Old South Leaflets

These leaflets are reprints of important original papers, accompanied by useful historical and bibliographical notes; they consist on an average of sixteen pages. The Old South Work was founded by Mrs. Mary Hemenway, and was maintained by her and by provision of her will. It has then taken over by the Old South Association with a generous contribution from the Hemenway Trustees. There are two hundred and twelve of these leaflets. The original two hundred leaflets were edited by Edwin D. Mead; Nos. 201 and 205 by Katharine P. Loring; 202 by George G. Wolkins; 203 and 204 by John C.S. Andrew; 206 by C. Park Pressey; 207, 208, and 210-12 by S.E. Morison; 213 by L.V. Roth.

• 1. The Constitution of the United States
• 2. The Articles of Confederation
• 3. The Declaration of Independence
• 4. Washington's Farewell Address
• 5. Magna Charta
• 6. Vane's [dq]Healing Question[dq]
• 7. Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1629
• 8. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1836
• 9. Franklin's Plan of Union, 1754.
• 10. Washington's Inaugurals.
• 11. Lincoln's Inaugurals and Emancipation Proclamation
• 12. The Federalist, Nos. 1 and 2
• 13. The Ordinance of 1757
• 14. The Constitution of Ohio
• 15. Washington's Circular Letter, to the Governors of the States, 1783.
• 16. Washington's Letter to Benjamin Harrison, 1784
• 17. Verrazzano's Voyage
• 18. The Swiss Constitution 1S74
• 19. The Bill of Rights, 1689
• 20. Coronado's Letter to Mendoza, 1540
• 21. Rev. John Eliot's Narrative, 1671.
• 22. Wheelock's Narrative, 1762.
• 23. The Petition of Right. 1628
• 24. The Grand Remonstrance. 1641
• 25. The Scottish National Covenant, 1638
• 26. The Agreement of the People, 1648-9
• 27. The Instrument of Government, 1653.
• 28. Cromwell's First Speech, 1653.
• 29. The Discovery of America, from the Life of Columbus by his Son, Ferdinand Columbus.
• 30. Strabo's Introduction to Geography
• 31. The Voyages to Vinland, from thhe [dq]Flatey Book[dq]
• 32. Marco Polo's Account of Japan and Java. Fourteenth Century
• 33. Columbus's Letter to Gabriel Sanchez, describing the First Voyage AND Discovery
• 34. Amerigo Vespucci's Account of his First Voyage
• 35. Cortes's Account of the City of Mexico
• 36. The Death of De Soto, from the [dq]Narrative of a Gentleman of Elvas[dq]
• 37. Early Notices of the Voyages OF the Cabots
• 38. Henry Lee's Funeral Oration on Washington
• 39. De Vaca's Account of his Journey TO New Mexico, 1535
• 40. Manasseh Cutler's Description of Ohio, 1787.
• 41. Washington's Journal of his Tour TO the Ohio, 1770
• 42. Garfield's Address on the Northwest Territory and the Western Reserve, 1873
• 43. George Rogers Clark's Account of the Capture of Vincennes, 1779
• 44. Jefferson's Life of Captain Meriwether Lewis
• 45. Fremont's Account of his Ascent of Fremont's Peak
• 46. Father Marquette at Chicago, 1673
• 47. Washington's Account of the Army at Cambridge, 1775
• 48. Bradford's Memoir of Elder Brewster
• 49. Bradford's First Dialogue
• 50. Winthrop's [dq]Conclusions for the Plantation in New England[dq]
• 51. [dq]New England's First Fruits[dq], 1643. (Harvard College)
• 52. John Eliot's [dq]Indian Grammar Begun[dq]
• 53. John Cotton's [dq]God's Promise to his Plantation[dq]
• 54. Letters of Roger Williams to Winthrop
• 55. Thomas Hooker's [dq]Way of the Churches of New England[dq]
• 56. The Monroe Doctrine, 1823
• 57. The English Bible. From Various Versions
• 58. Letters of Hooper to Bullinger
• 59. Sir John Eliot's [dq]Apologie for Socrates[dq]
• 60. Ship-money Papers
• 61. Pym's Speech against Strafford
• 62. Cromwell's Second Speech
• 63. A Free Commonwealth, by John Milton
• 64. Sir Henry Vane's Defence, 1662
• 65. Washington's Addresses to. the Churches
• 66. Winthrop's [dq]Little Speech[dq] on Liberty
• 67. The Bostonian Ebenezer, by Cotton Mather
• 68. The Destruction of the Tea, by Governor Thomas Hutchinson
• 69. Description of the New Netherlands, by Adrian Van der Donck
• 70. Debate on the Suffrage in the Constitutional Convention, 1787
• 71. Columbus's Memorial to Ferdinand and Isabella
• 72. The Dutch Declaration of Independence, 1581
• 73. The Siege of Quebec. (Capt. Knox)
• 74. Hamilton's Report on the Coinage
• 75. William Penn's Plan for the Peace of Europe
• 76. Washington's Words on a National University
• 77. Cotton Mather's Lives of Bradford and Winthrop.
• 78. The First Number of the Liberator
• 79. Wendell Phillips's Eulogy of Garrison
• 80. Theodore Parker's Address on the Dangers from Slavery
• 81. Whittier's Account of the Anti-Slavery Convention of 1833
• 82. Mrs. Stowe's Story of [dq]Uncle Tom's Cabin[dq]
• 83. Sumner's Speech on the Crime against Kansas
• 84. The Words of John Brown
• 85. The First Lincoln and Douglas Debate
• 86. Washington's Capture of Boston
• 87. Morton's Manners and Customs of the Indians, 1637
• 88. Selections from Hubbard's [dq]Narrative[dq] of King Philip's War, 1677
• 89. Founding of St. Augustine, 1565 Grajales
• 90. Amerigo Vespucci's Account of his Third Voyage
• 91. Founding of Quebec. Champlain
• 92. First Voyage to Roanoke, 1584
• 93. Settlement of Londonderry, N.H.
• 94. Discovery of the Hudson. Juet.
• 95. Pastorius's Description of Pennsylvania, 1700
• 96. Acrelius's Founding of New Sweden
• 97. Lafayette in the American Revolution. From his Memoirs.
• 98. Letters of Washington and Lafayette
• 99. Washington's Letters on the Constitution
• 100. Robert Browne's [dq]Reformation without Tarrying for Any[dq]
• 101. Grotius's [dq]Rights of War and Peace[dq], the Introduction
• 102. Columbus in Cuba
• 103. John Adams's Inaugural
• 104. Jefferson's Inaugurals
• 105. An Account of Louisiana, 1803
• 106. Calhoun's Government of the United States
• 107. Lincoln's Cooper Institute Address
• 108. The Invention of the Steamboat
• 109. Horace Mann's Ground of the Free School System
• 110. The Romance of New England History, by Rufus Choate
• 111. Kossuth's First Speech in Faneuil Hall
• 112. King Alfred's Description of Europe
• 113. Augustine in England. Bede
• 114. The Hague Arbitration Treaty
• 115. John Cabot's Discovery of North America. Contemporary Despatches
• 116. Sir Francis Drake on the California Coast
• 117. Frobisher's First Voyage
• 118. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Expedition to Newfoundland, 1583. Haies
• 119. Raleigh's First Roanoke Colony, Ralph Lane's Account
• 120. Gosnold's Settlement at Cuttyhunk, Archer's Account
• 121. Captain John Smith's Description OF New England
• 122. Richard Hakluyt. [dq]England's Title to North America[dq], from [dq]Discourses Concerning Western Planting[dq]
• 123. Dante's Monarchia, Selection
• 124. More's Utopia, Selection
• 125. The Sermon on the Mount (Wyclif's Translation)
• 126. Brissot's Boston in 1788
• 127. The Ordinance of 1784
• 128. The Cession of Louisiana, Official Papers
• 129. Monroe's Messages on Florida
• 130. The Fall of the Alamo. Potter
• 131. The Discovery of the Columbia River. Porter
• 132. Sumner's Report on the War with Mexico
• 133. Seward's Address on Alaska
• 134. William Emerson's Fourth of July Oration, 1802
• 135. The Schools of Massachusetts in 1824. James G. Carter
• 136. Boston at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century. Pres. Dwight
• 137. First Number of the [dq]Dial[dq], 1840
• 138. Ireland's Recollections of Emerson
• 139. The American Lyceum, 1829
• 140. Samuel Hoar's Account of his Expulsion from Charleston, 1844
• 141. William Ellery Channing's Essay on a National Literature
• 142. The Words of John Robinson
• 143. John Eliot's [dq]Daybreak of the Gospel among the Indians[dq]
• 144. Horace Mann's [dq]Education and Prosperity[dq]
• 145. Mary Lyon's Prospectus of Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, 1835
• 146. Elihu Burritt's [dq]Congress of Nations[dq], 1848.
• 147. Autobiography of Peter Cooper
• 148. Memorial to Legislature of Massachusetts, 1843. Dorothea Dix
• 149. The Founding of Hampton Institute. Gen. S.C. Armstrong
• 150. Old Jersey, by George E. Waring, Jr
• 151. Commodore Perry's Landing in Japan, 1853, Official Report
• 152. Commodore Paul Jones's Account of the Battle between the [dq]Bon Homme Richard[dq] and the [dq]Serapis[dq]
• 153. Bradford's [dq]Voyage of the Mayflower[dq]
• 154. John White's Planting of Colonies in New England
• 155. Wheeler's Narrative of the Fight with the Indians at Brookfield, 1675-156.156. The Lexington Town Meetings from 1765 to 1775
• 157. The Lowell Offering, October, 1845.
• 158. Governor Andrew's Address to the Legislature, May, 1861
• 159. Selections from the Poems of Anne Bradstreet
• 160. Memorials of the First Graduates OF Harvard College. Farmer
• 161. Franklin's Boyhood in Boston, from his Autobiography
• 162. Franklin on War and Peace
• 163. Franklin's Plan for Western Colonies, 1754
• 164. The Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641
• 165. John Wise on Government, 1717
• 166. The Invention of Ships, by Sir Walter Raleigh
• 167. Captain John Smith's Account of the Settlement of Jamestown
• 168. De Vries's Account of New Netherland in 1640
• 169. The New England Confederation, 1643
• 170. Relation of Lord Baltimore's Plantation in Maryland, 1634
• 171. William Penn's Description of Pennsylvania, 1683
• 172. The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, 1669
• 173. Samuel Adams on the Rights of the Colonists, 1772
• 174. The Discovery of Pike's Peak. From Pike's Journal
• 175. The Longfellow Memorial
• 176. The Founding of Boston. Edward Johnson
• 177. Cotton Mather's Tribute to Ezekiel Cheever
• 178. Anne Hutchinson in Massachusetts, from Hutchinson's History.
• 179. John Adams's Tribute to James Otis, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock
• 180. Garrison's First Anti-slavery Address in Boston, 1829
• 181. Thomas Hughes on the Heroes of the American Civil War
• 182. Josiah Quincy's Farewell Address as Mayor of Boston, 1829
• 183. Wendell Phillips's Address on the Old South Meeting-house, 1876
• 184. Mather's History of Harvard College
• 185. Mather's Biographies of Henry Dunster and Charles Chauncy
• 186. Political Union of the United States, by Pelatiah Webster
• 187. Washington's Expedition to the French on the Ohio, 1753
• 188. Milton's Treatise on Education
• 189. Lincoln's Message to Congress, July 4, 1861
• 190. Gladstone's Kin beyond Sea.
• 191. R.C. Winthrop's Fourth of July Oration, 1876
• 192. Dr. Holmes's Fourth of July Oration, 1863
• 193. Gladstone's Essay on Tennyson
• 194. The Education of Darwin, from his Autobiography
• 195. R.C. Winthrop's Address on Music in New England
• 196. The Reforming of Spelling. by Noah Webster
• 197. Plan for the Union or the American States. by Noah Webster
• 198. The History of the United States. From Noah Webster's [dq]Reading Book[dq]. 1790
• 199. Lord Chatham's Speeches on American Revolution
• 200. Edmund Burke. Conciliation with America. 1775
• 201. Certain Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes Connected with the Old South
• 202. History of The Old South Meeting-House and Freedom. Illustrated.
• 203. Proceedings of the Hartford Convention
• 204. Perry's Account of the Battle of Lake Erie
• 205. Privateers and Militia, with facsimile of a Letter of Marque
• 206. The Constitution of Massachusetts with Amendments to 1915
• 207. The [dq]Humble Request[dq] and Winthrop's [dq]Modell of Christian Charity[dq], 1630
• 208. Locke's Second Treatise of Government, 1691. (Selections)
• 209. The Massachusetts Constituion of 1778, with List of All Constitutional Amendments Proposed in Massachusetts between 1820 and 1917
• 210. William Knox on American Taxation, 1769. (Selections)
• 211. J.Q. Adams and Others on the Peace of Ghent, 1814
• 212. The Treaty of Ghent, and Negotiations that Followed, 1814-18
• 213. The Triumph of the Union, by Charles de Montalembert, 1865