Download or read book The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq., B.A. (Harvard), LL. D. (Oxon;), Vol. 2 written by Peter Orlando Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq., B.A. (Harvard), LL. D. (Oxon;), Vol. 2: Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of His Late Majesty's Province of Massachusetts Bay in North America; With an Account of His Administration When He Was Member and Speaker, of the House of Representative, and His Government of the Colony During the D 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. Favourable 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-Governor; - 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 Diary, the existence of which copy had never been known or suspected by bis descendants in England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.