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Copy of letters sent to Great-Britain, by his Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, the Hon. Andrew Oliver, and several other persons, born and educated among us. : Which original letters have been returned to America, and laid before the Honorable House of representatives of this province. In which (notwithstanding His Excellency's declaration to the House, that the tendency and design of them was not to subvert the Constitution, but rather to preserve it entire) the judicious reader will discover the fatal source of the confusion and bloodshed in which this province especially has been involved, and which threatned [sic] total destruction to the liberties of all America

by: Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780

Publication date: 1773

Topics: Boston Massacre, 1770, Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes

Publisher: Boston : Printed by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street

Collection: JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana; globallibraries

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: English

40, [2] p. ; 21 cm. (4to)

Double punctuation marks appear after the words "Boston" and "Queen-Street" in imprint

Adams differentiates between the Letters of Thomas Hutchinson (p. [1]-40,1st count Adams 73-5a, Adams 96a) and the Resolves of the Massachusetts General Court that follow (p. [1]-8, 2nd count, Adams 96b). Both Adams and ESTC consider these two titles to be issued together, with the Resolves having three different caption titles, the first reading: "The committee appointed to consider certain letters laid before the House of Representatives, reported the following Resolves. Tuesday, June 15, 1773. Resolved, that the letters...". The second reads "On Tuesday June 16, 1773, the House of Representatives by a very large majority came into the following Resolves, upon the letters that had been laid before them on Wednesday the second of th same month, viz. Resolved, that the letters...". The third reads "On Wednesday June 16, 1773, the House of Representatives by a very large majority came into the following Resolves, upon the letters that had been laid before them on Wednesday the second of the same month, viz. Resolved, that the letters ...". ESTC speculates that all three of these titles were issued separately and gives separate numbers

Three states noted. The first includes an errata statement on p. 40, correcting errors on p. 5 and "in some of the copies" p. 8; catchword at bottom of p. 10 is "government." The second state includes the errata statement; catchword at bottom of p. 10 has been corrected to "troops." In the third state, the errors on p. 5 and 8 have been corrected and the errata statement deleted; catch-word at bottom of p. 10 is "troops." -

Signatures: [A]1 B-E⁴ F⁴(F4 blank)

Errata: foot of p. 40