(AMERICAN REVOLUTION PRELUDE 1767) The Pennsylvania Chronic

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FIRST APPEARANCE OF "LETTERS FROM A FARMER" (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE, 1767.) The Pennsylvania Chronicle, and Universal Advertiser. Broadsheet, 2 pages on one sheet, 18 x 12 1/2 inches; cropped with partial loss of the first page's bottom line. Philadelphia, 2 December 1767

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This issue features the first printing of the first installment of John Dickinson's anonymous "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies." Dickinson's temperate call for measured resistance was an important early step toward rebellion. Here he writes "I am by no means fond of inflammatory measures. I detest them. . . . But a firm, modest exertion of a free spirit should never be wanting on public relations." He concludes with the telling aphorism, "Small things grow great by concord." See Adams, American Independence 54a.