expresses himself: "I will thank you to give the enclosed manuscript to Oliver & Munroe, to be published immediately. If they do not choose to print it you may get any other printer to do it when you please. It is not meant for electioneering, but for self-defence; and to give the public my views of public affairs. The printers will give perhaps a few copies for the manuscript. I want only half a dozen. One of which I will thank you to present in my name to Mr. H. G. Otis, one to Governor Sullivan, and one to my father. The three others I will thank you to send to me as soon as possible, that they may reach this place before the adjournment of Congress. When I say that you may give it to the printers, I ought to add, that there must be no copy-right, and above all no puffing preface.'

April 9. From Miss Hannah Adams at Dedham. "I hope you have received my Summary History of New England, and Truth and Excellence of the Christian Religion, which I sent for the Athenæum. When I come to Boston I intend to procure one of my Views of Religions and my Abridgments for the same purpose. I hope before this time you have been reimbursed for the money you advanced towards printing my Abridgment. I find by the Evangelical Magazine, my Abridgment has been printed in England. I have made considerable progress in my History of the Jews this winter, but at present am much out of health. If you would have the goodness to favor me with a line, you will add to the many favors you have conferred upon me."

CHAPTER XII.

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Episcopacy - Liverpool Athenæum Pomare, King of Otaheiti Embargo-French in Spain-Canandaigua-Toasts-Talleyrand's Memoir-Law Books-French and Italian Volumes-ReadingRoom in New York-Spirit of '76-History of Printing-Kendall's Travels - Redwood Library - Constitution of the United States-Midnight Study.

April 20. From Charles King in New York. Having agreed to give a description of the Harrow school, he promises that it shall be done after he has heard from his former tutor in that institution. "Mr. Otis and party arrived here on Friday last, and have rendered our city very gay, though we have to regret, that the shortness of their intended residence among us, will only tend to illumine without warming its inhabitants. I am happy to find that you are at least a little better in politics than last year, and though your Governor has failed, his Lieutenant and Senate are of consequence. We are very sanguine here with regard to our election, which comes on shortly, with how much reason, I know not."

April 23. From John Q. Adams in Washington. "I have received your two letters of last week, with a dozen copies of my letter to Mr. Otis, and Mr. Gardiner's Fast sermon. I thank you most cordially for the promptitude with which you executed

the charge of publication. I find the federal newspapers of Boston, which began with a system of silence about my letter, have at last found their tongues. Of the use which their opponents make of this paper, I cannot be surprised. But if there be such a person as a candid and impartial federalist, (and I trust the great majority of them are such,) I ask him to say who is justly chargeable with my publication, and all its effects, whatever they may be. I had no party purpose, no electioneering views. But an attack so violent, and at such a time, and in such a manner, was a strong call upon me for notice. Yet I have most truly said that this alone, I would have overlooked. My motives were altogether of a public nature.”

May 18. Rev. Samuel Miller, in New York, to Rev. Mr. Eliot of Boston, and deposited with Mr. Shaw. "In that letter I spoke of my interview with Mr. J. Q. Adams, who brought me a letter from you. He is a charming man. I wish much to enjoy the honor and pleasure of a more intimate acquaintance with him. Every succeeding session of Congress, and every increase of my knowledge of him, places him higher in my esteem. I hope you will never let him pass through New York without bringing me a letter from you. The An

thology for March I have just seen. The letter, to which the editors allude, I should have no doubt, without your information, came from Dr. Hobart. He is absolutely animated by a zeal on the subject of episcopacy, which may with propriety be called fanatical. The reviewers are severe; but if they

saw the whole ground as we see it, in this city, standing in the midst of the combatants, they would think themselves rather to have erred on the side of gentleness. I feel myself much flattered by the original review, and by the respectful manner in which I am treated in this note of the editors."

June 3. From the editors of the Medical Journal, of New York. They express their views of the duty which devolves on the conductors of periodical publications, as to care in using and crediting each other's articles.

August. Mr. Shaw, during this month, accompanied the Rev. Joseph S. Buckminster on a journey to Kennebec, particularly for the health of the latter.

August 18. Edward Little, of Newburyport, states that he is concerned in editing Ashe's Travels, from the London edition; but that his copy has lost a few pages, and he should be much obliged to Mr. Shaw for another volume, so as to supply the deficiency.

Oct. 11. From N. Lawrence, in Boston, to Rev. William Shepherd at Gateacre, near Liverpool. "It is the intention of this letter to introduce to you, Mr. Shaw of this city, a gentleman to whom the town of Boston is indebted for the establishment of an institution, having the same object in view, as that which has reflected so much credit upon Liverpool.

"Owing to the unremitting exertions of Mr. Shaw, the Boston Athenæum, though in its infancy, already possesses a library which would, both for its size and selection, do credit to a much older

establishment; and the constant additions it is receiving, promise to place it in a very high rank among the literary institutions of America.

"The proprietors of the Boston Athenæum have a very considerable fund; part of which they propose to apply to the erection of a building for the reception of their books and newspapers. As the active patron of the establishment, Mr. Shaw is anxious for a correspondence with one of the leading supporters of the parent institution, and I am confident that you will feel pleasure in answering any inquiries he may propose with regard to the minor regulations of our Athenæum, and to point out to him the best means for securing a regular and early supply of English publications. Mr. Shaw instructs me to say, that on his part he shall be happy to communicate any literary information relative to America, which may be interesting to you.

During the federal administration, Mr. Shaw held the situation of private secretary to the PresiIdent of the United States."

Oct. 13. From Paul Allen in Providence, R. I. "Observing in the last number of the Panoplist, a letter purporting to be from the pen of Pomare, King of Otaheiti, I was induced to believe that the handwriting of that person might be a present acceptable to the proprietors of the Athenæum. Mr. Cushing, a gentleman of respectable character in this town, and the person to whom the letter from Pomare was addressed, favored me with the enclosed specimen of Pomare's handwriting. It was an invitation to Mr. Cushing to come on shore for the