January 1791- June 1791

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839

Magazine

Title: The American Museum or Universal Magazine. [Vol. 9 (1791)]

Contains six monthly issues, January to June 1791. Bound in contemporary leather. Published by Carey, Stewart & Co. Contains a lot of information on American history at the beginning of the U.S. Government, Indian "depradations (sic)," Washington's proclamation establishing the District of Columbia, state constitutions (Appendix II), much early American poetry, patriotic and humorous anecdotes, etc.

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July 1788- December 1788

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839

Magazine

Title: The American Museum: or repository of ancient and modern fugitive pieces, & c. prose and poetical. Volume IV.

Printed by Carey. Carey dedicates this volume to General George Washington. Includes a printing of Washington's farewell orders to the armies of the United States, issued 2 November 1783 from Rocky Hill, near Princeton, New Jersey (pages 240-242). Also includes a letter observing that in Maryland, "negroes are to be introduced [in Maryland] instead of paper money as a medium of commerce" (page 52). Includes various indications of ownership on inner front and back covers (formerly owned by Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia). Also includes, "Observations on bartering Negroes," "An account…

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January 1789- June 1789

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839

Magazine

Title: The American Museum: or repository of ancient and modern fugitive pieces, &c. prose and poetical. [Vol. 5 (January 1789-June 1789)].

Includes six monthly issues. Contains a congratulatory note from Pennsylvania's Executive Council to President George Washington (with Washington's reply following, page 329). Includes a description of Washington's 21 April 1789 arrival to the United States Governmental seat (page 417). Contains congratulatory addresses from the citizens of Baltimore, the Pennsylvania State Society of the Cincinnati, and the Philadelphia Mayor, along with several of Washington's replies (433-436). Includes Washington's 30 April 1789 Inaugural Address to Congress (436-438). Contains various articles and…

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September 1790

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839

Magazine

Title: [American Museum or Universal magazine; volume VIII, no. 3].

Signed by Secretary of War Henry Knox. Includes Jefferson's report on currency and weight and measures, Washington's State of the Union address, and a letter by Franklin on death by lightning strike. Printed by Carey, Stewart, & Co.

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February 1791

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839

Magazine

Title: The American Museum, or Universal magazine, for February, 1791.

Disbound. Consists of pages 62-116. Printed by Carey. Contains essays on happiness, Lord Chesterfield's letters, astronomy, the microscope, and English literature, among various other topics. One essay, appearing on pages 99-107, is titled "The negro equalled by few Europeans."

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1789

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839

Book

Title: The American Museum, volume 6

The American Museum Volume VI, Philadelphia, containing twenty articles on African Americans including Samuel Stanhope Smith's "Essay of the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species," Ben Franklin's "Address to the Public from the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes, Unlawfully Held in Bondage," and a 46-page section of the proceedings of the Congress.

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1787/09

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839

Magazine

Title: The American Museum. [Vol. II, no. 3 (September 1787)]

Contains the first magazine printing of the United States Constitution on p. 276-284. Also contains an essay by Benjamin Franklin on "Information for those who would wish to remove to America. Also features political sketches, an address to "friends of American Manufacturers," reflections encouraging commerce, articles on agriculture, political culture, and various prose and poetry. Provenance from the library of Henry Knox, although without ownership marks.

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1838/04/09

Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J. H. Couston re: efforts to allow women to work

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