Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
March 1779
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 37v
Notes:
Du Simitière note: "Bound in gilt Paper & lettered in green morocco."
The donor, Robert Aitken (1734-1802), was a Philadelphia engraver, printer, and bookseller. His short-lived monthly, The Pennsylvania Magazine, for which Du Simitière provided a title page vignette, a map, and other drawings that were engraved, employed Thomas Paine as an editor.
Du Simitière also noted that Charles Thomson (1729-1824), secretary of Congress, gave him the Journals for 1777 and 1778.
Title Information:
The Journals of Congress
