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Jefferson's Attempted Seduction of His Friend's Wife - the Alleged Affair by THOMAS JEFFERSON

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Title: Jefferson's Attempted Seduction of His Friend's Wife - the Alleged Affair
Author: THOMAS JEFFERSON
Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: A piece in the Boston Gazette criticizing a passage in the Richmond Enquirer, "a partisan paper of Mr. Jefferson" that defended his attempt to "seduce the wife of his friend." They ask "has the spirit of party, then, so far subdued the sense of moral right in our country…to rescue a vile Letcher from the merited reproach." [THOMAS JEFFERSON]. Newspaper. Boston Gazette, July 18, 1805. 4 pp., 13½ x 20 in. Excerpt (p.2 col.1) "An Appeal To Uncorrupted Minds It was not my intention to have noticed Mr. Jefferson's amours.- Respect and tenderness to the injured and unoffending forbad the discussion. But when an attempt is made to demoralize the nation by a bold and unqualified avowal and justification of crimes, it ceases to be a question of delicacy, whether the attempt shall be repelled, and the people be roused to a sense of the insult that is offered to their virtue and understanding. The abandoned profligacy of the following article, copied from "the Richmond Enquirer," a partisan paper of Mr. Jefferson, is worthy of the man and the cause which it espouses : - "If the Tale of Mrs. Walker was rehearsed to a nation of anchorites they would smile at its absurdity; that an individual should be abused censured and threatened with exposure in the public prints, for having, forty years since, felt an improper passion. At a time, when from youth, exemption from matrimonial obligations, the force of feeling might be pleaded with justice." As an introductory to a system of ethics, founded on the precepts and practice of our amiable Philosopher and rigid Moralist, this essay, at the subversion of all that is dear to man in the most interesting relations of life, will no doubt be peculiarly acceptable to the disciples of the new philosophy – In minds, however, not yet tainted with these detestable doctrines (and as such I trust the great majority is composed) it cannot fail to excite every sentiment of virtuous indignation, or to produce a correspondent expression of abhorrence and disgust. I entreat the Father of every family in the United States – I conjure every husband , Son, and Brother, to peruse the above recited article with attention – if possible, with dispassionate attention –and to say, whether the annals of the most depraved people have in any age exhibited a fouler and more scandalous attempt at national corruption and dishonor. Gracious Heaven! has the spirit of party, then so far subdued the sense of moral right in our country, that, to rescue a vile Letcher from the merited reproach, which his guilt has incurred, we are content that our national character should be branded with infamy, our morals be poisoned in their source, and proclamation made throughout the world, that the people of the united States consider a deliberate system of seduction, persisted in for years, under every aggravation of circumstances, as an affair to be justified, and even smiled at! The base idea set forth in the recited article that Mr. Jefferson, being under no matrimonial restraints, was at liberty to peruse his debauchery to any extent, that his libidinous wishes might suggest, is a false in fact as it is flagitious in sentiment. Mr. Jefferson (see Mr. Turner's letter) was the husband of an amiable and virtuous woman at the time when he sought to seduce the wife of his friend. His obligations to that friend were of a nature not merely to have controuled his passions, but to have commanded his gratitude. His attempt, therefore, was not only an infraction of the divine and moral law; but a violation of the confidence, which a friend and benefactor had reposed in his honor. Mr. Jefferson, under any plea that he, or his minions can devise, will try in vain to invalidate this statement—even the affectation of being 'conscious of no passion that could seduce him from his duty' will not avail. Unimpassioned lust, and smiling vengeance were the attributes of an execrable Tyrant, not less distinguished by his folly than his crimes. Probus." Historical Background At age 25, Jefferson was asked by his childhood friend John Walker to stay at his home and watch his young wife and daughter while he was away on a business trip. During the four month period Jefferson stayed with the family it is rumored that an affair or attempts at an affair by Jefferson occurred. Another rumored incident a few years later occurred when John Walker, who was still unaware of any of Jefferson's previous attempts at his wife, and his wife came to visit Jefferson. Jefferson allegedly sought out Mrs. Walker in private and made attempts to seduce her, leaving only when Mrs. Walker threatened to scream. Also includes a report of the duel between Brigadier General Benjamin Smith and Captain Maurice Moore (p. 2) and a section on the effects of lightning in Hillsborough, N.H. (p. 2). Another section offers a "Complete list of the Consuls and American Agents of the United States" (p.2 col.3).

REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF JOHN WADE, FOR ARSON, BEFORE THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT. HOLDEN AT DEDHAM, OCT. TERM, 1835 by [Wade, John]

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Title: REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF JOHN WADE, FOR ARSON, BEFORE THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT. HOLDEN AT DEDHAM, OCT. TERM, 1835
Author: [Wade, John]
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Dedham: Dedham Patriot Office, 1835. 40pp. Stitched, mild toning, occasional light foxing, Very Good. Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw presided. His eight-page charge to the jury, and his three-page address to the prisoner are printed. Names of jurors and counsel are listed. Wade had been indicted earlier "for the same burning, but was acquitted; because the right owners of the barn had not been set out in the indictment." Wade's claim of double jeopardy was rejected, and his new trial went forward. This, the only separately published account of the trial, summarizes the arguments of counsel and the testimony of witnesses on direct and cross-examination. On October 30, 1832, Wade torched a barn; the fire spread to nearby properties. The trial occurred on October 28, 1835. The jury found him guilty. Chief Justice Shaw sentenced him to "be hanged by the neck, until you are DEAD. And may the God of all justice and grace, in his infinite goodness, have mercy on your soul." Cohen 12152. II Harv. Law Cat. 1217.

The hieroglyphick Bible; or select passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical figures, for the amusement of youth ... illustrated with nearly five hundred cuts

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Title: The hieroglyphick Bible; or select passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical figures, for the amusement of youth ... illustrated with nearly five hundred cuts
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1825. Fourth edition, 12mo, pp.129, [1]; lacking pages 9-10, 47-96, 125-128, and 130-[134] (page 130 being blank in this copy but with text on copies checked online); woodblock illustrations throughout text, many crudely hand colored; calf-backed paper-covered boards; spine partially perished, textblock split and pp. 37-38 loose; a deeply flawed copy, but still a visually interesting novelty, telling the major stories of the Bible through a rebus text. This edition is in neither Osborn nor Welch, both of whom list a number of different editions. American Imprints 19677.

HOME CANNING IN WARTIME: A VICTORY GUIDE TO CANNING, PRESERVING, PICKLING AND DRYING by Elsie Clarke

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Title: HOME CANNING IN WARTIME: A VICTORY GUIDE TO CANNING, PRESERVING, PICKLING AND DRYING
Author: Elsie Clarke
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Good+
Description: NY: The World Publishing Company, 1943. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good+. Uncommon US wartime home economics publication. Red plastic spiral, pictorial covers, soiled. 123 pages, leaves toned, as expected (cheap, pulp, wartime, stock).

Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts. Edited with an Introduction by Harriet Zinnes. by Zinnes, Harriet; Editor.

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Title: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts. Edited with an Introduction by Harriet Zinnes.
Author: Zinnes, Harriet; Editor.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: A New Directions Book, (1980). First Edition. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 322 pp. Fine in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: As a prime mover of modernism, Ezra Pound applied his unflagging energy to an astonishing range of activities. His early associations with Wyndham Lewis and the young sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska are well known. What has been generally overlooked, however, is the degree to which Pounds’ continued participation int he art world influenced the reshaping of our perceptions. Ezra Pound and the Visiual Arts is the first gathering of the poet’s writings in the field. In the opening section are assembled all of his art reviews contributed to Lond’s The New Age in the years 1913-22. It iwas at this same time that he, with Lewis and others, launched the Vorticist movement, and the next section includes his heady, often vehement pronouncements, along with a discussion of the new art form of “vortography.” Subsequent parts present Pound’s intense opinions on the visual arts reflected over the course of his lifetime: his articles of miscellaneous periodicals; previously unpublished letters to the American art patron John Quinn; relevant excerpts from published books; and a further selection of uncollected manuscripts and papers, from 1909 to 1957. Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts, edited by Harriet Zinnes, art critic, poet, fiction writer, and professor of English at Queens College of the City University of New York, is a companion volume to R. Murray Schafer’s Ezra Pound and Music (1977). Together, these two books serve to document the poet’s unsparing efforts beyond the confines of literature in laying the aesthetic groundwork for the contemporary arts.

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