2022-07 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/15/2022
Five months of authentic and complete issues of The Gentleman’s Magazine, August 1768 through December 1768, each issue is 48pp., and is still bound to each other. Each issue addresses the conflict with the colonies, particulary with the citizens of Bostons. From the August issue; under “Letters from the Papers relative to the present critical Situation of America” we have four separate letetrs covering four pages pointing to the stamp act as the origin of the “causes of melancoly disorders...” “If we go to war with America, we become absolutely the instruments of our own destruction. ...” ...., plus, From the September issue under “Papers relative to the Troubles in America” covers six pages with letters by Lord Hillsborogh and others. In a a three page letter, Dickenson writes in part “You are called together to give your advice and opinion, what answer shall be given to our Brothern of Boston and New York who desire to know whether we will unite with them in stopping the importation of goods from Great Britain ... Let us not forget that that our strength depends on our Union and our liberty on our strength. Unitied we conquor, divied we die.” ... plus, from the October issue, Massachusetts Bay petition to the King, in part “It is with inexpressible concern that we are constrained thus publicly to complain of the administration of his Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; your Majefty's Governor of this province, who has betrayed an arbitrary disposition. ...” proceeding with 14 separate accusations and closing with “Wherefore we moft hurably intreat your Majesty, that his Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; may be removed from the government of this province” ... plus, from the November issues, another five pages of the communication between Massachusetts Bay convention and the British government. ... plus, from the December issue includes a 1-1/2 page address issued to General Gage at Boston and his reply advising the that “those riots and resolves ... have induced his Majesty to order four regiments .. to protect his loyal subjects ...”
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