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Hopes to return from London after the conclusion of the Mohegan Case. Reports on the "Temper of the New Parliament" in regard to the Stamp Act and other legislation affecting the American colonies.
Johnson lived in London from 1767 to 1771, while...

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to Henry Jackson

Comments on the "disagreeable" current events. Indicates that General Thomas Gage, then the commander-in-chief and governor of Massachusetts, "must recede," otherwise "carnage & bloodshed seem inevitable - there never was anything like the flame...

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[Instructions from the Assembly of Massachusetts Bay to the Delegates in Congress].

Countersigned by John Avery as secretary. Resolution empowering the president of the council to sign the instructions for the Massachusetts delegates in regard to the Articles of Confederation and for the secretary to furnish those delegates with...

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Indian letter.... [with:] An Address to Drunkards [temperance broadside]

Temperance broadside printed by N. Coverly. The broadside (possibly playing-off recent news relating to Indians?) quotes an excerpt from a letter of Capt. Hendricks of the Stockbridge Nation to Col. Pickering, 1794 in which he says that the enemy of...

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Boston weekly news-letter. [No. 1667 (January 22- January 29, 1736)]

Complete in 2 pages? Printed by F. Draper. Includes international news, Tunis, war on the Continent and Boston news.

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Stipple engraving after R. Peale engraved by C. Tidout

Printed by M. Carey. Full title: "Thomas Jefferson. President of the United States." The text at bottom quotes the Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths...."

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[Philip Henry Sheridan]

3/4 length portait, seated pose in uniform.

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[William Joseph Hardee]

Bust portrait as Confederate Lieutenant General. With autographed dedication on verso to George H. Steuart. Image faded. Tinted cheeks.

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New-York weekly journal. [Vol. 933, no. 96 (September 8, 1735)]

Published one month after Zenger's acquittal. Complains that the magistrate has no right over nor should intrude in the private lives of citizens. Argues that by liberty and natural right, men are entitled to govern over their own private affairs...

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Fort Laramie peace council with Northern plains tribes, no. 39 [stereocard]

On yellow mount. Shows William T. Sherman, Winfield S. Hancock and Harney, with others plus small Indian girl.

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