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Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 8 September 19, 1777 - January 31, 1778
Elbridge Gerry to Thomas Wharton
Dear Sir York in Pennsylvania Novr 8. 1777 The following Books are much wanted by some Gentlemen of Congress, & are not to be procured in this Place; if they are to be found in the Pennsylvania Library, which We are informed is removed by Order of your Excellency to Lancaster, I shall be much obliged to You for the Loan thereof being with respect your Excellency’s very huml sert,(1) E Gerry
Vattell’s Law of Nations
Grotius
Puffendorf (2)
RC (PHi). Addressed: “His Excellency Thomas Wharton Esqr. Lancaster.”
1 In his November 11 response Wharton informed Gerry that “the Library you Speak of was not removed, it still remains in the City for the edification of Tories.”
Wharton added that there was a library in Lancaster that might be willing to lend books to members of Congress. Gerry Papers, DLC.
Before Wharton responded, Daniel Roberdeau sent a request for the same works to Wharton on November 10. “A Committee of Congress have occasion of the under mentioned Law Books,” Roberdeau explained, “which one of them sais were in the Library belonging to the State in Philada. Therefore I am desired to apply to you for the immediate Loan of them, and that they may be sent by express, if a good Opportunity does not very soon offer. If the books of the State were not brought to Lancaster you are requested to borrow these books of some Gentleman there and forward them.” Continental Congress Miscellany, DLC; and Pa. Archives, 1st ser. 5:757.
2 Emmerich de Vattel, The Law of Nations or Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sovereignty; Hugo Grotius, On the Law of War and Peace; and Samuel Pufendorf, of the Law of Nature and Nations.
Page 243
NOVEMBER 8, 1777
use of the word subjects..
Note 1: 1 The original added: “and, in fine, to admit you into the full enjoyment of all the rights, liberties, privileges and immunities of free and natural born subjects of these States.”] 409
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