RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 16 Jan. 1811 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosures: (1) Henry Banks, Sketches & Propositions, Recommending the Establishment of an Independent System of Banking, Permanent Public Roads, a New Mode for the Recovery of Interest on Private Loans, Changes at the Penitentiary, and a General System of Defence, with Some Observations Necessary to Illustrate These Several Topics (Richmond, 1811; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 3400). (2) Banks, Observations Designed to shew the propriety of establishing an Independent System of Banking, In Preference to Increasing the Capital of the Bank of Virginia, and of deriving public revenue therefrom (Richmond, 1811; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 3401). (3) prospectus by Bradford & Inskeep and by Moses Thomas, Philadelphia, Inskeep & Bradford, New York, and William McIlhenny, Boston, 20 Sept. 1810, for publication by subscription of an American edition of John Pinkerton’s Modern Atlas, quoting from Pinkerton’s prospectus on the accuracy, utility, beauty, and magnificence of the work, and promising that the work will be completed in about twenty numbers, one to be issued every two months and contain three maps; that it will be published on a wire-woven paper called Colombier (twenty-three by thirty-five inches) corresponding to the works of Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville; that the price of each number will be $4 plain and $5 colored, with a considerable increase to nonsubscribers; and that the last number will include a geographical memoir, reciting the character and merits of the chief authorities upon which each map is constructed (broadside in DLC; with a written notation by Prichard: “Subscribers will be received by William Prichard”). (4) prospectus by William Young Birch & Abraham Small, Philadelphia, for publication by subscription of Charles Coote, The history of modern Europe and a view of the progress of society from the Peace of Paris in 1763, to the Treaty of Amiens, in 1802, being a continuation of Dr. Russell’s history (London, 1803; American ed., Philadelphia, 1811), which states that it will be uniform in style with the five earlier volumes by William Russell (London, 1779–86; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 161; American ed., Philadelphia, 1802); that subscribers will pay $2.75 for a volume more than six-hundred pages long; and that subscriptions will be received in Philadelphia by the publishers (broadside in DLC: TJ Papers, 231:41475; undated; with a written notation by Prichard that he is also receiving subscriptions).