DESCRIPTION OF PLATES

FRONTISPIECE

This hand tinted collotype reproduction of a portrait of William Goddard in
the possession of Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin of Providence was made possible
through her generosity. The artist is unknown.

PLATE II, facing page 12

Enlarged from a picture of Mary Katherine Goddard which was pasted on the
cover of her almanac for 1783 and is now in the possession of Mrs. C.
Oliver Iselin, with whose permission it is reproduced for the first time.
No other picture of Mary Katherine Goddard is known.

PLATE III, page 13

Reproduced by permission from the original in the Rhode Island Historical
Society. Mary Katherine Goddard was postmistress of Baltimore from

1775 to 1789

PLATE IV, page 17

The rival almanacs of brother and sister are reproduced by permission from the
copies belonging to the Maryland Historical Society.

PLATE V, facing page 20

This steel engraving of Eleazer Oswald was made by Albert Rosenthal in 1887
for use in Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution. The plate is used
with the kind permission of the artist, now living in New York, and of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

FIGURE VI, page 24

Announcement of partnership of Goddard and Oswald, reproduced from the
Maryland Journal by courtesy of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

PLATE VII, page 40

Title page of the London edition of Memoirs of the Late Charles Lee, reproduced
by courtesy of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

FIGURE VIII, page 43

The announcement of Edward Crocodile's Improvement on Chesterfield is an
excellent example of Goddard's satirical skill. Reproduced from Maryland
Journal by courtesy of the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

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