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HANCOCK, JOHN, Signer (Massachusetts). Autograph letter signed ("John Hancock," with usual flourish) to the Reverend Daniel Perkins of Bridgewater, London, 29 October 1760. 2 pages, 4to, 220 x 178mm. (8 5/8 x 7 in.), address panel on verso, slight fold separations, address leaf repaired with cellophane tape, black morocco gilt protective slipcase.
HANCOCK ON THE DEATH OF KING GEORGE II AND THE IMPENDING CORONATION OF GEORGE III
A remarkable letter of the youthful Hancock to a close family friend in America: "I have wrote you severall letters since my arrival here, but have not heard one word direct from you or my Mother since I left Boston...I long much to hear of my Mother, has she her health, pray write me particularly...& acquaint her I am very well...I am very busy getting my self mourning upon the Occasion of the melancholy event of the Death of his late Majesty King George the 2nd, to which every person of any note here Conforms even to the deepest mourning. His death was very sudden last Saturday morning. After rising as well as usual, he felt not well, & fell down in a fit of Apoplexy & died instantly. Every thing here now is very dull, all Plays are stop[p]t & no diversions are going forward...On Sunday last the Prince of Wales was proclaim'd King [George III] thro' the City with great Pomp & Joy. His Coronation I am told will not be till April, that I can't yet determine whether I shall stay to see it, but rather they think I shall, as it is the grandest thing I shall ever meet with. I am not particular in the Circumstances of the King's Death..."
HANCOCK ON THE DEATH OF KING GEORGE II AND THE IMPENDING CORONATION OF GEORGE III
A remarkable letter of the youthful Hancock to a close family friend in America: "I have wrote you severall letters since my arrival here, but have not heard one word direct from you or my Mother since I left Boston...I long much to hear of my Mother, has she her health, pray write me particularly...& acquaint her I am very well...I am very busy getting my self mourning upon the Occasion of the melancholy event of the Death of his late Majesty King George the 2nd, to which every person of any note here Conforms even to the deepest mourning. His death was very sudden last Saturday morning. After rising as well as usual, he felt not well, & fell down in a fit of Apoplexy & died instantly. Every thing here now is very dull, all Plays are stop[p]t & no diversions are going forward...On Sunday last the Prince of Wales was proclaim'd King [George III] thro' the City with great Pomp & Joy. His Coronation I am told will not be till April, that I can't yet determine whether I shall stay to see it, but rather they think I shall, as it is the grandest thing I shall ever meet with. I am not particular in the Circumstances of the King's Death..."