"Let every sluice of knowledge be open'd and set a flowing"; a tribute to Philip May Hamer on the completion of ten years as executive director the National Historical Publications Commission / by a few of the many who have benefited from his labors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hamer, Philip M. (Philip May), 1891-1971.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 volume (40 leaves) : facsimiles ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, [publisher not identified], 1960.

Contents:

A word of gratitude.

A few words on form and substance.

In praise of a useful public servant.

"This system approaching so near to perfection": Benjamin Franklin's address to the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787.

"Let every sluice of knowledge be open'd and set a flowing": John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, August 7, 1805.

"Give them their freedom with their muskets": Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, March 14, 1779.

"While the art of printing is left to us, science can never be retrograde": Thomas Jefferson to William Green Munford, June 18, 1799.

"There is no bill rights": Elder John Leland's "Objections to the Foederal Constitution," 1788.

"My life has been so much a public one": James Madison to James K. Paulding, April 1831.

"Aspirations beyond the temper of the age": John Quincy Adams' speech at the ground-breaking ceremonies of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, July 4, 1828.

Appendix: list of documentary publications with their sponsors, editors, and publishers, 1950-1960.

OCLC:

5758943