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Lot Essay
AMERICAN REVOLUTION – Gentlemen, We, the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of Boston . . . apprehending there is abundant Reason to be alarmed that the Plan of Despotism, which the Enemies of our invaluable Rights have concerted, is rapidly hastening to a completion, can no longer conceal our impatience under a constant, unremitted, uniform Aim to inslave us… Boston: 20 November 1772. [Boston: Edes & Gill, 1772]. Signed "William Cooper" and addressed to the "Select-Men of Kingston".
Organizing the Revolution: the Boston Committee of Correspondence encourages united colonial resistance. An extremely scarce circular letter issued by the committee of correspondence that had formed at the behest of Samuel Adams who called for close coordination between the colonies, and as such, this broadside circular letter can be considered one of the earliest attempts to unite colonial protest. The call prompted other colonies to create their own committees of correspondence and helped galvanize resistance to imperial authority. Bristol B3429 (who cites 5 copies); Ford, Massachusetts Broadsides, 1607. Provenance: Charles Steigerwalt (sale, per letter, 1 January 1906) – Parke-Bernet Galleries, 22 March 1966, lot 140.
Broadside. 13 x 12 in (325 x 304mm). (Reinforced on verso to stabilize losses, some toning, bleed through from ink notation on verso.) Framed.
Organizing the Revolution: the Boston Committee of Correspondence encourages united colonial resistance. An extremely scarce circular letter issued by the committee of correspondence that had formed at the behest of Samuel Adams who called for close coordination between the colonies, and as such, this broadside circular letter can be considered one of the earliest attempts to unite colonial protest. The call prompted other colonies to create their own committees of correspondence and helped galvanize resistance to imperial authority. Bristol B3429 (who cites 5 copies); Ford, Massachusetts Broadsides, 1607. Provenance: Charles Steigerwalt (sale, per letter, 1 January 1906) – Parke-Bernet Galleries, 22 March 1966, lot 140.
Broadside. 13 x 12 in (325 x 304mm). (Reinforced on verso to stabilize losses, some toning, bleed through from ink notation on verso.) Framed.