AN ADDRESS TO THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A LETTER TO THE HON. ROBERT MORRIS, ESQ. WITH NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS

Deane, Silas

Verlag: T. Green, New-London, 1784

Beschreibung

38pp. Small quarto. Dbd. Titlepage detached but present. Lightly tanned. Trimmed a bit close, touching a few page numbers. Very good. Deane has come to be recognized as a martyr to the American cause in the Revolution, although he died in bankruptcy, maligned and exiled. A prosperous Connecticut merchant, he went with Franklin and Arthur Lee as commissioners to France in 1778. After the signing of the French treaty, he was recalled by Congress on the basis of accusations by Lee that he had taken gifts from the French and misused funds. Unable to defend himself without the necessary documents, he returned to Europe to obtain them, only to become embroiled in further difficulties when his pessimistic private letters to friends, suggesting that the Americans give up the struggle for independence, became public. His life thereafter was an attempt to justify himself from exile. This pamphlet is one of his leading self-defenses. Other editions appeared in Hartford and London the same year. Sabin notes only an octavo New London edition of fifty-four pages, but Howes adds the present quarto issue. DAB V, p.174. JOHNSON, NEW LONDON IMPRINTS 1147. EVANS 18439. SABIN 19064. HOWES D172. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM33165

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Titel: AN ADDRESS TO THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH ...

Verlag: T. Green, New-London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1784