Henry William Elson (1857-1935) was a professor of history at Ohio State University. He states in the preface that he has endeavored to write this history for the general reader . He says that he has tried to include information about the lives of the people and not just politics, government and industry.
Letter from the secretary of state, enclosing the reports of the late and present director of the Mint : exhibiting the state of that establishment, and shewing the necessity of some further legislative provisions to render it more efficient and secure. : 14th December 1795, committed to the committee of the whole House, on the state of the union
Printed by Francis and Robert Bailey, at Yorick's Head, no. 116, High-Street.,
Date of Publication
M, DCC, XCV. [1795]
Physical Description
14 pages ; 23 cm (8vo)
Notes
The directors were Henry William De Saussure and Elias Boudinot.
Signatures: [A]â´ Bâ´ (B4 blank).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 459 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with An address &c. recommendations to the states, bhy the United States in Congress assembled. Philadelpbia: printed by David C. Claypoole, 1783 -- An examination of the Constitution for the United States of America, submitted to the people fy the General Convention....Philadelphia: Printed by Zacharariah Poulson, Junr...1788 -- Proceedings in the House of Representatives of the United States of America respecting the contested election for the eastern district of Georgia. : Philadelphia, printed by Parry Hall...1792 -- A calm appeal to the people of the State of Delaware. ... Philadelphia: Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junr... date not specified -- An enquiry into the principles and tendency of certain public measures. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson... 1784; -- A vindication of Mr. Randophs's resignation. Philadelphia: printed by Samuel Smith...1795 -- The pretensions of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency examined; and the charges against John Adams refuted...United States, October 1796 -- Observations on the speech of Albert Gallatin, in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the foreign intercourse bill. Washington: Printed by John Colerick, 1798 -- The speech of Mr. Bayard on the foreign intecourse bill delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States on the third day of March 1798. -- The address of the minority in the Virginia Legislature to the people of that state; containing a vindication of the constitutionality of the alien and sedition laws Printer not specified, date not specified -- Analysis of the report of the committee of the Virginia Assembly, on the preceedings of sundry of the other States in answer to their resolutions. Philadelphia, printed by Zachariah Poulson, junior, 1800 -- Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, on the answers of sundry states to their resolutions, passed in December, 1798. Philadelphia, printed by James Carey, 1800.
Original manuscript in collection of Historical Society of Pennsylvania .
Labeled on box # 244.
Table of contents found in William Henry Papers. 926 H525.
Photocopy of some of correspondence is found in oversize collection. 926 H525 v. 1-6.
See also Microfilm 244A for additional manuscript material on William Henry.
Description found in Guide to the Manuscript Collections in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania : "William Henry Papers, 1759-1812. Correspondence and other documents relating to Henry's political interests in Lancaster County and his activities during the Revolution; there are, also, a few additional items of a miscellaneous character. The papers include: letters, documents, and accounts, 1759-1812; ledger, 1777-79; a record of the "disbursements of the Hide Department,"1779-83; Lancaster County doket, 1774-80; J. J. Henry's journal of the campaign against Quebec, 1775; his notes for a history of the Indian nations, with maps of Pennsylvania counties; sixteen letters to William Henry, 1777, 1783, published in P.M.H.B., XXII(1898), 106-113.
