1. Blatchly probably enclosed a copy of Noah Worcester’s Solemn Review of the Custom of War; Showing, That War Is the Effect of Popular Delusion, and Proposing a Remedy (New York, 1815; Shaw and Shoemaker description begins R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819 (22 vols.; New York, 1958–66). description ends 36631).

2. Cornelius Camden Blatchly (b. 1773), a native of Mendham, New Jersey, and graduate of the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, was among the earliest theorists of socialism in the United States. He made religious and secular arguments against economic injustice in Some Causes of Popular Poverty, Derived from the Enriching Nature of Interests, Rents, Duties, Inheritances, and Church Establishments,…, published as an appendix to Thomas Branagan’s Pleasures of Contemplation,… (Philadelphia, 1817; Shaw and Shoemaker description begins R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819 (22 vols.; New York, 1958–66). description ends 40313); and, in An Essay on Common Wealths (New York, 1822; Shoemaker description begins Richard H. Shoemaker, comp., A Checklist of American Imprints for 1820–1829 (11 vols.; New York, 1964–72). description ends 8634), advocated the establishment of “pure and perfect communities” to overcome the evils associated with private property (David Harris, Socialist Origins in the United States: American Forerunners of Marx, 1817–1832 [Assen, Netherlands, 1966], 10–19; Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City & the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788–1850 [New York, 1984], 158–61).