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The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson: Volume 4, 1767-1769 Volume 4

The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson: Volume 4, 1767-1769 Volume 4

Dickinson, John
Calvert, Jane E.

Hardcover

Series: The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson

Letters & EssaysColonial Period (1600-1775)General Political Science

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ISBN10: 1644534037
ISBN13: 9781644534038
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: Feb 10 2026
Pages: 702
Weight: 2.53
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
In 1767, John Dickinson began publishing his twelve Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, which earned him international celebrity as the leader of the American resistance to Britain. They educated Americans about their rights and how to defend them without violence. Importantly, they also taught the colonists to unite and understand themselves first and foremost as Americans rather than as Britons. He followed with letters on religious liberty in the Episcopal controversy and America's first patriotic song, the Liberty Song. This volume documents the overwhelming public response around the Atlantic World to his writings. It was largely positive, with readers paying tribute to him in numerous ways, beginning with the Massachusetts circular letter to the other colonies advocating a nonimportation agreement. Most of the negative responses came from Dickinson's enemy from the 1764 royal government controversy in Pennsylvania, Joseph Galloway, who orchestrated a smear campaign against the Farmer. Dickinson's legal notes from this period include several interesting cases, such as his defense of a mixed-race servant woman charged with infanticide. Although there is limited extant correspondence, it includes letters concerning his courtship of his future wife, Mary Norris.

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