Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 1,800
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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
EXTENSIVE COMMENTARY ON THE BOSTON MASSACRE (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE, 1770.) The Boston Evening-Post. 4 pages, 15 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches, on one sheet; minor wear, edge-mounted along the fold to a sheet of scrapbook paper; early owner's name in margin. Boston, 13 August 1770
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Features Arthur Lee's detailed examination of the Boston Massacre, originally written for a London newspaper under the pseudonym "Junius Americanus." Lee concludes that Great Britain and its colonies were under the yoke of "men who are universally abhorred and universally despised," and "to these ministers and their measures, is the late massacre at Boston, and all its consequences to be imputed." Also features a review of the pamphlet, "Innocent Blood Crying to God from the Streets of Boston," and an advertisement for another, "A Narrative of the Late Horrid Massacre in Boston."
On a completely different note is a long and excited letter to the editor by Harvard professor John Winthrop concerning the electrical experiments of "our ingenious countryman" Benjamin Franklin.