: Chatto and Windus, Picadilly, 1876. 
 
 This, the rare English edition, is the first, preceding the first Ameri- 
 can, printed in Hartford, by six months. 
 BAL 3367 
 
 Life on the Mississippi . . . with more than 300 Illustra- 
 tions 
 
 Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. 
 
 First edition, second state (without the woodcut of "Mark Twain in 
 
 flames"). 
 
 BAL 3411 
 
 The Prince and the Pauper: a Tale for young People of 
 all Ages . . . 
 
 Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882. 
 
 First American edition with the binding in state B. BAL 3402 
 
 JAMES FENIMORE COOPER 
 
 The Deerslayer: or, the First War-Path. A Tale. . . . 
 Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard. 1841. 
 
 2 vols.; bound in purple muslin, with printed paper labels on the spines. 
 First edition. 
 BAL 3895 
 
 Gleanings in Europe. England: by an American. 
 Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard. 1837. 
 
 First edition. 
 BAL 3837 
 
 The Last of the Mohicans: a Narrative of 1757 . . . 
 Philadelphia: H. C. Carey & I. Lea — Chesnut- 
 Street. 1826. 
 
 2 vols.; uncut in tan paper boards, with paper title labels on the spines. 
 Ownership: "Jacob Parry, Hatborough" (nineteenth century signa- 
 ture). 
 
 This, the second and most famous of the Leatherstocking Tales, is the 
 first in which the scout Natty Bumppo was made the symbol of all that 
 was wise, heroic, and romantic in the lives of those who made the 
 American wilderness their home. Although Cooper's Indians are 
 noble savages too far removed from reality to be believable today, 
 Mohicans glorified in Europe some aspects of American life that were 
 unique to our cultural history. 
 BAL 3833 
 
 WILLIAM ELLIOTT 
 
 Carolina Sports, by Land and Water; including Inci- 
 dents of Devil-Fishing, &c. . . . 
 
 Charleston: Burges and James, Publishers. 1846. 
 
 First edition in red cloth. 
 Ex libris: John Stuart Groves 
 
 Ownership: "Henry Armstrong, from his friend, T. Pinckney." 
 Elliott, elected to the S. C. legislature from Beaufort, served in both 
 houses. In a disagreement with his constituency who favored nullifica- 
 tion of the protective tarif as a proper remedy for a grievance, Elliot 
 resigned as Senator in 1832. From that time on he devoted himself to 
 agricultural pursuits, to rural sports, and to writing essays on agricul- 
 ture and papers — sometimes controversial — on political economy. The 
 essays published under the signature of "Piscator" and "Venator" were 
 enlarged and issued in Carolina Sports. 
 
 FRANCIS BRET HARTE 
 
 The Luck of Roaring Camp, and other Sketches. 
 Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co. 1870. 
 
 First edition, before the addition of the story "Brown of Calaveras." 
 "The Luck of Roaring Camp" first appeared in the Overland Monthly, 
 San Francisco, August 1868. 
 
 Harte, a boyhood admirer of Dickens, applied the Dickens's 
 method — a mingling of humor, sentiment, pathos and whimsical 
 character — to new material and founded the local-color school in 
 America. 
 
 BAL 7246; Grolier, pp. 107-108. 
 
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 
 
 The Scarlet Letter, a Romance . . . 
 
 Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, M.DCCC.L. 
 
 First edition; with a consular document, signed by Hawthorne, laid in. 
 Ex libris: Robert R. Dearden 
 
 Hawthorne became Consul of the United States for Liverpool, an 
 appointment made by Franklin Pierce, his old friend and college com- 
 panion. When Pierce was nominated for president in 1852, Haw- 
 thorne was his biographer. After Pierce was inaugurated the following 
 year, Hawthorne was not forgotten; he was appointed consul. The 
 document, of blue paper with the seal of the consulate of the United 
 States-Liverpool, is a declaration of the names of the officers and men 
 of the crew of the ship "Pelican State" which sailed in from the United 
 States. The document is dated May 9, 1856, and signed by Hawthorne. 
 BAL 7600; Grolier 59. 
 
 WASHINGTON IRVING, WILLIAM IRVING, and 
 JAMES KIRKE PAULDING 
 
 Salmagundi; or, the Whim-Whams and Opinions of 
 Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. and Others. 
 New York: Printed and published by D. Longworth, 
 At the Shakespeare-Gallery, 1807-1808. 
 
 2 vols (in 20 parts), bound in one; 16mo., with portrait, title-page for each 
 volume, and table of contents bound in at the beginning of each volume. 
 Wanting wrappers. The bibliographical particulars of the Dalton copy are as 
 follows: (1) copy right notice on verso of the title-page is Second state; (2) No. 1 
 has the notice "(third edition)" with second state of the text; (3) No. 2 has the 
 notice "(second edition)" with no issue points; (4) No. 3 has the notice "(second 
 edition)" but wanting the imprint at the end of the text: "The second edi- 
 tion . . .;"(5) Nos. 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, and 19 have no issue points; (6) Nos. 6, 8, 
 11, 14, 15, 16, and 18 are first issues; (7) Nos. 4, 17, and 20 have points of 
 second issue; and ( 8) the portrait of "Launcelot Langstaff, esq. " is second state 
 (Langfeld 5) bound in place before No. 8 which has a first issue text. 
 Ex libris: Robert R. Dearden 
 
 Ownership: "Rapell Sturgis" (signed on first flyleaf)- 
 In 1807, the year that Robert Fulton perfected the steam engine, 
 Salmagundi marked the beginning of a simpler fashion in American 
 prose. In England, John Lambert characterized it as "a dish of real 
 American cookery . . . their chief aim is to raise a laugh at the expense 
 of folly and absurdity." This yellow-backed, thirty-page pamphlet pub- 
 lished by David Longworth was the spontaneous creation of three 
 youthful writers whose strength lay, not in deep, rich thought, nor in a 
 finished style, but in their vivacity, good humour, originality, and wish 
 to entertain. 
 
 An apologetic Irving wrote to Brevoort in 1819: "The work was par- 
 donable as a juvenile production, but it is full of errors, puerilities, and 
 imperfections. I was in hopes it would gradually have gone down into 
 oblivion." 
 
 Jacob Blanck, "Salmagundi and Its Publisher," Papers of the Bibliographi- 
 cal Society of America, 41 (1947), pp. 1-32; Washington Irving: a Bibliog- 
 raphy Compiled by William R. Langfeld with the bibliographic Assistance of 
 Philip C. Blackburn. New York: The New York Public Library, 1933. 
 
 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 
 Kavanagh, a Tale . . . 
 
 Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. M DCCC XLIX. 
 
 First edition, first printing (altered state). 
 BAL 12096 
 
 HERMAN MELVILLE 
 Moby-Dick; or, the Whale . . . 
 
 New York: Harber 8c Bros. London: Richard Bent- 
 ley, 1851. 
 
 First edition in the original red cloth with all the points. 
 
 "The great connundrum-book" is a profound allegory, containing the 
 
 sounds and scents, the very flavor of the maritime life of our sailing 
 
 ancestors. Melville was litde read and little considered before about 
 
 1920. 
 
 Grolier 60. 
 
 JAMES KIRKE PAULDING 
 
 Letters from the South, written during an Excursion in 
 the Summer of 1816. By the author of John Bull and 
 Brother Jonathan, &c. &c. . . . 
 
 New York: Published by James Eastburn 8c Co. at 
 the Literary Rooms, Broadway, Corner of 
 Pine-street. Abraham Paul, printer. 1817. 
 
 2 vols.; 12mo., in contemporary calf. 
 First edition. 
 
 Paulding, a bachelor, made this tour in the summer of 1816 with a 
 bachelor companion, Oliver Noll, whose hobby was geology. The 
 journey through Virginia began from Norfolk about the middle of 
 July, then west through Richmond to the crest of the Alleghenies, 
 back into the Shenandoah Valley, and northward through the valley to 
 Harpers Ferry. The leisurely journey, undertaken for his health, 
 brought him to many of the Virginia springs before his return to 
 Washington late in the fall. 
 
 Observing the lack of interest in poetry and music, Paulding reasons 
 that hard work is the parent not only of "all the hardy virture" but of 
 "a sordid indifference to the finer impulses of the mind." That physi- 
 cal labor impedes mental growth would hardly be acceptable to such 
 philosophers as Carlyle, Thoreau, and Emerson. 
 
 According to Clark, Letters is a disappointing descriptive travel ac- 
 count, but as a patriotic, informed American's view of his country at 
 that moment it is an excellent commentary on the times. 
 Clark, II, no. 228. 
 
 FRANKLIN IMPRINTS AND ASSOCIATIONS 
 MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO 
 
 M. T. Cicero's Cato Major, of his Discourse of Old-Age: 
 with explanatory Notes. 
 
Philadelphia: Printed & sold by B. Franklin, 
 M DCC XLIV. 
 
 This, the first edition, is generally considered to be "The finest pro- 
 duction from Franklin's press and a really splendid specimen of the 
 art." The translator and annotator was Chief Justice James Logan. 
 Ownership: "Samuel Minshall" (eighteenth-century signature) 
 "Isaac Minshall" (eighteenth-century signature) 
 "William R. Dichorty" (eighteenth-century signature) 
 "J. K. Nichols, 1844" (signed) 
 The Dalton copy wants pp. iii-vi. 
 
 Church 949; Hildeburn 868; Evans 5361; Sabin 13040. 
 
 JACOB DUCHE 
 
 The Life and Death of the Righteous. A Sermon, 
 preached at Christ-Church, Philadelphia . . . 
 Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 
 M.DCC.LXIII. 
 
 small 4to; bound in full tan calf by H. Woods. 
 Curtis 680; Hildeburn 1888 
 
 LEWIS EVANS 
 
 Geographical, historical, political, philosophical and 
 mechanical Essays. The First, containing an Analysis of 
 a general Map of the Middle British Colonies in 
 America; and of the Country of the Confederate In- 
 dians: A Description of the Face of the Country; the 
 Boundaries of the Confederates; and the Maritime and 
 inland Navigations of the several Rivers and Lakes con- 
 tained therein . . . 
 
 Philadelphia: 
 MDCCLV. 
 
 Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall. 
 
 4to, with map; uncut copy bound in half, reddish-brown morocco by Bradstreet. 
 First edition, first issue. The map of 1755, engraved by James Turner 
 of Philadelphia and published by Evans, was used and copied many 
 
 Lewis Evans's Map 
 
times throughout the eighteenth century to settle boundary disputes. 
 Henry N. Stevens (Lewis Evans His Map of 1752) cites no less than 
 seventeen direct derivations issued before 1800. 
 Ex libris: Geo. Dawson Coleman 
 
 Streeter II, 819; Curtis, pp. 125 (text) and 127 (map); Hildeburn 
 1412; Evans 7413. 
 
 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 
 
 A True and impartial State of the Province of Pennsyl- 
 vania, containing an exact Account of the Nature of its 
 Government . . . 
 
 Philadelphia: Printed by W. Dunlap M. DCC.LIX. 
 
 Small 8vo; with the appendix and the leaf of advertisements; half-bound in 
 calf. 
 
 Ex libris: Geo. Dawson Coleman 
 Evans 8349; Hildeburn 1649. 
 
 THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE 
 
 January 3, 1739,40 (no. 577)-December 25, 1740 (no. 
 
 628) 
 
 Bound in dark brown morocco, this volume of the Gazette is lacking only the 
 Postscript for July 3 (no. 603). 
 
 The Pennsylvania Gazette was started by Samuel Keimer, December 24, 
 1728, as "The Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences: And Penn- 
 sylvania Gazette." He published nos. 1-39 when it was taken over by 
 Benjamin Franklin who changed the title to "The Pennsylvania 
 Gazette." 
 
 Curtis 759; Hildeburn 648. 
 
 SAMUEL HOPKINS 
 
 An Abridgment of Mr. Hopkins' historical Memoirs, re- 
 lating to the Housatunnuk, or Stockbridge Indians . . . 
 Philadelphia: Printed and sold by B. Franklin and 
 D. Hall, M.DCC.LVII. 
 
 small 8vo; bound in full red morocco by Bradstreet. 
 Bound with: 
 
 Translation of a German Letter wrote by Conrad 
 Weiser, Esq. 
 
 Ex libris: Geo. Dawson Coleman 
 
 Curtis 593: Hildeburn 1531; Sabin 32947 
 
 BENJAMIN LAY 
 
 All Slave-keepers that keep the Innocent in Bondage, 
 Apostates pretending to lay Claim to the pure and holy 
 Christian Religion; of what Congregation so ever; but 
 
 especially in their Ministers, by whose example the filthy 
 Leprosy and Apostacy is spread far and near; it is a 
 notorious Sin, which many of the true Friends of Christ, 
 and his pure Truth, called Quakers, has been for many 
 Years, and still are concern'd to write and bear Tes- 
 timony against; as a Practice so gross & hurtful to Re- 
 ligion, and destructive to Government, beyond what 
 Words can set forth, or can be declared of by Men or 
 Angels, and yet lived in my Ministers and Magistrates in 
 America. The Leaders of the People cause them to err. 
 Written for a General Service, by him that truly and 
 sincerely desires the present and eternal Welfare and 
 Happiness of all Mankind, all the World over, of all 
 Colours, and Nations, as his own Soul, Benjamin Lay. 
 Philadelphia: Printed [by Benjamin Franklin] for 
 the Author. 1737. 
 
 small 8vo; full-bound in green gilt crushed morocco. 
 
 Benjamin Lay (1677-1760), a Quaker, was an early opponent of slav- 
 ery in America and fiercely denounced it; in turn, his work was de- 
 nounced by the Society of Friends. Although poor and illiterate — Lay 
 describes himself as "a poor common sailor, and an illiterate man" — he 
 was on intimate terms with Benjamin Franklin, who edited the work 
 for him, Governor Penn, and other prominent characters of the time. 
 In his Autobiography Franklin admits to having printed this work, but 
 as the subject was an unpopular one, he withheld his name from the 
 title-page. 
 
 Ex libris: Samuel W. Pennypacker 
 Ownership: "Dan Smith" (signed) 
 
 Evans 4149; Curtis, p. 58; Hildeburn 556; Sabin 39465; Smith s 
 Friends' Books, II, p. 93. 
 
 NOAH WEBSTER, JR. 
 
 An Examination into the leading Principles of the Fed- 
 eral Constitution proposed by the late Convention . . . 
 by a Citizen of America. 
 
 Philadelphia: Printed & sold by Prichard & Hall 
 M.DCC.LXXXVII. 
 
 8vo, half-bound in red, straight-grain morocco by Blackwell. 
 
 This work, dedicated to Benjamin Franklin, is one of the important 
 
 statements urging adoption of the Constitution. A signed note in the 
 
 author's personal copy in the New York Public Library calls this "a 
 
 hasty production written at the request of Mr. Fitz-Simmons of 
 
 Philadelphia, a member of the Convention." 
 
 Evans 20865; Ford 130; Sabin 102352; Streeter II, 1047. 
 
 THE LANCASTER INDIAN MASSACRE 
 A Declaration and Remonstrance of the distressed and 
 
bleeding frontier Inhabitants of the Province of Penn- 
 sylvania, presented by them to the Honourable the Gov- 
 ernor and Assembly of the Province, shewing the Causes 
 of their late Discontent and Uneasiness and the Griev- 
 ances under which they have laboured, and which they 
 humbly pray to have redress'd. 
 
 [Philadelphia:] Printed [By William Bradford] in 
 the Year M,DCC,LXIV. 
 
 8vo; half-bound in tan calf. 
 
 First edition. Of the nearly thirty pamphlets generated by the Cones- 
 toga and Lancaster massacres, this is a defence of the Conestoga Mas- 
 sacre from the Scotch-Irish frontiersmen. Signed by Matthew Smith 
 and James Gibson, the Declaration bitterly attacks the pro-Indian pol- 
 icy of the Philadelphia government. 
 
 Streeter II, 967; Evans 9630; Sabin 19163; Dunbar, pp.99-1 10. 
 
 A Serious Address, to such of the Inhabitants of Penn- 
 sylvania, as have connived at, or do approve of, the late 
 Massacre of the Indians at Lancaster, or the Design of 
 killing those who are now in the Barracks at Philadel- 
 phia. Re-printed from the First Edition (printed by Mr. 
 Ambluster [sic]) and diligently compared and revised 
 with the same. 
 
 Philadelphia: Printed by Andrew Steuart, at the 
 Bible-in-Heart, in Second-street, 1764. 
 
 l6mo; half-bound in maroon calf. 
 
 Little more than a sermon interspersed with historical sketches of the 
 events surrounding the Lancaster massacre, this is the second edition. 
 Ex libris: Geo. Dawson Coleman 
 Evans 9836; Field 854; Hildeburn 2063. 
 
 THOMAS BARTON 
 
 The Conduct of the Paxton-Men, impartially rep- 
 resented: with some Remarks on the Narrative. 
 Philadelphia: Printed by Andrew Steuart. 
 MDCCLXIV. 
 
 8vo; uncut and half bound in dark blue straight- grain morocco. 
 Both tide-pages are present in the Dalton copy. 
 
 Writing in response to Benjamin Franklin's pamphlet Massacre of the 
 Indians at Lancaster (1764), Thomas Barton, rector of St. James 
 Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, attempted to justify the sanguinary 
 murderers of the Indians at Conestoga Manor on December 14, 1763, 
 and those in the protection of the work house in Lancaster on De- 
 cember 27, 1763. The massacres of the Christian, or Moravian, In- 
 dians, were undertaken out of revenge for the outrages committed by 
 the hostile Delawares and Shawnees who made life miserable and 
 dangerous for the settlers in the Paxton region. 
 Ex libris: Geo. Dawson Coleman 
 
 Evans 9594; Field 1187; Sabin 59268; John R. Dunbar, The Paxton 
 Papers (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1957), pp. 265ff. 
 
 PAPOONAHOAL 
 
 An Account of a Visit lately made to the People called 
 Quakers in Philadelphia, by Papoonahoal, an Indian 
 Chief, and several other Indians, chiefly of the Minisink 
 Tribe. With the Substance of their Conferences on that 
 Occasion. 
 
 London: Printed and Sold by S. Clark, in 
 Bread-street. MDCCLXI. 
 
 small 8vo; 21 p.; bound in gilt crushed red morocco by Bradstreet. 
 Papoonahoal, before communication with Christian advisers, con- 
 ceived the design of personal moral reform; and in response to an 
 invitation came to visit the Quakers. To show their good faith the 
 Indians led by their minister Papoohahoal, brought three prisoners, 
 redeemed from other Indians, and some horses and called upon the 
 Governor. He proposed to assist in the maintenance of peace among 
 the Quakers and Indians through the return of all the prisoners 
 "which are in the woods everywhere." The Governor offered them 
 gifts in return; but the Indian refused saying, "I did not come here to 
 do any public business with the government (but) on a religious ac- 
 count ... to turn people from war to peace." 
 Ex libris: Geo. Dawson Coleman 
 Ownership: "George Barritt, 1761" (signed) 
 Sabin 58493; Field 1167. 
 
 DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL 
 JOHN DRAYTON 
 
 A View of South-Carolina, as respects her Natural and 
 Civil Concerns . . . 
 
 Charleston: Printed by W. P. Young, No. 41, 
 Broad-street. 1802. 
 
 8vo; with the maps and plans, in original half-calf. 
 
 First edition with the author's presentation inscription on the page 
 following the title: "Respectfully presented to the Institution by the 
 Author. John Drayton." 
 Ex libris: Geo. Dawson Coleman 
 
 In 1798 at age 30, John Drayton was elected lieutenant-governor of 
 South Carolina, and two years later upon the death of Edward Rut- 
 ledge became governor. Known as a traveling governor, he was able to 
 produce this book not only from his own observations but also from 
 the written sources available to him. The original edition consisted of 
 only 500 copies. 
 Clark, Travels, II, 88. 
 
JONATHAN CARVER 
 
 Three Years Travels through the interior Parts of 
 North-America, for more than five thousand Miles . . . 
 with a Description of the Birds, Beasts, Reptiles, Insects, 
 and Fishes peculiar to the Country. Together with a 
 concise History of the Genius, Manners, and Custom of 
 the Indians . . . and an Appendix, describing the uncul- 
 tivated Parts of America that are the most proper for 
 forming Settlements. 
 
 Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Crukshank, in 
 Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets. 
 M DCC LXXXIX. 
 
 12mo; in a contemporary calf binding. 
 Ex libris: Geo. Dawson Coleman 
 
 An instant and wide-spread success when published in 1778, Carver's 
 Travels had been translated into German, French and Dutch and had 
 gone through at least twenty-three editions before 1796. Above the 
 general level of American writing in that period, the work of this 
 Connecticut shoemaker and soldier was the source for 
 Chateaubriand's descriptions of Indian customs in his Voyage en Ameri- 
 que. From Carver's Travels, Schiller derived the language and thought 
 for his "Nadowessiers Todtenlied." It is possible that in Carver's 
 Travels William Cullen Bryant first met with "Oregon" — the name of 
 the great river of the unexplored Pacific North-West in "Thanatopsis." 
 The name for the river was soon applied to the territory through 
 which it flowed. 
 
 Some have suggested that Carver did not put together the work in the 
 present form, but rather that it was the work of Dr. John Coakley 
 Lettsom, a voluminous and facile writer and friend of Carver. John 
 Nichols (Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century, II, 
 680), in his sketch of Lettsom, suggests that Lettsom edited and paid 
 for the work for the benefit of Carver's widow and fatherless off- 
 spring. 
 
 Cox II, 151-152; E. G. Bourne, "The Travels of Jonathan Carver," 
 American Historical Review, XI (January 1906), 287-302. 
 
 JOHN LAWSON 
 
 A new Voyage to Carolina; containing the exact De- 
 scription and natural History of that Country . . . and a 
 Journal of a thousand Miles, travel'd thro' several Na- 
 tions of Indians. Giving a particular Account of their 
 Customs, Manners, etc. . . . 
 London: Printed in the Year 1709. 
 
 small 4to, half-bound in brown calf with marbled paper sides. 
 Lawson's Voyage was issued in 1711 as part of Stevens's Collection of 
 Voyages. Lawson, a man of acute habits of observation regarding the 
 Indians of North Carolina, was a land surveyor in the employment of 
 the Government. The surveyor, as the precursor of the settler, was 
 always the special object of the Indians' detestation. Lawson suffered 
 under their revenge: accompanied by Baron Graffenried in Sep- 
 tember 1711, the surveyor-general was traveling up the Neuse River 
 
 when he was seized by the Indians a few miles from New Bern. After 
 several hours' counsel, the Indians decided to put him to death by 
 burning at the stake. "All the appalling tortues which savage ingenuity 
 could invent were exhausted on this unfortunate man, and the author 
 of the first history of the Carolinas, perished at the hands of the 
 savages, whose humanity he had in its pages so highly commended" 
 (Field, pp. 228-229). 
 Cox, II, 91; Field, 896. 
 
 GEORGE WASHINGTON 
 
 The Journal of Major George Washington, sent by the 
 Hon. Robert Dinwiddie, Esq; His Majesty's Lieu- 
 tenant-Governor, and Commander in Chief of Virginia, 
 to the Commandant of the French Forces on Ohio. To 
 which are added, the Governor's Letter: and a Trans- 
 lation of the French Officer's Answer. With a new Map 
 of the Country as far as the Mississippi. 
 Willi am sburgh Printed, London, Reprinted for T. 
 Jefferys, the Corner of St. Martin's Lane. 
 MDCCLIV. 
 
 small 4to; with folding map; full-bound in dark green crushed morocco by 
 F. Bedford. 
 
 Washington's Journal, the first book by the first President of the United 
 States, is for the period October 31, 1753 to January 16, 1754, the day 
 of his return to Williamsburg. At age 23 Washington was sent into 
 Ohio country for the purpose of protesting against the French en- 
 croachments into lands claimed by Britain. This protest and report are 
 an important part of the literature which led up to the French and 
 Indian War. 
 
 The Dalton copy of the map has the legend reading in part: "The 
 Shawanons are the same with ye Satanas." 
 Church 999; Sabin 101710; Streeter III, 1713. 
 
 FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS 
 A Double Fore-edge Painting 
 
 WILLIAM COWPER 
 
 Poems . . . with the Life of the Author, by the Rev. T. 
 Greatheed . . . 
 
 London: Printed by W. Wilson, 4, Greville-Street, 
 for J. Bumpus, Holborn Bars; Sharpe, King-Street, 
 Covent-Garden; Samms, Pall-Mall; Warren, New 
 Bond-Street; and Reilly, Lord-Street, Liverpool. 
 1821. 
 
 2 vols., 12mo; bound in purple, straight-grain gilt morocco, with double fore- 
 edge paintings on each volume. 
 
 The scenes on Vol. I are Cowes and St. Clare Castle (the seat of Lord 
 Vernon); those on Vol. II are Ryde and the Town Hall, Newport. 
 
Edwards of Halifax 
 
 SAMUEL IRELAND 
 
 Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth, from Pictures, Draw- 
 ings, and scarce Prints in the Possession of Samuel Ire- 
 land . . . 
 
 London: Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; 
 and J. Egerton, Whitehall. M DC XCIV. 
 
 4to; in Etruscan calf binding by Edwards of Halifax, with a fore-edge painting 
 of Putney Bridge. (Volume I only.) 
 Ex libris: G. W. Wentworth 
 
 Samuel Ireland is best known for his picturesque tours and his river 
 views; these he published from before 1790 until well into the 1800s. 
 
 MANUSCRIPT BOOKS 
 
 DANIEL CRONIN 
 
 Notes of my Brief and Rapid Tour up the Rhine and to 
 Baden-Baden in the Summer of 1850. 
 
 243 pp. written in a neat cursive hand, with city and river maps, original 
 illustrations, and etchings and engravings bound in; binding of dark green gilt 
 crushed morocco. 
 
 This manuscript is the personal record of Daniel Cronin and his com- 
 pany of three people on a summer excursion in 1850. Cronin pub- 
 lished several volumes of poems, all printed for private circulation, 
 between 1854 and 1880. 
 
 St. Clare Castle 
 
 KORAN 
 
 An eighteenth century manuscript in contemporary 
 binding, in Arabic. 
 
 141 leaves, on paper. 
 
 ALFRED TENNYSON 
 
 A Dream of Fair Women, [designed, written out, and 
 illuminated by Alberto Sangorski for Messrs. R. Riviere 
 & Sons. 1914]. 
 
 33 p., on vellum; title-page with a portrait of the author, two full-page illustra- 
 tions and two full-page ornamentations. The opening page of the text has an 
 ornamental initial in burnished gold and colors and a floral border of penwork. 
 
Town Hall, Newport 
 
 colon, and burnished gold. Each stanza has either an initial in blue, red, or 
 gold, or an ornamented initial in burnished gold and colors. The last page of 
 the text is treated in the same manner as the first page with an ornamental 
 initial and a full decorative border in addition to an oval picture of a sleeping 
 female figure as part of the border decoration. The first page of text and the last 
 page of the text are faced by full-page illustrations. 
 
 The binding by Rhnere and Sons is of dark green crushed levant morocco, the 
 sides decorated with broad borders of leaves and flowers inlaid in red, light 
 brown, blue, and white morocco, interspersed with gold tooling and pointille 
 work and an outer border of blue leaves on a trellis work of brown morocco. The 
 doublures are of light blue levant, the front cover having inlays of Egyptian 
 lotus-flowers in red and green moroccos on a gold background. The end sheets 
 are of blue watered silk. The Binding is pictured on the cover. 
 The illuminator and miniature painter, Alberto Sangorski 
 (1862-1932), formerly a jeweler and numismatic expert, was a teacher 
 at The Priory, Kippington, Sevenoaks. Sangorski designed and wrote 
 out other illuminated books; among them are "The Sermon on the 
 Mount" (1911), R. L. Stevenson's "Prayers written at Vailima" (1910), 
 and Tennyson's "Morte d' Arthur" (1912). 
 
 THE AUTOGRAPH FAN 
 
 The provenance of the autograph fan begins with the Iwakura Mission from Japan to the 
 United States. With the advent of the Imperial Restoration in 1868, the Japanese government 
 began a change in its "closed door" policy by appointing this Mission, which was a step toward the 
 modernization of the Japanese Empire. The leader of the Iwakura Mission was Iwakura To- 
 momi (1825-1883), who not only played a prominent role during the Imperial Restoration, but 
 also subsequently became Foreign Minister in 1868. The forty-eight-member Mission of 1871 to 
 1873 had as its purpose the studying of the organization of western nations so that Japan could 
 eventually become a major nation in its own right. 
 
 When the Mission arrived in Washington, D. C, on March 2, 1872, it was met by President 
 Ulysses S. Grant and Hamilton Fish, the Secretary of State. Fish pointed out that Iwakura did not 
 have full authorization to negotiate a revision of the Perry Treaty. Therefore two of the 
 Vice-Envoys journeyed back to Japan to secure the necessary documents. Evidently during this 
 interval the initial signatures on the fan were secured: Grant, Fish, Iwakura, and two 
 Vice-Envoys — Kido and Yamaguchi. Possibly given to Grant, the fan was apparently a souvenir 
 gift from the Iwakura Mission. To the Japanese, fans have symbolized a number of things such 
 as authority, the rising sun, and gratitude for hospitality, and the fan now in the Dalton Collec- 
 tion could have represented any of these symbols. 
 
 Additional signatures include those of many U. S. Presidents from Grant to Gerald R. Ford, 
 and of Fred M. Vinson and Earl Warren, two Chief Justices of the Supreme Court. There are 
 also autographs of various cabinet officers in the administrations of Presidents Grant, Hayes, 
 Garfield, and Arthur. 
 
The autograph fan, signed by various United States and Japanese dignitaries. 
 
NAPOLEON I. Autograph letter written for his 
 mother, signed for her "Veuve de Buonaparte," to the 
 Controller General of Finances, 1787-88. 
 
 3 pp., folio; bound in full red French levant, with Napoleonic arms, bees, 
 and crowned "N's" gilt tooled on both sides, borders of inlaid blue levant, gilt; 
 doublures of green levant, with wide laced gilt borders and the Napoleonic arms 
 repeated, with facsimiles of his autograph signatures impressed in gold; green 
 moire flyleaves, by Riviere. 
 
 This letter is a petition to the Controller General of 
 Finances, written by Napoleon for his mother when he 
 was not yet nineteen years of age. Written by the young 
 lieutenant of artillery, the letter is an eloquently worded 
 plea to the controller for relief in the form of an indem- 
 nity on account of the government's concellation of a 
 contract made with Charles Bonaparte in 1782 for a 
 mulberry tree plantation as part of the French plan for 
 introducing silk culture into the island of Corsica. 
 Charles had died in 1785 leaving his family penniless 
 and in debt. The annulment of the contract in May 
 1786, and the consequent withholding of the annual 
 state bounty for raising the trees, the sole source of the 
 income of Mme. Letizia Bonaparte, left the pecuniary 
 affairs of the family in a hopelessly entangled state. The 
 plantation had been made and some 3,000 livres had 
 been expended by the Bonapartes upon it, but unless 
 further capital was forthcoming the project was doomed 
 to failure. 
 
 Napoleon obtained leave from his regiment and re- 
 turned, after an absence of eight years, to Ajaccio and 
 found the family affairs in a desperate state. His mother 
 had four young children to support at home, and away 
 at school were Lucien at Aix and Joseph at the Univer- 
 sity of Pisa. Napoleon, immediately upon his arrival, as- 
 sumed charge of the situation and consecrated himself 
 to helping his mother. He made vigorous repre- 
 sentations to the provincial authorities, but the mulberry 
 money was not paid. He was convinced that his family 
 had been ill-treated and determined finally to go to 
 Paris and demand an indemnity. He applied for an ex- 
 tension of his leave, which was granted, and arrived in 
 Paris on October 1787 to press his mother's claim. He 
 went to Versailles and after the most persistent efforts 
 secured an interview with the prime minister, Brienne, 
 who gave him a letter of recommendation to the control- 
 ler general. He prepared a memoir and addressed it, in 
 his mother's behalf, to the intendant for Corsica resi- 
 dent at the capital, and knocked at every other possible 
 door in pursuit of the indemnity, but without success. 
 
 Napoleon returned once more to his home, reaching 
 Ajaccio on the first of January 1788. The head and 
 support of a large family, he was almost penniless, but 
 he regulated his mother's affairs as far as possible, 
 urged on the planting and grafting of the young mul- 
 berry trees, and managed to collect some of the money 
 due for trees which had been sold. 
 
 The letter in translation reads in part: 
 
 "Letizia Ramolino, widow of Carlo Buonaparte 
 of Ajaccio in Corsica, had the honor to humbly 
 entreat you to glance favorably upon her sad situa- 
 tion, caused by the cancellation of the contract 
 which her late husband had make with the king 
 and the nation for the establishment of a 
 mulberry-tree nursery. She ventures to hope, 
 Monseigneur, that by your sense of justice you will 
 extend the arm of assistance to a mother burdened 
 with eight children, and that a contract which she 
 had made with the king may not bring ruin upon 
 her. . . . 
 
 "The contract was passed and approved by the 
 king and the nation, requiring as a preliminary 
 that we engage to prepare the ground; accordingly 
 during the first five years the ground for the entire 
 plantation had been cleared, leveled, enclosed, and 
 irrigated. We labored arduously. . . . Of the five 
 preparatory years, the first four and a portion of 
 the fifth had already elapsed. My nursery con- 
 tained by that time some thirty thousand trees. 
 The ground for the remainder of the plantation 
 was cleared, enclosed, and leveled and on the point 
 of receiving new stock. She was, therefore, about to 
 reap the fruits of her labors when in May 1786, the 
 king cancelled the contract in view of the too great 
 abundance of nurseries. This fearful blow coupled 
 with the death of her husband has resulted in 
 completely upsetting her affairs. . . . 
 
 "The supplicant ventures today, Monseigneur, 
 to recall to your memory an undertaking upon 
 which hangs the fate of a family. It is a contract 
 where one of the covenanting parties breaks the 
 conditions of it to throw the entire burden on the 
 other party at the moment when things are turning 
 out badly. Ah! how could the sovereign wish to 
 reduce a family to the lowest depths at a moment 
 . . . when it is employing its slight abilities to bring 
 about the rebirth of agriculture and the love of 
 cultivation in its unhappy country. . . . 
 
"Eight children whom you will assist will be the "With the most profound respect 
 
 eternal witnesses of your benevolence and will The said supplicant 
 
 never cease to pray for your protection. Widow of Buonaparte. 
 
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COLONIAL AND 
 REVOLUTIONARY PERIODS 
 
 1. The Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 
 (Founded, 1743). Pamphlet, 1768. 
 
 The American Philosophical Society was founded 
 by Benjamin Franklin to promote "useful knowledge 
 among the British plantations in America." This 
 pamphlet includes: 
 
 I. Observations on the native SILK WORMS of 
 
 North-America, . . . 
 II. Extract from the Minutes of the American 
 
 Philosophical Society, . . . 
 III. A description of a SELF-MOVING or 
 SENTINEL Register, invented by William 
 Henry, . . . 
 
 2. John Hancock. Order, signed, to the Commanding 
 Officer of the Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion, Feb- 
 ruary 12, 1776. 
 
 This document was addressed to the Command- 
 ing Officer of the Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion 
 through Anthony Wayne, who on January 3, 1776, 
 had been appointed colonel of a Chester County 
 Pennsylvania regiment engaged in Continental ser- 
 vice. The order is an extract from the minutes of the 
 Continental Congress counter-signed by the secre- 
 tary, Charles Thomson. 
 
 3. Acts and orders Made at the Continental Court of 
 Commissioners held for the Collony at Portsmouth, 
 March the 10'\ 1657/58. 
 
 4. Acts and orders of the gennerall assembly Sitting 
 at Newport, March the 27, 1666. 
 
 The document commences with a listing of the 
 officers and members of the assembly, including the 
 governor, Benedict Arnold. 
 
 5. Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and Arthur Lee. 
 Letter, signed, (fragment) to , n.d. 
 
 The two-page letter is a report by Franklin, 
 Deane, and Lee on an investigative journey to the 
 Continent. The three gentlemen apparently tra- 
 velled as agents to establish business connections in 
 Europe and to obtain funding. 
 
 The final paragraph states: 
 
 . . . We do not see a Probability of our obtaining a 
 Loan of the 2.000,000 Sterling from any of the 
 Money holders in Europe, till our Affairs are in 
 their Opinion more firmly established: . . . 
 
 6. Circular letter of the Committee of Correspond- 
 ence of Philadelphia to the Committee of Corre- 
 spondence of the County of Berks, April 18, 1775. 
 
 Organized during the Revolutionary period, the 
 committees of correspondence became channels to 
 spread propaganda and sustained support for the 
 patriot party. The signers of this document were 
 Joseph Reed, John Cadwalader, George Clymer, 
 Thomas Mifflin, Jonathan Bayard Smith, John 
 Benezet, John Nixon, James Mease, and Samuel 
 Meredith. 
 
 A portion of the document darkly expresses the 
 belief that: 
 
 . . This is the exigency of affairs that requirs not a 
 moment should be lost in forming military associa- 
 tions throughout this Province. . . . 
 
 of the gennerall assembly Sitting at Newport, March the 27, 
 
7. Richard Henry Lee. Autograph letter to his 
 brother, June 15, 1770. 
 
 Richard Henry Lee during this period was a 
 member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. Writ- 
 ing from Williamsburg, he reported on the work of 
 this legislative body, especially concerning associa- 
 tions, which were agreements for nonimportation of 
 goods. Lee had formed in 1776 the Westmoreland 
 Association to boycott British goods. 
 
 He wrote: 
 
 . . .altho the concurrent, and well grounded opin- 
 ion on your side . . . prove with the light of an 
 axiom that nothing but association can assure us 
 from impending slavery; . . . yet amazing has been 
 the power of opposition here. . . . 
 
 8. George Washington. Autograph letter to 
 , July 19, 1779. 
 
 Washington was at this time Commander-in-Chief 
 of the Continental Army. Writing from West Point, 
 New York, he made an official report on the results 
 of the Battle of Stony Point, New York, on July 16, 
 1779. The battle was a victory for the American 
 forces under General Anthony Wayne. 
 
 The report states in part: 
 
 . . .1 believe the Garrison at Stony Point amounted 
 to about 500 rank & file — of which between twenty 
 & thirty might have been killed — about forty 
 wounded 8c the rest taken. . . . 
 
 9. Anthony Wayne. Autograph document, July 16, 
 1779. 
 
 Wayne was a brigadier general in the Continental 
 Army, having been promoted to that rank on Feb- 
 ruary 21, 1777. On July 16, 1779, he participated in 
 the Battle of Stony Point, in which he scored one of 
 the most impressive victories of the Revolution. 
 
 This additional document pertaining to the Battle 
 of Stony Point is an original draft of the first general 
 orders, giving instructions concerning supplies, se- 
 curing the tents, and a parade of the troops. Wayne 
 also thanked the officers and soldiers for "their 
 coolness and intrepidity" at Stony Point on the night 
 of the 13" 1 . 
 
 10. Philip John Schuyler. Autograph letter to Captain 
 Varick, July 31, 1776. 
 
 On June 15, 1775, Schuyler had been appointed 
 one of the four major generals under George 
 Washington and had been assigned to command the 
 
 Northern Department, which consisted of New 
 York. He wrote this letter from German Flats, a 
 small township in central New York. The addressee, 
 Richard Varick, served as military secretary to 
 Schuyler. 
 
 The letter contains instructions for sending sup- 
 plies to Albany, and thence to the army at Ticon- 
 deroga. Schuyler also instructed Varick to secure ar- 
 ticles for the Indians. 
 11. Charles Thomson. Document signed, November 8, 
 1782. 
 
 During the period, 1774 to 1789, Charles Thom- 
 son served as Secretary of the Continental Congress. 
 His careful record keeping established the basis of 
 the federal government's archives. 
 
 Document signed by Charles Thomson as Secretary of the Continental Congress. 
 
The document is a resolution from the Congress 
 containing instructions for George Washington as 
 Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. 
 Congress declared that the commander-in-chief is 
 authorized to demand satisfaction "whenever the 
 enemy shall committ any act of Cruelty or Violence 
 contrary to the Laws or Wages of War," and to make 
 suitable retaliation if such satisfaction is not pro- 
 cured. 
 
 12. Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, 
 Marquis de Lafayette. Autograph letter to Carter 
 Page, June 12, 1781. 
 
 In July of 1777, Congress voted to bestow the 
 rank and commission of major general on Lafayette. 
 After a furlough in France, he returned to the 
 United States, landing at Boston in April, 1780. Dur- 
 ing 1781 he served in Virginia and took part in the 
 Battle of Yorktown in October of that year. 
 
 In the letter to Carter Page, Lafayette expressed 
 regret at the demobilization of Page's Corps. 
 
 13. Samuel Holder Parsons. Autograph letter to 
 Thomas Mumford, October 23, 1779. 
 
 In 1776, Parsons was commissioned a brigadier 
 general in the Continental Army, and three years 
 later became commander of the Connecticut Divi- 
 sion. 
 
 The letter was written from camp in the High- 
 lands, a hilly region on both sides of the Hudson 
 River in southeast New York. Parsons commented 
 on personal, political, and military matters, com- 
 menting further concerning the British troops: 
 . . . have the particular Satisfaction to be convinc'd 
 by ocular Demonstration that the Enemy have us'd 
 the Spade & Pick as much this Campaign as we did 
 in 76, in Short that the Tables Seem to be fully 
 turned upon them, and their whole System (if they 
 have any) is a defensive One. . . . 
 
 14. William Campbell. Autograph letter to , 
 
 n.d. 
 
 Campbell was the Revolutionary Army colonel 
 who became the nominal leader of the composite 
 force that was victorious at the Battle of Kings 
 Mountain on October 7, 1780. The document is a 
 detailed account of this battle entitled, "The expedi- 
 tion to, and battle on Kings mountain." 
 
 EARLY NATIONAL ERA 
 
 1. George Mason. Autograph letter to William Fitz- 
 hugh, February 23, 1787. 
 
 Mason had an active political career that included 
 serving in the Virginia House of Burgesses, being a 
 member of the committee of safety in Virginia, and 
 framing the Declaration of Rights as well as part of 
 the Virginia constitution. The letter concerns 
 Fitzhugh's Patrick County land. 
 
 2. Aaron Burr. Autograph letter to one Bradley of 
 Westminster, Vermont, August 20, 1792. 
 
 When Burr penned this letter he was a member of 
 the U. S. Senate from New York, his term running 
 from 1791-1797. His purpose in writing was to re- 
 quest a legal opinion from Mr. Bradley because there 
 was a question concerning the votes for governor and 
 lieutenant governor in the last election in New York. 
 
 Burr wrote: 
 
 . . .Several of the most respectable characters in the 
 Southern States have done me this favor and I trust 
 you will not refuse me. . . . 
 
 3. Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin 
 von Steuben, Baron von Steuben. Autograph let- 
 ters to "my (very) dear friend," September 19, 
 1789[?] and October 16, 1790. 
 
 Major General von Steuben served with distinction 
 throughout the Revolutionary War and became an 
 American citizen in 1783. These letters, which were 
 written late in his life, were probably addressed to 
 William North, von Steuben's aide-de-camp, and 
 primarily concern personal matters. 
 
 4. Alexander Hamilton. Autograph letter to S. G. 
 Ober, December 23, 1800. 
 
 The first Secretary of the Treasury commented on 
 the character of Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr: 
 . . .My opinion is, after mature reflection, That if 
 Jefferson and Burr come with equal votes to the 
 House of Representatives, the former ought to be 
 preferred by the Federalists. Mr. Jefferson is re- 
 spectably known in Europe — Mr. Burr little and 
 that little not advantageously for a President of the 
 U States. . . . 
 
 5. Charles Carroll. Autograph letter to Thomas 
 Pinckney, November 21, 1793. 
 
Carroll, a Continental Congressman and U. S. 
 Senator from Maryland, mentioned the "calamitous 
 situation in which France is involved" as well as the 
 epidemic in Philadelphia. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Final page of an autograph letter by Alexander Hamilton, dated December 23, 
 1800. 
 
 6. John Marshall. Document, signed, October 16, 
 
 1794, and a print. 
 The item is entitled, "Mr. Marshall's Opinion as to 
 
 the penalties incurred under the Militia Laws." He 
 
 rendered the view that: 
 
 . . .Only the fine imposed by the Act of Congress 
 ought to be collected. ... I do not think the Sub- 
 jects or Citizens of foreign powers liable to the 
 penalties of Our Milita Law. . . . 
 
 7. Statement of the Receipts and Expenditures of the 
 U. States, from 1. Oct. 1797 to 30. Sept. 1798; Also 
 Statement of Appropria. s unexpended on 14. Nov. 
 1798. 
 
 8. William Bainbridge. Autograph letter to William 
 Jones, January, 1813. 
 
 Bainbridge wrote to the Secretary of the Navy giv- 
 ing a report on the U.S. Frigate Constitution. As a 
 result of the damage to the vessel and its decayed 
 condition, he said, it was necessary to return to the 
 United States for repairs. 
 
 9. John Randolph. Autograph letter to Mrs. Frances 
 Bland Coalter, September 18, 1808. 
 
 Writing to his sister, Randolph explained why he 
 could not visit her. He also commented on other per- 
 sonal matters, such as his present poverty and the 
 state of his and his sister's health. 
 
 PRESIDENTIAL AUTOGRAPHS 
 
 This section of the exhibit contains autograph letters 
 of a majority of the Presidents from George Washington 
 to James A. Garfield. Featured also with the letters are 
 several pictures of Presidents. 
 
 1. George Washington. Letter, signed, to John Page, 
 October 11, 1777, and an autograph letter to the 
 Secretary of War, James McHenry, July 30, 1798. 
 
 Writing from headquarters twenty-six miles from 
 Philadelphia in 1777, Washington wrote: 
 . . .on the morning of the 4" 1 we made a general 
 attack upon the Enemy, who lay encamped in and 
 near German Town. ... At a moment when vic- 
 tory was ready to decide in our favor our Troops 
 retreated and left the field. . . . 
 The letter in 1798 concerns the application of Mr. 
 
 Macharg to the War Office for a position in the 
 
 cavalry. 
 
 2. John Adams. Autograph letter to Dr. Benjamin 
 Rush, November 21, 181 1, and a print of an engrav- 
 ing after the portrait of Adams by Gilbert Stuart. 
 
 The final paragraph states: 
 
 . . .1 am not melancholly nor gloomy, but as much 
 disposed to badinage as ever, as an instance of it, 
 you may expect to receive Letters from me till the 
 
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 Autograph letter of George Washington 
 Mc Henry. 
 
 the Secretary of War, James 
 
 30" 1 of Oct.'" next if I live So long written in the 
 genuine Spirit of Seventy Six. 
 
 3. Thomas Jefferson. Autograph letter to Mr. James 
 Ronaldson, July 18, 1822, and a copy of a letter 
 from Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, n.d. 
 
 In writing to his grandson, Jefferson closed with 
 the following advice: 
 . . .be very select in the society you attach yourself 
 to, avoid Taverns, Drinkers, Smokers, Idlers & dissi- 
 pated persons generally; for it is with such that broils 
 & contentions arise, & you will find your path 
 more easy & tranquil — 
 
 4. James Monroe. Autograph letter to Charles 
 Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, May 19, 1803. 
 
 Monroe was the U. S. Minister to France to ar- 
 range terms for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, and 
 he referred to that mission in his letter. In addition 
 
 he mentioned his plans to travel to Madrid for 
 negotiations with the King of Spain. 
 
 5. John Quincy Adams. Letter, signed, to William C. 
 Bradley, March 9, 1820, and an autograph letter to 
 Stephen R. Bradley, March 12 [?], 1823. 
 
 In the letter to Stephen Bradley, Adams replied to 
 the recollections of General Samuel Smith concern- 
 ing Adams' opinion on the British practice of im- 
 pressing seamen. Adams denied that he ever ap- 
 proved of this practice of impressing men from U. S. 
 vessels at sea. 
 
 6. Andrew Jackson. Autograph letter to Emma 
 Donelson, February 13, 1837. 
 
 The letter is a message of condolence to Mrs. 
 Donelson after the death of her son and Jackson's 
 namesake. 
 
 7. Martin Van Buren. Autograph letter to John 
 Branch, n.d. 
 
 This letter was addressed to Governor Branch 
 while he was Secretary of the Navy between 1829 
 and 1831. 
 
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 Final page of a letter of adiice from Thomas Jefferson to his grandson, Thomas 
 Jefferson Randolph. 
 
William Henry Harrison. Autograph letter to 
 Messrs. Gales and Seaton, October [?] 16, 1822. 
 
 Harrison referred to the payment of his account 
 and then noted his recent defeat in the election, 
 which was for senator in the Ohio legislature. He 
 mentioned the slavery question and corruption in 
 government as contributing factors in his defeat. 
 John Tyler. Autograph letter to John D. McGill, 
 October 25, 1834. 
 
 Tyler apologized to McGill, a lawyer, because he 
 could not accept the invitation to speak on the "exist- 
 ing condition of public affairs" at King and Queen 
 Courthouse, Virginia. 
 
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 10. James Knox Polk. Letters to him from Henry Horn, 
 March 9, 1847, and from John B. Blake, June 12, 
 1847. 
 
 Both letters are inscribed on the last page 
 — "Referred to the Secretary of the Navy" — and 
 initialled by Polk. A single autograph by Polk is en- 
 closed in the Blake letter. 
 
 11. Zachary Taylor. Autograph letter to Major C.J. 
 Nourse, August 4, 1824. 
 
 Taylor wrote to Major Nourse, Acting Adjutant 
 General of the Army, while he was a recruiting of- 
 ficer at Louisville, Kentucky. The letter concerns or- 
 ders on the disposition of certain recruits. 
 
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 Autograph letter from President Abraham Lincoln to Major John J. Key. 
 
12. Millard Fillmore. Autograph letter to Messrs. 
 Gales and Seaton, October 16, 1837. 
 
 Writing from the House of Representatives, Fill- 
 more requested that the remainder of his speeches 
 be sent to the folding room. 
 
 13. Abraham Lincoln. Autograph letter to John J. 
 Key, November 24, 1862; autograph letter to Fred- 
 erick P. Stanton, August 17, 1863; and a report of a 
 speech attributed to Lincoln, n.d. 
 
 The letter to Key concerns his dismissal from the 
 military service, and a case in court is the topic of the 
 letter to Stanton, a lawyer. 
 
 The speech contains corrections, which possibly 
 are in Lincoln's handwriting. In reference to the 
 boundary claims of Maine, the text states: 
 . . .There could not remain a doubt in the mind of 
 any reasonable being that the rectitude of the 
 claims of the State of Maine to the possession of 
 that Territory as an integral portion of her soil 
 were beyond all just controversy. . . . 
 
 14. Ulysses Simpson Grant. Autograph letter to 
 Horace Capron, March 14, 1868, and a print of 
 Grant. 
 
 Grant wrote to Capron, the U. S. Commissioner of 
 Agriculture, in reference to an appointment with 
 one Saunders for some grounds work. The engrav- 
 ing pictures Grant in uniform as a lieutenant gen- 
 eral, with a copy of his signature beneath. 
 
 15. Rutherford Birchard Hayes. Autograph, n.d., 
 under a print of Hayes. 
 
 16. James Abram Garfield. Autograph letter to one 
 Rose, September 24, 1873. 
 
 Writing in 1873, while he was still a member of the 
 U. S. House of Representatives from Ohio, Garfield 
 asked Rose to send some papers which he had ob- 
 tained at the Supreme Court and left behind by mis- 
 take. 
 
 GREAT BRITAIN 
 
 1. Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson. Autograph 
 letter to Perkins Magra, June 20, 1799. 
 
 Lord Nelson, the famous British admiral, lost his 
 right arm in battle in 1797 and had to learn to write 
 with his left hand. This letter of 1799 is an example 
 of his left-handed script. 
 
 2. Sir Richard Grenville. Autograph letter to John 
 Blighe, ca. 1580. 
 
 Grenville, a British naval commander, was a 
 cousin of Sir Walter Raleigh. In 1585 Grenville had 
 brought the colonists to Roanoke Island, North 
 Carolina, and returned the next year to discover the 
 settlement had been abandoned. 
 
 The letter, written in secretary hand, concerns fi- 
 nancial matters. Grenville's signature, though, rep- 
 resents Italian script that eventually supplanted sec- 
 retary hand. 
 
 3. John Wesley. Autograph letter to Ann Avison, Au- 
 gust 21, 1766, and an engraving. 
 
 The celebrated evangelist and leader of 
 Methodism, Wesley wrote this letter from London to 
 his friend Miss Avison, who shortly thereafter mar- 
 ried Richard Terry. It is a letter of consolation and 
 advice, recommending such duties as attending 
 preaching, engaging in private prayer, and reading 
 the New Testament. 
 
 In the portrait Wesley is pictured at the age of 
 sixty-three in clerical robes. 
 
 4. Charles Rich. Autograph letter to , Jan- 
 uary 29, 1815. 
 
 In Washington, Congressman Rich of Vermont 
 wrote that he had just been given the news of Gen- 
 eral Andrew Jackson's victory over the British inva- 
 sion force in the Battle of New Orleans. 
 
 5. Queen Victoria. Document, signed, August 26, 
 1870, and autograph letter to one Ronald, De- 
 cember 17, 1880. 
 
 The 1870 document appointing an officer in the 
 infantry is also signed by Edward Cardwell, Secre- 
 tary for War. 
 
 Queen Victoria wrote most of her official corre- 
 spondence in the third person. This personal letter 
 in 1880, written in the first person, is signed, as were 
 most of her personal communications, "V.R.I." (Vic- 
 toria, Regina et Imperatrix). 
 
6. King Edward VII. Letter, signed, to the Grand 
 Duke of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach, February 22, 1901. 
 
 In the letter Edward VII announced the death of 
 Queen Victoria and his accession to the throne. 
 
 7. Sir Edward Sabine. Autograph letter to James 
 Renwick, October 17, 1843. 
 
 Sabine directed the establishment and work of 
 magnetic observatories in both hemispheres. The 
 observatories began operation in 1840, and in 1843 
 Sabine published the first results, Observations on 
 Days of Unusual Magnetic Disturbance. In this letter to 
 American engineer Renwick, Sabine discussed both 
 his work and this book. 
 
 8. Kate Greenaway. Autograph letter to Lady Maria 
 Ponsonby, February 20, 1899. 
 
 Artist Kate Greenaway achieved fame as an inven- 
 tor and illustrator of children's books of a very origi- 
 nal kind. In her letter to Lady Maria Ponsonby, 
 daughter of the Seventh Earl of Bessborough, Miss 
 Greenaway discussed her illness, flowers, books, and 
 other personal matters. 
 
 9. William Cowper. Autograph letter to Lady Harriet 
 Hesketh, May 2, 
 
 The poet Cowper wrote to his cousin Lady Harriet 
 Hesketh, also his friend and favorite correspondent. 
 He closed with the phrase, "yours with the celerity of 
 lightning." 
 
 10. Samuel Pepys. Letter, signed, to My Lord and 
 Gentlmant^ic], January 7, 1673, and a print of 
 Pepys. 
 
 Pepys, the diarist, was also secretary for the affairs 
 of the British Navy, a post to which he was appointed 
 in about June, 1673. The letter, penned from Darby 
 House, concerns a decision about certain troops and 
 the orders of the king. 
 
 11. Sir Walter Scott. Print with an inscription dated 
 March 11, 1808. 
 
 Scott was the author of numerous works, includ- 
 ing the famous Waverly Novels. The picture 
 mounted on paper contains the following signed 
 note by Scott: "The Reverend Henry White from his 
 affectionate friend." 
 
 12. Robert Burns, Autograph letter (facsimile) to 
 James Johnson, n.d., and autograph letter to 
 "Clarinda" (Mrs. Agnes Craig M'Lehose), March 2, 
 1788, signed "Sylvander." 
 
The poet Burns was the son of William Burness or 
 Burnes, and adopted the different spelling of his 
 name on publishing his first volume in 1786. Burns' 
 correspondent, James Johnson, the Scottish en- 
 graver and publisher, was a good friend of the poet. 
 
 Burns wrote: 
 
 . . . Personal & domestic affliction have almost en- 
 tirely banished that alacrity & life with which I 
 used to woo the rural Muse of Scotia. . . . 
 In Edinburgh Burns became acquainted with Mrs. 
 M'Lehose, first cousin of Lord Craig, judge of the 
 court of session. James M'Lehose had deserted his 
 wife, who lived in Edinburgh with three children. 
 Burns and Mrs. M'Lehose met several times and 
 then corresponded when he left the city. Their let- 
 ters, signed Clarinda and Sylvander, often dealt with 
 poetry and religious matters. In the 1788 letter 
 Burns mentioned his travels, a farming scheme, and 
 his longing to see Mrs. M'Lehose. 
 13. George Bernard Shaw. Scrapbook, 1916-1951. 
 
 Shaw, the famed playwright who wrote such 
 dramas as Pygmalion and The Devil's Disciple, was a 
 man of sharp wit and varied interests. These charac- 
 teristics are revealed in the volume of clippings and a 
 Shaw letter of 1927. 
 
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 Letter signed by Samuel Pepys, the British diarist. 
 
 An engraving from a drawing of Mrs. Howe. 
 
 AMERICAN WRITERS 
 
 1. Julia Ward Howe. "Battle Hymn of the Republic," 
 holograph manuscript signed, n.d., and an engraving 
 from a drawing of Mrs. Howe. 
 
 Mrs. Howe, author and reformer, wrote the "Battle 
 Hymn" in 1861 while visiting General McClellan's 
 army in Washington, D. C. The poem was printed in 
 the Atlantic Monthly for February 1862, and published 
 later that year as a song. 
 
 2. Washington Irving. Autograph notes, n.d. 
 
 The notes are fragments in Irving's handwriting. 
 He wrote: 
 
 . . .The most interesting and affecting of these 
 memorials is one traced by the hand of the gentle 
 and unhappy Lady Jane Grey. It consisted of a 
 small escutcheon feebly cut in stone and above it 
 was engraved in the same slight and delicate way 
 her Christian name Jane. . . . 
 
3. William Gilmore Simms. Autograph note, n.d. 
 
 The item contains a note at the top by the British 
 author Richard Twiss in 1775. At the bottom of the 
 note Simms, an author from Charleston, S. C, wrote 
 that this page was from a presentation copy of Travels 
 Through Portugal and Spain, in 1772 and 1773 by 
 Twiss. 
 
 4. George Ticknor. Autograph letter to Messrs. Gales 
 and Seaton, November 29, 1826. 
 
 Ticknor — author, historian, and educator — wrote 
 concerning a subscription to the Daily National 
 Intelligencer. 
 
 THE CIVIL WAR AND ITS LEADERS 
 
 1. Daniel Ruggles. Report submitted to him by 
 Thomas H. Williamson, H. H. Sims, and William H. 
 Ker, April 24, 1861. 
 
 This report concerning the fortification and de- 
 fense of Acquia Creek, in Stafford County, Virginia, 
 was prepared by a board of engineers. A map of the 
 area is enclosed. A pencilled note indicates that 
 Ruggles did not accept the recommendations. 
 
 2. Daniel Ruggles. Autograph letter to Robert S. 
 Garnett, May 6, 1861. 
 
 As a colonel in the Virginia Volunteers, Ruggles 
 was writing to Colonel Garnett, Adjutant General of 
 the Virginia State Troops. Ruggles mentioned that 
 he was transmitting a report by Major Thomas H. 
 Williamson concerning the proposed battery at 
 Mathias Point on the Potomac River. In addition he 
 discussed his reasons for deciding that the Acquia 
 Creek landing was of secondary importance in a de- 
 fense strategy. 
 
 3. Thomas Jonathan Jackson. Autograph letter to 
 John Letcher, May 3, 1861. 
 
 Jackson wrote to Governor Letcher regarding ac- 
 cepting the services of the Maryland Volunteers. A 
 note on the verso of the letter by Robert E. Lee ad- 
 vised accepting them since "otherwise they might be 
 enlisted in the Provisional Army." 
 
 4. Robert Edward Lee. Two photographs. 
 
 These carte-de-visite photographs show General 
 Lee in civilian clothes. In one picture he is standing 
 beside his famous war horse "Traveller." 
 
 5. Robert Edward Lee. Autograph letter to Samuel 
 Cooper, January 8, 1865. 
 
 This letter written to General Cooper, Adjutant 
 and Inspector General of the Confederate Army, 
 during the last months of the Civil War refers to 
 certain orders Lee had issued but which had not 
 been properly implemented. He further wrote: 
 . . .That is not what I requested, nor does it answer 
 the purpose intended — My object was to give Genl 
 Echols the benefit of Col. Chandlers aid & Counsel 
 in correcting abuses, securing discipline & en- 
 forcement of orders. . . . 
 
 6. James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart. Autograph 
 letter to his wife Flora (Cooke) Stuart, June 3, 1861. 
 
 Writing briefly from the battlefield, Stuart notes 
 that "My flag is still flying." He also refers to the 
 successful seizure of a ferry boat by his troops the 
 night before. 
 
 7. Battle of Young's Branch: or, Manassas Plain, 
 Fought July 21, 1861. ... An Account of the Battle. 
 Also, The Battle Ground of the 18th July, 1861, with 
 General Beauregard's Report of Said Battle. By 
 T. B. Warder and Jas. M. Catlett. 
 
 Published in 1862 in Richmond, Virginia, this 
 book contains a large map of the battlefield at Ma- 
 nassas. 
 
 8. Reports of the Battles of Fredericksburg, Get- 
 tysburg, and Manassas. Various dates. 
 
 An unsigned report on the Battle of Fredericks- 
 burg is dated December 23, 1862. On the final page 
 is the comment that: 
 . . .During the entire four days of exposure, sus- 
 pense and danger both officers & men evinced the 
 true spirit of patriots & soldiers. . . . 
 
 9. Rally Round the Flag Boys! Broadside, Sep- 
 tember 3, 1864. 
 
 The broadside announced an appeal by Captain 
 W. C. Baskin for men to comprise a cavalry company 
 as escort for Major General Martin. 
 
 Baskin advertised that: 
 
 . . .Any one wishing an easy position will come 
 forward and enroll their names. The duties are 
 light, and the advantages far better than in a regi- 
 ment. 
 
10. Clipping from the South Carolinian, n.d. 
 
 This cutting from the South Carolinian was evi- 
 dently printed in early April, 1865, because it details 
 the evacuation of Richmond by the Confederates on 
 April 2-3 of that year. Another article concerns 
 military events in Georgia. 
 
 11. Braxton Bragg. Autograph letter to Jefferson 
 Davis, May 22, 1863. 
 
 General Bragg wrote to President Davis in order 
 to forward a report of the Kentucky campaign and 
 to discuss related matters. 
 
 He further wrote: 
 
 . . .Genl. Kirby Smith's appeals to me were more 
 frequent and much more urgent, than Polk's or 
 Hardee's, for a concentration of the whole forces 
 in front of him: and I did all I could, by personal 
 labor and orders, to accomplish that object — for 
 our only hope of success was lost when the supplies 
 accumulated by him in Lexington at so much risk 
 and with so much labor were sacrificed. . . . 
 
 12. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. Autograph 
 letter to Braxton Bragg, April 26, 1864. 
 
 General Beauregard wrote to General Bragg not- 
 ing that he expected active operations to commence 
 in the Department of North Carolina and Southern 
 Virginia at any moment. Therefore, Beauregard 
 urged the prompt assignment of necessary staff to 
 fill the ranks. Enclosed with the letter is a hand 
 drawn map which portrays the area bordering on 
 both sides of the Potomac River from Westmoreland 
 to Fairfax counties in Virginia and from Saint Marys 
 to Prince Georges counties in Maryland. 
 
 13. Samuel Francis Du Pont. Engraving. 
 
 Du Pont was the Union Admiral who commanded 
 the fleet that sailed to Port Royal in October, 1861, 
 and was granted the rank of Rear Admiral for this 
 victory. Du Pont's uncle was Eleuthere Irenee Du 
 Pont, founder of the chemical company. The signed 
 picture portrays Du Pont seated at a table in uni- 
 form. 
 
 14. William Tecumseh Sherman. Engraving. 
 
 This copy of an engraving pictures Sherman seat- 
 ed in uniform in a "Napoleonic pose." His auto- 
 graph is affixed beneath the portrait. 
 
 15. William Tecumseh Sherman. Autograph letter to 
 Charles H. Hoyt, August 6, 1865. 
 
 Writing to his friend Hoyt in Detroit, Sherman 
 spoke of a trip to St. Louis to "get all the matters of 
 my Division in good working order." Sherman 
 further wrote concerning his financial problems and 
 personal matters. 
 
 16. "The Conquered Banner." Sheet music, 1866. 
 
 The music, which was published in New Orleans, 
 is from a poem by Moina and was composed by 
 Theodore von Lahache. 
 
 17. William Tecumseh Sherman. Address of Gen. W. T. 
 Sherman to the Graduating Class of 1869 U.S.M.A. 
 
 There are three letters dated 1869 enclosed with 
 the volume, including one written in April to Gen- 
 eral Thomas Gamble Pitcher, Superintendent of the 
 Academy, in which Sherman accepted the speaking 
 
 RALLY R01AD THE 
 
 FUG BOYS! 
 
 I am authorized to ruise n cavalry company a» es- 
 cort for Major General Martin. This company 
 will not l»e attached to any brigade or regiment, but 
 will be organized permanently as an escort com- 
 pany to nerve during the war. 
 
 Any one wishing an easy position will come for- 
 ward "and enroll their names. The duties are light, 
 and the ad» ant age* far better than in a regiment. 
 
 Trannfern «•!/# be received from the 
 Stnte Troopn. 
 
 W. C. BASKIN, Capt. 
 SEPT. 3, 1864. 
 
 Civil War Broadside 
 
engagement. The other two letters dated in October 
 refer to returning the volume to Pitcher with 
 Sherman's signature. 
 Sherman closed his address with these words: 
 . . .And you may rest assured that your ultimate 
 fate and fame will result from the Laws of God, 
 designed for living men, as wise, and beneficent, 
 and far more intricate than those which guide the 
 dead Planets in their spheres. 
 
 18. Jefferson Davis. Autograph letter to James Alex- 
 ander Seddon, August 18, 1874. 
 
 Davis wrote to Seddon, who had been the Confed- 
 erate Secretary of War, his opinion of General 
 Joseph E. Johnston. He expressed distrust of John- 
 ston as an independent commander. 
 
 19. Jefferson Davis. Interview by Augustus C. Buell, 
 1876, 115 pages. 
 
 Buell, a journalist, obtained this interview while on 
 assignment in New Orleans for a syndicate of west- 
 ern and southern newspapers. Describing Davis, 
 Buell wrote in part: 
 . . .But, despite his illness, he displayed a vigor of 
 thought and a force of expression that I have 
 never seen or heard surpassed by any man. . . . 
 
 THE SOUTH 
 
 1. William Gilmore Simms. Autograph letter to Wil- 
 liam Campbell Preston, n.d. 
 
 The letter contains a printed, unsigned petition for 
 a law to regulate the copyrighting of books, which was 
 addressed to the Senate and House of Representa- 
 tives of the United States. Simms wrote his letter on 
 the verso, asking for Preston's assistance in this mat- 
 ter. 
 
 2. Joel Chandler Harris. Autograph letter to My Dear 
 Sir, March 29, 1884. 
 
 Harris wrote on stationery from the Editorial 
 Rooms of The Constitution, where he was an editor for 
 twenty-five years. The letter states: 
 
 I sympathize most heartily with your project, but I 
 am not and never expect to be a lecturer. 
 
 3. David Hunter Strother. Letter to him from John 
 Brown's business partner, December 27, 1869. 
 
 The letter gives a history of John Brown's life and 
 business career. About 1870 Strother was preparing 
 to write a work on John Brown at Harpers Ferry, but 
 the manuscript was never finished. 
 
 Commenting on Brown's views, the letter notes: 
 . . .He was an Old School Presbyterian and believed 
 fully in predestination, and often Said he believed 
 that God had a Work for him to do in freeing 
 Slaves from bondage, . . . 
 
 4. Cyphering Book of W. A. Williams, July 5, 1825. 
 
 The book, from Fayetteville, North Carolina, con- 
 tains instructions and examples for such simple 
 mathematical procedures as addition, subtraction, 
 
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 Page from the Cyphering Book ofW. A. Williams. 
 
multiplication, and division. At the end are charts for 
 weights and measures. 
 
 5. Articles of a Treaty concluded at Hopewell on the 
 Keowee river Between Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew 
 Pickens, Joseph Martin and Lochlin [sk] Mcintosh 
 Commissioners Plenipotentiary of the United States 
 of America of the one part, and the Head men of 
 Warriors of all the Cherokees of the other. Copy, 
 November 28, 1785. 
 
 6. William Lowndes Yancey. Autograph letter to 
 Messrs. Smith, Greene, and White, October 30, 1846. 
 
 Yancey, U. S. Congressman from Alabama, became 
 a leading advocate of secession. In the letter he ac- 
 cepted the honor of being unanimously elected an 
 honorary member of the "Phi Delta" Society at Ogle- 
 thorpe University. 
 
 7. The Cotton Plantation Record and Account 
 Book, No. 1, Suitable For a Force of 40 Hands, Or 
 Under. By Thomas Affleck. Published in 1851 in 
 New Orleans by Weld and Company. 
 
 This particular book, spanning the years 1854 to 
 1875, was for the Jos. Starke Sims Plantation, which 
 was probably located in Union County, South 
 Carolina. A vehicle for maintaining detailed records, 
 the volume consists of such categories as "Inventory 
 of Stock and Implements," "Daily Record of Passing 
 Events," and "Daily Record of Cotton Picked." The 
 book closes with a printed essay on "The Duties of an 
 Overseer." 
 
 CALENDAR OF ADDITIONAL ITEMS 
 
 1. The California Herald. Published in New York by 
 James Gordon Bennett, December 26, 1848. 
 
 2. Elias Boudinot. Document, signed, July 20, 1804. 
 Signed also by George Fox. 
 
 3. John Rutledge, Jr. Autograph letter to , 
 
 February 1, 1802. 
 
 4. Oliver Hazard Perry. Letter (copy) to Sailing Master 
 Dobbins, September 4, 1813 [?]; Autograph letter to 
 Benjamin Williams Crowninshield, September 4, 
 1817; and a print of Perry. 
 
 5. Nathan Hale, journalist. Autograph letter to James 
 Ronaldson, April 28, 1820. 
 
 6. Horace Greeley. Autograph letter to Mrs. E. Oakes 
 Smith, November 1, 1851. 
 
 7. A copy of the Location of the West Survey of Patrick 
 Henrys & George Shelby as it Stands on the Books, 
 on verso of William Hen. Smith letter to Henry Lee, 
 March 30, 1797. 
 
 8. Joel Roberts Poinsett. Autograph letter from 
 Heman Allen, former congressman and U. S. Minis- 
 ter to Chile, to Poinsett, September 25, 1839. 
 
 9. Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson. Auto- 
 graph letter to his brother, September 1, 1859. 
 
 10. Raphael Semmes. Autograph letter to David Hen- 
 shaw, September 27, 1843. 
 
 11. Benjamin Franklin Butler (1795-1858), cabinet of- 
 ficer. Autograph letter to Messrs. Gales and Seaton, 
 December 30, 1828. 
 
 12. Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818-1893), army officer 
 and Governor of Massachusetts. A cartoon with the 
 caption, "I never wish to defend a man unless I know 
 that he is guilty." n.d. 
 
 13. Daniel Webster. Autograph letter to General Kim- 
 berly [?], November 25, 1840. 
 
 14. William Bainbridge. Report of the Affairs of the 
 U. S. Frigate Constitution, autograph document, 
 addressed to William Jones (1760-1831), U. S. Sec- 
 retary of hhe Navy, February 19, 1813. 
 
 15. Charles Thomson. Extract from the minutes of the 
 Continental Congress, Document, signed, Sep- 
 tember 25, 1776. 
 
 16. Giles Mumford. Autograph letter to his father, 
 Thomas Mumford, October 27, 1777. 
 
 17. George Bancroft. Autograph letter to Major Mayer 
 [Brantz Mayer?], February 9, 1865. 
 
 18. Joseph S. Sims. Bound volume containing speeches, 
 letters, and a debate, November 6, 1818. 
 
 19. Mary Webb, resident at St. Helena during 
 Napoleon's exile there. Autograph letter to Miss Rat- 
 ledge, September 20, 1817. 
 
 20. Griffith Rutherford. Autograph letter to the Coun- 
 sel of Safety of North Carolina, July 10, 1776.