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Title

The causes of the present distractions in America explained: in two letters to a merchant in London. By F------. B------.

Author

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Publication

[Boston?] Printed in the year 1774.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bernard, Francis, Sir, 1712-1779.
• B. F.

Description

2 p.l., 16 p.; 19.5 cm.

Series Statement

Hazard pamphlets, v. 44, no. 19

Subject

• United States > History > Causes. > Revolution, 1775-1783
• United States > History > Revolution > Constitutional aspects

Note

• Mrs. S. E. Higgins, in her The Bernards of Abington and nether Winchendon (v. 2, p. 249) calls the attribution of this pamphlet to Sir Francis Bernard "an error". The evidence for ascribing the authorship of this pamphlet to Benjamin Franklin is presented by V. W. Crane in Certain writings of Benjamin Franklin on the British Empire and the American colonies, in Papers of the Bibliographical society of America, v. 28, pt.1 (1934) p. 14-15. Publication attributed by Sabin and Halkett and Laing to a Boston press; by Evans, to James Rivington in New York.

Call Number

*KD 1774 (Franklin, B. Causes of the present distractions in America explained)

LCCN

19013266 //r

OCLC

7563637

Author

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Title

The causes of the present distractions in America explained: in two letters to a merchant in London. By F------. B------.

Imprint

[Boston?] Printed in the year 1774.

Series

Hazard pamphlets, v. 44, no. 19

Local Note

Imperfect: prelim. leaf 1 (half-title?) and t.-p wanting the latter supplied by photostatic reproduction.

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Added Author

Bernard, Francis, Sir, 1712-1779. Attributed name

B. F.

Research Call Number

*KD 1774 (Franklin, B. Causes of the present distractions in America explained)