An address to the Committee of correspondence in Barbados. : Occasioned by a late letter from them to their agent in London. / By a North-American. ; [Two lines from Shakespeare].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickinson, John, 1732-1808.

Contributor:

Bradford, William, 1719-1791, bookseller.

Barbados. Committee of Correspondence.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765).

Great Britain.

Taxation.

Stamp Act (Great Britain : 1765).

Taxation--United States--Early works to 1800.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, vi, 18 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

irwo s-to n-em pi*T (3) 1766 (R)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia. : Printed and sold by William Bradford, at his book-store in Market-street, adjoining the London coffee-house, MDCCLXVI [1766]

Notes:

"A letter from the Committee of correspondence in Barbados, to their agent in London": p. ii-vi.

Attributed to John Dickinson by Evans.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴ D² (D2 blank).

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has author's presentation inscription, on verso of title page, which reads "This piece is presented to the Honorable the Speaker of the Assembly of Pennsylvania by the author as a mark not sufficiently expressive indeed of his Esteem for that very respectable Body and of his affection for a people, whose Honour most injuriously had died, he hath endeavored to vindicate". The speaker mentioned could be Joseph Fox or Joseph Galloway, 1731-1803.

Cited in:

Evans, 10283

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2209

Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 27

Sabin, 20037

ESTC W37093

OCLC:

2167838