Sep 24, 2020 - Sale 2546

Sale 2546 - Lot 133

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(LEWIS AND CLARK.) A nearly complete year of the Independent Chronicle of Boston, covering the completion of the expedition and more. 103 (of 104) bi-weekly issues plus two supplements, each 4 pages, in one volume. Folio, 20 x 12 inches, contemporary 1/4 calf, moderate wear, rebacked with duct tape; minor dampstaining and wear, lacking only 6 October. Boston, 2 January to 29 December 1806
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This newspaper volume covers the final year of the Lewis and Clark Expedition through their return. News travelled slowly from the frontier. The 3 March issue includes President Jefferson's report on the 5 April 1805 letter from Captain Lewis, the last report from the westward leg. The news took nearly 11 months to make its way down the wild Missouri, across the country to Washington, and then up to Boston. Clark's letter to his brother upon returning to St. Louis, among the first reports of the successful completion of the expedition, appears in the 13 November issue. The completed expedition was further discussed in Jefferson's State of the Union address, published in the 11 December 1806 issue.
In other news, the Chronicle published a black-bordered 5 May extra on the accidental killing of seaman John Pierce by the British warship Leander, one of the many incidents which inflamed tensions leading up to 1812. On 3 July appears an early printing of Jefferson's recently unearthed original draft of the Declaration of Independence. The complete 101 Articles of War passed on 10 April 1806, which remained in effect for a century, appear in the 2 October issue.