Enclosure: Prospectus for Archæologia Americana. Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society, [before 7 April 1822], enclosure no. 2 in American Antiquarian Society to Thomas Jefferson, [received 7 April 1822]
Enclosure II
Prospectus for Archæologia Americana. Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society
[before 7 Apr. 1822]
PROPOSAL
for
CONTINUING THE PUBLICATION
of the
Transactions and Collections
of the
American Antiquarian Society.
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THE work will be commenced as soon as sufficient encouragement is obtained, and continued at indefinite periods, as materials shall be collected.
It will be published in numbers, of such a size as may be conveniently formed into volumes corresponding with that already published.
The price will be at the rate of Three Dollars for 400 pages, including Engravings.
The Subscribers agree to receive a[nd] p[ay] for the number of copies set against their names respectively.
Printed circular (DLC: TJ Papers, 221:39437); mutilated at seal, with missing text supplied from copy printed in American Antiquarian Society, Proceedings, new ser., 15 (1902–03): 185–6; undated; with TJ’s endorsement of covering letter on verso.
The second volume of Archæologia Americana. Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society did not appear until 1836.