" Let every sluice of knowledge be open'd and set a flowing"
Subtitle: a tribute to Philip May Hamer on the completion of ten years as executive director the National Historical Publications Commission
By: by a few of the many who have benefited from his labors.
Contributors: Hamer, Philip May, 1891-
Published: 1960
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: A word of gratitude.; title: A few words on form and substance.; title: In praise of a useful public servant.; title: "This system approaching so near to perfection": Benjamin Franklin's address to the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787.; title: "Let every sluice of knowledge be open'd and set a flowing": John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, August 7, 1805.; title: "Give them their freedom with their muskets": Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, March 14, 1779.; title: "While the art of printing is left to us, science can never be retrograde": Thomas Jefferson to William Green Munford, June 18, 1799.; title: "There is no bill rights": Elder John Leland's "Objections to the Foederal Constitution," 1788.; title: "My life has been so much a public one": James Madison to James K. Paulding, April 1831.; title: "Aspirations beyond the temper of the age": John Quincy Adams' speech at the ground-breaking ceremonies of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, July 4, 1828.; title: Appendix: list of documentary publications with their sponsors, editors, and publishers, 1950-1960.