Letters and legal opinion, 1798-1823

Legal opinion on an equity case (1798). Four letters to an unnamed correspondent (1801) regarding a shipment of papers; Joseph Hopkinson, member of Congress (1817) regarding a judiciary bill; a note (1818) to the cashier of the Bank of Columbia; and to Charles T. Mercer (1823) regarding property in Loudoun County, Virginia. Folder also contains newspaper clippings (ca. 1830-1842) regarding Washington's life and career, including one taken from the Journal of Law.

Report of cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals of Virginia. [1790-1796]

Dedication "To Edmund Pendleton, esquire, president of the Court of appeals ...": v.1, p. [iii]

Lobbying defined and observed

The critical and most obvious component of lobbying is the interaction an entity has with government. The executive, parliament and bureaucracy are the key players in the field. On the opposing side, to extend a sporting analogy, are the lobbyists – who are identified or labelled, singularly or plurally, by a variety of names: pressure groups, policy consultants, tariff consultants, public relations consultants, interest groups, special interest groups, industrial and professional associations, government relations managers, public affairs managers and Lloyd’s qualified term, the ‘political lobbyist’ .
All these nomenclatures require further explanation – some are used interchangeably, others are now an historical term only, some fall from the common language only to reappear at a later date. Of all, the oldest and most widely recognised is lobbyist and lobbying. Lloyd (1989) states that the term ‘lobby agent’ was first used in Westminster in the mid-17th century. In the United States Schriftgiesser (1951) writes that the famous American journalist H L Mencken, the Sage of Baltimore, traced the first use of the word lobby, as we currently understand it, to Washington DC in 1829. At that time the term lobby-agent was in use but it was shortened, by journalists, to lobbyist by 1832.
It has been suggested that the concept of lobbying – of seeking influence among the powerful – is as old as government e itself. Lloyd (1989) cites examples of lobbying from the Old and New testaments – the most famous pressure group being those who petitioned Pontius Pilate to crucify Jesus Christ!
In the US the activities of lobbying were recognised before the term was coined when, according to Schriftgeisser (1951), ‘a little gang of painted –up merchants (who) pushed British tea into the salt water of Boston harbor’ (p4).
So the pedigree of lobbying activities is long and colourful. As the western form of parliamentary democracy has evolved and expanded among nations it seems that lobbying has been ever present on this journey. It is by its activities, its parts, that we can define and recognise lobbying most clearly and view the changes.

A journey from Madras through the countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar : performed under the orders of the most noble the Marquis Wellesley, governor general of India, for the express purpose of investigating the state of agriculture, arts, and commerce ... in the dominions of the rajah of Mysore, and the countries acquired by the Honorable East India Company ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

A chronicle of the conquest of Granada /

First American edition.

The life of the late Reverend and learned Dr. Cotton Mather, of Boston, (New England.) ...

"Revised by the Committee of publication, Am. S. S. U."

Résponse de Fauche-Borel a monsieur Riffé, substitut de monsieur le procureur du roi, et en cette qualité ayant porté la parole dans l'affaire contre Perlet; suivie du jugement rendu contre ce dernier.

Mode of access: Internet.

Prodromus floræ Nepalensis sive Enumeratio vegetabilium quæ in itinere per Nepaliam proprie dictam et regiones conterminas, ann. 1802- 1803 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Epistola Judae Graece commentario critico et annotatione perpetua .

Mode of access: Internet.

Handbuch der Einleitung in die Schriften des Neuen Testamentes /

Includes bibliographic references.

Dya-Na-Sore, oder, Die Wanderer.

Some illlustrations by: V. Kininger, designer, Cl. Kohl, engraver, and K. Ponheimer, engraver.

A chronicle of the conquest of Granada.

First edition.

Geneaolgies of the Hindus, extracted from their sacred writings; with an introduction and alphabetical index.

Mode of access: Internet.

Convito de Dante Alighieri, ridotto a lezione migliore.

Ed. by G. G. Trivulzio, V. Monti and G. A. Maggi.