Letters of Freeman, &c.

£5,000 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Very Rare. ESTC records no copies in the UK and Huntington , New York Public Library and University of South Carolina only in the USA. The last copy recorded on Rare Book Hub was in 1904 at Henkels (estate of Moses Polock) a presentation copy from John Drayton to John Gadsden (the copy now at South Carolina) described as “Very rare. Unknown to Rich, and is not in Sabin’s Dictionary.” The only copy before that on Rare Book Hub is the Brinley copy sold in 1880 for $14 ( “This collection is RARE.” ) Reprinted with an introduction by Robert M. Weir at the University of South Carolina Press in 1977. A very rare - “surprisingly neglected” - collection of political writings produced during the controversy surrounding the Townshend Acts. First published in the South-Carolina Gazette but re-printed by William Henry Drayton while in exile in London. Drayton used these articles to call for an independent judiciary and the appointment of native South Carolinians as officials (rather than imported British colonial officers) in order to calm a more radical revolutionary response which might further inflame tensions in America. This remarkable collection of articles reflect the intense and fiery debates surrounding the taxation of imported goods into America (including “printed Books and Pamphlets” p.3) dictated by the Townshend Acts of 1767 which led to considerable unrest in the American colonies and ultimately paved the way to the Revolutionary Wars. Many of the articles are by William H

• Year: 1771

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