On one of the fly leaves is recorded the following, in the handwriting of Gen Pierre Van Cortlandt: -- " Pierre Van Cortlandt's ejus Liber, March 1st, i739-40."a The Negro Plot, by the Recorder of New York, entitled, "A Journal of the detection of the Conspiracy, New York, printed by James Parker, 1744. A copy of this work brought $240 at Manzie's sale. This copy was once the property of the Hon. William P. Smith; sold by him to William Livingston with MSS. Notes, by Smith, "New England Judged," 1703; "Funeral Oration" on Washington by Major Michael Gabriel Houdin, with a portrait of the author, 1800. Among the autographs is the poetical effusion of the wife of his excellency President James Madison, addressed to Mr. Pierre Van Cortlandt, Junr: --

" Happy the man, and he alone, Who, master of himself can say, To-day at least hath heen my own, For I have clearly lived to-day." -- D. P. Madison.

Next occurs a letter from Gen. Lafayette to Charles King, Esq.

La Grange, September 28, 1832.

This letter my dear sir, will be delivered by Mr. Fiorelli, a young Italian sculptor, a refugee patriot, nephew to the gentleman whom I introduced to you in 1824. I recommend him to your good ad\rice, and beg you to accept the best wishes and regards of your obliged and affectionate friend, Lafayette.

There is also an original letter from Gen. Washington, dated Mount Vernon, April 3d, 1797, to Mrs. Clinton, and likewise, one from Mrs. Washington to the same. The following memorandum occurs in an old almanac of 1783, in the hand-writing of Lieut. Governor Pierre Van Cortlandt : --