The bill, permitting the Jews to be naturalized by Parliament, having been misrepresented in the London Gazetteer of Friday the 18th May : and probably having never been read either by the author of that paper, or by several others who have since signed a petition, which that paper was calculated to support : to remove those false impressions, the following short, but true, state of facts is submitted to the consideration of the public.

After nearly 60 years of collecting, Sid Lapidus ’59 has presented to the Library more than 2700 volumes representing the fruits of his enthusiasm. Broadly conceived, the collection charts the definition and re-definiton of rights and liberties endemic to Western political traditions. The main focus is texts and documents relating to the American Revolution, its run-up dating back to the Commonwealth men, and coming down to documents of the early Federal government.