Beschreibung:

American Revolution A SKETCH OF THE INTEREST OF GREAT BRITAIN IN HER AMERICAN COLONIES, WITH SOME REMARKS UPON THE POLICY, TRADE, AND COMMERCE OF AMERICA an anonymous manuscript treatise calling for free trade between Britain and the American colonies, the encouragement of American manufacturing, the better understanding of the needs and desires of American settlers ("...We do not enough consider, that the first care & concern an American Setler [sic] has, is to clear his land, to get Bread to eat from it, and to support himself and Family by the produce of it..."), the limitation of taxation and, among other legislative reforms, the abolition of the Act reserving white pines for the crown, fair copy in a single hand, text on rectos only, with occasional additions on the facing versos, complete in four numbered 4to notebooks, c.110 pages, plus blanks, with five slips of paper with contemporary notes in another hand loosely inserted, marbled paper wrappers, probably late 1760s [with:] Thomas Howard autograph letter signed, to "My Lord" [Thomas, 1st Earl of Clarendon], on British difficulties in the War of Independence ("...The country is so very strong, and the general enmity so very prevalent against us, that we find infinite difficulties whenever we are separated for any length of time from our shipping...") and advising on military policy, 8 pages, folio, Philadelphia, 30 November 1777