Joseph Priestley

From letters by Thomas Jefferson

21 March 1801 to Joseph Priestley

" It is with heartfelt satisfaction that in the first moments of my public action, I can hail you with welcome to our land, tender you the homage of its respect and esteem [and] cover you under those laws which were made for the wise and good like you. "   (10:228-29)

22 August 1813 to John Adams

"I have read Priestley's books over and over again ; and I rest on them . . . as the basis of my own faith."   (13:352)

22 July 1822 to Benjamin Waterhouse.

" I an not aware of the peculiar resistance to Unitarianism, which you ascribe to Pennsylvania. When I lived in Philadelphia there was a respectable congregation of that sect, with a meetinghouse and regular service which I attended, and in which Doctor Priestley officiated to numerous audiences. "   (15:391-2)

References given to The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (ed. Lipscomb and Bergh), Washington, 1903.
per THE RELIGION OF THOMAS JEFFERSON by Henry Wilder Foote, 1947,
Boston : Beacon Press 1960.

Bibliographic

Author Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Title The history and present state of electricity [microform] : with original experiments / by Joseph Priestley. Publisher London : Printed for J. Dodsley, J. Johnson, B. Davenport, and T. Cadell, 1767. Description xxxi, 736 p., [7] folded leaves of plates : ill ; 28 cm.

Author Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Title The history and present state of electricity, with original experiments, by Joseph Priestley. Edition 2d ed., cor. and enl. ... Publisher London, J. Dodsley [etc.] 1769. Description 2 p. l., xxxii, 712, iii, [10] p. VIII pl. 27 cm. Note Bibliography: iii p. at end.

Author Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Title Histoire de l'�lectricit� / traduite de l'anglois de Joseph Priestley, avec des notes critiques. Ouvrage enrichi de figures en tailledouce. Publisher A Paris : Chez Herissant, 1771. Description 3 v. : fold. plates ; 18 cm. Note Each volume has bookplate in front : "Ex libris... Park Benjamin."

Author Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 Title Geschichte und gegenw�rtiger Zustand der Elektricit�t : nebst eigenth�mlichen Versuchen. Nach der zweyten vermehrten und verbesserten Ausgabe aus dem Englischen �bersetzt und mit Anmerkungen begleitet / von Johann Georg Kr�nitz Publisher Berlin : Gottlieb August Lange, 1772 Description xxxii, 517 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm Language German

Author Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804. Title The history and present state of electricity, with original experiments / by Joseph Priestley. Edition 3d ed., corr. and enl. Publisher London : Printed for C. Bathurst, and T. Lowndes, J. Rivington, and J. Johnson, etc., 1775. Description 2 v. : 8 fold. plates ; 22 cm. Note References: Crook S/483, 484. Note Bibliography: v. 2, p. [i]-iv at end.