Enclosure: Resolution by the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society, 30 October 1815
Enclosure
Resolution by the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society
American Philosophical Society
In Committee of History, the moral Sciences & general Literature.
Monday October 30th 1815.
Resolved: That the Corresponding Secretary1 be authorized to correspond with and invite [Coms from]2 such persons either in or out of the State, that3 may be capable and disposed to forward the views of the Committee, and that he communicate [the] Correspondence from time to time to the Committee.
Extract from the Minutes
Jn Vaughan |
Recording Secy P.T |
Tr (DLC); torn, with missing word supplied from MS; in an unidentified hand, signed by Vaughan. MS (PPAmP:
Archives, Minutes of the Historical and Literary Committee); lacking heading; in John Vaughan’s hand; with membership attendance listed as Caspar Wistar, Peter S. Du Ponceau, and Vaughan.1. In MS Vaughan here canceled: “P S Du Ponceau.”
2. Preceding two words, not in Tr, supplied from MS.
3. In MS Vaughan here canceled “from information recd.”
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