(REVOLUTION) [Adams Samuel] Gentlemen We the Freeholders and

Sale 2018 - Lot 389

Price Realized: $ 11,500

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

(REVOLUTION.) [Adams, Samuel.] 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 . . . Broadside, signed by the Secretary of the Committee of Correspondence William Cooper and addressed to the Select-men of Kingston. 123/4x12 inches; 3x2 inch area of loss in the bottom right corner (affecting text), other smaller areas of loss within the text, a few old tape repairs, browning; modern 1/4 morocco case. With an 1896 letter from famed numismatic dealer Charles Steigerwalt (to an unnamed recipient), selling the broadside for $25 and discussing its importance. Boston, 20 November 1772

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very scarce circular letter -- the first by a committee of correspondence.