Thomas Jefferson Papers

Augustus B. Woodward to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1814

From Augustus B. Woodward

Philadelphia, August 3. 1814.

Mr Woodward has the honor to transmit a small Philadelphia publication, which contains among other singular cases the case and speech of Eugene Aram; and to present his respects.—

RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 12 Aug. 1814 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: The Criminal Recorder: or, An Awful Beacon to the Rising Generation of Both Sexes, Erected by the Arm of Justice to Persuade Them from the Dreadful Miseries of Guilt, 3d American ed. (Philadelphia, 1812; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 2096; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 10 [no. 597]).

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