Bound and labled "Mss Lecturs, Joseph Hopkinson" filled with original manuscripts written by Joseph Hopkinson (1770 - 1842) himself. Included are --- "The Obituary Notice of Chief Justice Marshall" --- "Gentlemen of the (?) Society" --- "Lecture on Common Sense --- "Lecture on Dreaming, Athenian Institute" --- "Address...to...Rutgers College" --- "Lecture delivered to the Pennsylvania Literary Institute" --- "Lecture delivered to the Mercantile Library Company on the False Estimates of Morality in Mercantile Transactions" --- "Lecture on the character of the Grecian and Roman People" --- "Civilization by Conquest with a Notice of the late Invasion of Algiers" --- Dates range from 1837 through 1841. Sanderson, in his "Life of the Signers," referring to the impeachment proceedings against Judge Samuel Chase, said : "The speech of Mr. Hopkinson, then a very young man, has not been exceeded as a specimen of powerful and brilliant eloquence, in the forensic oratory of the country." From the Francis Hopkinson Family Archives