by [Thomas Harding Ellis]
10 pamphlets from the library of Thomas Harding Ellis of Campbell County, Virginina; in half calf over marbled boards, with loss to the bottom corner of the rear board; sometime president of the James River and Kanawha Company, joined the Virginia Colonization Society, Treasurer; Pres. of the Hollywood Cemetery Company; childhood friend of Edgar Allan Poe. 1. The War on the Bank of the United States [Key and Biddle, 1834] 155 pages. 2. Speech of John Thompson Brown [Thomas Witt, 1833] 42 pages. 3. The City Hall Reporter and New York Law Magazine. Memoir of Thomas Addis Emmet [1833]; 129-192, 63 pages.4. Letter of William T. Barry, Postmaster General, to the House of Representatives [Blair and Rives, 1835], 30 pages. 5. Joseph Hulbert Nichols. Discourse on Genius. Delivered in the Hall of Delegates, Richmond, Virginia. ...On occasion on the anniversary of the Richmond Young Mens Society [Peter Hill, 1833]; 29 pages. 6. Virgil Maxcy. Discourse Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Brown University. Delivered September Fourth, 1833. [Lilly Wait, Colman, and Holden; 1833]; 31 pages.~7. John Quincy Adams. An Oration Addressed to the Citizens of the Town of Quincy, on the Fourth of July, 1831, the Fifty-fifth Anniversary of the Independence of the United States of America. [Richardson, Lord and Holbrook; 1831] 40 pages. 8. [A Virginian] [J. B. Harrison]. Review of the Slave Question, Extracted from the American Quarterly Review, Dec.. 1832; Based on the Speech of Thomas Marshall of Fauquier; with particular reference to Virginia [T. W. Whiate; 1833]. 45 pages; 9. Review of Pamphlets on Slavery and Colonization. {Maltby; 1833]. 24 pages. 10. Proceedings of a Meeting Held at Carlyle, Ill, 1833, Public Lands; [Extra, Illinois Advocate, 1833]. Bottom corner damaged, with minor loss to the text.~~.
(Inventory #: 299121)