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Broadside edition of this famous title, with good content...
Broadside edition of this famous title, with good content...
Item # 704385
January 08, 1782
THE CONNECTICUT COURANT & WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, Hartford, Jan. 8, 1782 Apparently a quite unusual broadside edition as the issue is a single sheet with the back page blank. If page 2 had text I would suspect that the back leaf was missing, but the front page text concludes on the front page and the reverse is entirely blank.
The front page has an item including: "...from Paris...that the King has signified to his Excellency Benjamin Franklin...that his id determined to enter into no treaty for a general pacification with Great Britain without the consent & approbation of his faithful allies the United States of America, and firmly establishing their independence." Also: "Sir Henry Clinton's and Lord Rawdon's returns may be deemed the future token of a lost cause; no less than the meditated retreat, as it is probable, of that arch traitor A-----, indicates the inclination of final victory to the side he last deserted."
Then also a report beginning: "The British Rights; in America, consisting among many other articles, of the Thirteen Provinces, now claiming independence...".
Seemingly complete as a single sheet printed on the front only. Archival mends to the reverse, scattered foxing, generally nice condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
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