THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY VOLUME LXI THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA 1300 LOCUST STREET, PHILADELPHIA 1937
CONTENTS ARTICLES Page American Democracy and European Interpreters William E. Lingelbach 1 Some Unpublished Correspondence of John Adams and Richard Rush, 1811-1822. II, III Edited by J. H. Powell 26, 137 William Bingham, Agent of the Continental Congress in Martinique Margaret L. Brown 54 The Attack on the Judiciary in Pennsylvania, 1800-1810 Elizabeth K. Henderson 113 Business in Philadelphia During the British Occupation Willard O. Mishoff 165 The End of the Penn's Claim to Delaware: Some Forgotten Lawsuits Richard S. Rodney 182 Reed and Forde: Merchant Adventurers of Philadelphia Arthur P. Whitaker 237 New Light on the First Bank of the United States James O. Wettereau 263 Mr. and Mrs. William Bingham of Philadelphia Margaret L. Brown 286 Samuel Keimer C. Lennart Carlson 357 William Bingham, Eighteenth Century Magnate Margaret L. Brown 387 The Dynamics of American Journalism from 1787 to 1865 Elwyn Burns Robinson 435 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS 88, 204, 325, 446 J. E. Pomfret, Edward Byllynge's Proposed Gift of Land to Indigent Friends; E. Douglas Branch, An Unpublished Washington Document from the Bouquet Papers; J. E. Pomfret, Thomas Budd's "True and Perfect Account" of Byllynge's Proprieties in West New Jersey; Philip S. Klein, Memoirs of a Senator from Pennsylvania: Jonathan Roberts, 1771-1854. BOOK REVIEWS 93, 214, 332, 475 SOCIETY NEWS AND ACCESSIONS 103, 227, 349, 484 iii
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