Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A letter to the inhabitants of the province of Quebec. Extract from the minutes of the Congress.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1749
0099.695 v.46
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcxs55mp31k
Publisher
Philadelphia : Printed by William and Thomas Bradford, October, 1774.
Language
English
Date Created
1774
Extent
[2], 37-50 p. 21 cm.
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 stamped on title page 'Franklin Institute Library' and 'Franklin Institute of the State of Penna.'
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC W15271
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Signed by Henry Middleton, president of the Congress, October 26, 1774.
"Cushing, Lee and Dickinson were appointed, October 21, a committee to prepare this letter, the draft of which, both by common acceptance and by the statement in Dickinson's 'Writings' (published in 1801, under his supervision), is referred to Dickinson's pen; yet John Adams (Diary in 'Works'. II., 392), on October 4 writes, 'General Lee came to my lodgings, and showed me address from the C. to the people of Canada, which he has'--or, eleven days before Dickinson was elected to the Congress, and eighteen days before the committee was appointed."--P. L. Ford, Some materials for a bibl. of the ...Continental congress, Boston, 1890. no. 7.
Though printed later and with a separate title, the "Letter" was intended to be a part of the "Extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental congress," Philadelphia, Printed by W. and T. Bradford, October 27th, 1774. (2 p. ., 12, 11, 36 p.)
WIT copy is no. 6 of a volume of pamphlets.

Discovery Information

Subject
Canada—Politics and government—1775-1783

Physical Characteristics

File Count
17

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
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