Letter from James Otis, Jr. to James Otis, Sr., and portrait print of James Otis Jr., 1743 June 17

Letter from Otis in Boston to his father, James Otis Sr. on June 17, 1743. In the short, half-page letter, Otis asks his father for money to pay for expenses relating to Commencement including the printing of theses, shoes, buckles, and any entertainment. He mentions that he will share entertainment expenses with his classmate Lothrop Russell.

Notebook of James Lovell, 1757-1760

Marbled paper-covered handwritten notebook of James Lovell. The volume contains three texts written in Latin, “Praecellentissime Domine,” dated 1757, an untitled text beginning, “Cogitanti mihi et superiorum revolti…” dated 1759, and Lovell’s funeral oration for Tutor Henry Flynt titled “Oratio funebris” dated 1760. The Latin texts are followed by blank pages and the volume ends with an untitled English text about orators that begins, “Ridiculous certainly is that Practice of some...” The last page of the text includes the marginal notes: “John Winthrop Esqr. Hollisian Professor” and, “For T.H. of Carolina.” There are verses attributed to the London Magazine written on the inside front cover.

Letter from James Winthrop to William Bentley, 1811 November 18

Two octavo-sized leaves containing a brief one-page handwritten letter from Winthrop to Bentley noting the transmission of a French book for Hannah Crowninshield (1789-1834), an artist and daughter of Bentley's neighbor.

Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper /

Includes idnex.

Bogue genealogy; descendants of John Bogue of East Haddam, Conn., and wife, Rebecca Walkley; also the North Carolina Bogues and miscellaneous Bogue records; ancestors of James Hubbard Bogue and wife, Polly Adelaide Phillips their royal lines,

Includes index.

The adventures of James Collier, first collector of the port of San Francisco,

"Two hundred and fifty copies ... printed."

Memorial of James Fenimore Cooper.

Edited by G.P. Putnam. cf. Sabin.

James Fenimore Cooper.

Mode of access: Internet.

Argument of James L. Petigru, Esq. : delivered before the Court of Appeals, at Charleston, on the constitutionality of an act of the Legislattre [sic], passed 19th December, 1833, entitled An act to provide for the military organization of this state.

Text in double columns.

Life of Captain James Cook.

Afterwards reprinted with title Narrative of the voyages round the world performed by Captain James Cook.

A new, improved, and authentic life of James Allan : the celebrated Northumberland piper, detailing his surprising adventures in various parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, including a complete description of the manners and customs of the Gipsy tribes /

Amer. Art. Assoc., catalog, 4-6 Feb. 1919 (Townsend sale) no. 560, describes as the 1st ed. with these ill.; only ed. cited in BM 238:106 and NUC pre-1956 591:538.

The poems of James Grahame, John Logan, and William Falconer. With lives of the authors and a portrait of Grahame.

Mode of access: Internet.

The works of James Fenimore Cooper.

Title vignettes.

Rejoinder to James Hamilton

Hamilton (2001) makes a number of comments on our paper (Harding and Pagan, 2002b). The objectives of this rejoinder are, firstly, to note the areas in which we agree; secondly, to define with greater clarity the areas in which we disagree; and, thirdly, to point to other papers, including a longer version of this response, where we have dealt with some of the issues that he raises. The core of our debate with him is whether one should use an algorithm with a specified set of rules for determining the turning points in economic activity or whether one should use a parametric model that features latent states. Hamilton begins his criticism by stating that there is a philosophical distinction between the two methods for dating cycles and concludes that the method we use “leaves vague and intuitive exactly what this algorithm is intended to measure”. Nothing is further from the truth. When seeking ways to decide on whether a turning point has occurred it is always useful to ask the question, what is a recession? Common usage suggests that it is a decline in the level of economic activity that lasts for some time. For this reason it has become standard to describe a recession as a decline in GDP that lasts for more than two quarters. Finding periods in which quarterly GDP declined for two periods is exactly what our approach does. What is vague about this?