Item Description: | Advertised in the Massachusetts spy, Worcester, Oct. 13, 1785. - Bookseller's advertisement, p. [44]. - Drake, M. Almanacs, 3365. - English Short Title Catalog, W29834. - Evans, 19027. - Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - The "Dr. Low" referred to by Stearns is Nathaniel Low, the almanac calculator, whose own prediction of five eclipses for the approaching year had evidently come to Thomas's attention. - The AAS manuscript collection also contains a letter to Thomas from Benjamin West, dated July 18, 1785, in which West regrets that other affairs have prevented his calculating Thomas's almanac for the coming year |