Item Description: | "Some copies were issued with the engraved portrait of Dickinson that had been advertised in the Pennsylvania Chronicle for October 17, 1768. See: The Annual Report of the John Carter Brown Library, 1953-54, pp. 34-37 and R.T.H. Halsey's edition of Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, New York, 1903, pp. xxxviii-xlii. Two issues [i.e. states?] noted, one with x's on the outside corners of the ornaments around the initial I on p. 1 and one with rosettes."--Adams. - Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 54h. - English Short Title Catalog, W31742. - Evans, 11238. - Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2433. - Letters signed: A farmer. Attributed to John Dickinson in the Dictionary of American biography. - Postscript to last letter signed: D., i.e. John Dickinson. - Reproduction of original from British Library |