Thomas Hutchinson

The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson (Historiography)

At the time the first volume of this work was published, I did not think it likely that I should undertake another, and that is why Vol. I. was not placed on the title-page. Favouiable circumstances however have led to the compilation of a second, which absorbs the remainder of Governor Hutchinson s Diary and Letters; and what is equally valuable in a historical point of view, it gives opportunity for introducing portions of the Diary and Letters of the Chief Justice Peter Oliver, a prominent figure in those troublous times, and perhaps as much so as his elder brother the Lieutenant-G overnor ;as also of those of his son, and of those of Thomas, and Elisha Hutchinson. This work therefore, is the English account of the outbreak and course of the American Revolutionary war, in contradistinction to the American accounts, which have been legion, and which, for reasons not hard to discern, have been industriously and continuously introduced into the cheap popular literature of this country, and put off in Parts or Numbers by travellers or others, and carried to nearly every household for subscribers names. It is time the English side of the story should be better known. There is one matter I cannot avoid alluding to, however unwilling I may be to do so. At the foot of page 163 of the former volume, I was induced to throw out a challenge to one or other of the three gentlemen whose names were connected with the discovery in America of part of Governor Hutchinson s Diaiy, the existence of which copy had never been known or suspected by his descendants in England. In reply to that challengeD
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