Thomas Jefferson Papers

Joseph Bartlett: Prospectus for autobiography, 7 Jan. 1824, 7 January 1824

Tempora mutantur.”

PROSPECTUS.


THE SUBSCRIBER PROPOSES TO PUBLISH

HIS ADVENTUROUS AND CHEQUERED LIFE,

CONTAINING HIS TRAVELS IN EUROPE; AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF

FOX, PITT, AND OTHER GREAT MEN.

Also his Life, from the time he lived on the Pilgrims’ Rock, in Old Plymouth to the present date,

including Biographical Sketches of the first men in our country :—Such as

JUDGE PARSONS, FISHER AMES, SAMUEL DEXTER, JUDGE LOWELL,

INCLUDING, MANY GREAT CHARACTERS OF THE PRESENT DAY, NOW ALIVE.

The Author “will naught extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.”

“Most to him shall memory prove a curse,
“Who feels capricious fortune’s hard reverse.”

CONDITIONS.

I. It will contain two volumes in octavo, printed on excellent paper.
II. At three dollars, for two volumes.
III. Will be put to press as soon as the subscription will authorize it.

JOSEPH BARTLETT.

SUBSCRIBERS’ NAMES. RESIDENCE. NO. OF COPIES.

DLC.

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