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The Manuscript of Jefferson's Unpublished Errata List for Abbé Morellet's Translation of the Notes on Virginia by Joseph M. Carrière
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Some Correspondence with Thomas Jefferson Concerning the Public Printers Transcribed, with a Foreword, by Jessie Ryon Lucke
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In The Savoy: A Study in Post-Restoration Imprints by C. William Miller
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Three Shakespeare Piracies in the Eighteenth Century by Giles E. Dawson
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The Compositor of the "Pied Bull" Lear by Philip Williams
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The First Five Bookes of Ovid's Metamorphosis, 1621, Englished by James G. McManaway
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The Art of Selling Books: Notes on three Aldus Catalogues, 1586-1592 by Rudolf Hirsch
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The Text of Chaucer's Purse by George B. Pace
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The Headlines of William de Machlinia's Year-Book, 37 Henry VI by Curt F. Bühler
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Sir John Davies' Nosce Teipsum, 1599: A Bibliographical Puzzle by Gerald J. Eberle
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New Uses of Watermarks As Bibliographical Evidence by Allan H. Stevenson
  
A St. Memin Plate, With Some Notes on Other St. Memin Portraits Fillmore Norfleet
  
A Bibliographical Note from the Beaumont and Fletcher First Folio Guy A. Battle
  
Center Rules in Folio Printing: A New Kind of Bibliographical Evidence James S. Steck
  
Textual Revision in Crashaw's "Vpon the Bleeding Crvcifix" George W. Williams
  
The Hallam-Tennyson POEMS (1830) Mary Virginia Bowman
  
Running-Title Evidence for Determining Half-Sheet Imposition Fredson Bowers

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letter 12

Sir

The late application of Mr. Brown to Congress which has been referred to you, induces us respectfully to state, that sometime in December last, we commenced the publication of a new or second edition of the Acts of Congress passed at the first session; that this publication is nearly completed, and that another, smaller edition, is considerably advanced upon; that it is our intention

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to publish like editions of the Acts, Treaties, &c. of the second session, and so to continue for the present and all future sessions like publications as they shall become necessary:—From whence we beg leave to submit, how far the result of any decision on Mr. Brown's case may include ours, or others similar thereto, or establish any particular or exclusive indulgence in his favor—Being with every sentiment of the most perfect regard and esteem,

Sir,
Your most obedt
and very hble servts.
Childs & Swaine
Philad.a Jan.y 27th 1791.
['Chiles [sic] & Swaine. 1791 | rec.d Jan. 27.' on the back of the letter is in Jefferson's hand except for '1791'.]
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