Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824 Manuscript journal and letter book
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01018 Author/Creator: Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Autograph manuscript Date: 1765-1781 ( bulk: 1765-1766 ) Pagination: 1 v. (ca. 200 p.) 32 x 20 cm Order a Copy
Bulk, 1765-1769 on Stamp Act Congress; some pages cut out. In four sections: 1) Correspondence of CT and Philadelphia Merchant's Committee, re: Stamp Act, 1765-1766; 2) Resolves of colonies re: Stamp Act Congress, with minutes of the Congress from Oct. 1765; 3) Records of the Philadelphia Merchants' Committee for 1769 with CT's transcripts of letters sent to Benjamin Franklin and others; 4) Retained drafts of correspondence, 1780-1781, with two long letters to John Jay (10/12/1780 and 7/11/1781) on the Revolutionary War.
Written in a reverse calf copybook with engraved label of bookbinder Samuel Taylor.
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