Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania, to the inhabitants of the British Colonies.
Call Number
1081.298.3
Lapidus 5.1692
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc0z709665d
Publisher
Boston, Edes & Gill, 1768.
Language
English
Date Created
1768
Extent
80 p. ; 8⁰.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC W6397
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Signatures: A-K⁴.
"Boston, March 28, 1768. At an adjournment of the meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of this town, the following letter was reported by the committee appointed for that purpose, viz. To the ingenious author of certain patriotic letters, subscribed A farmer."--p. 79-80. With "The farmer’s answer," dated Pennsylvania, April 11th, 1768.
Princeton copy 1 Lapidus copy has 19th cent. portrait of Dickinson, 'engraved by J.B. Forrest from a portrait by C.W. Peale painted in 1770,' inserted before title page.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Three quarter roan; marbled boards; marbled endpapers.

Discovery Information

Subject
United States—History—Revolution, 1775-1783—Causes

Physical Characteristics

File Count
98

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7253cd7c-d762-40c5-9a2e-d60e8c678f7b/manifest