S. Jenyns, "The Objections to the Taxation of Our American
Colonies ... Briefly Considered," 1765; J. Wilson, "Considerations on
the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British
Parliament," 1774 (also in "The Works of James Wilson," 2 vols. 1896);
S. Seabury, "Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Continental
Congress," 1774; T. Paine, "Common Sense," 1776 (also in "Writings of
Thomas Paine," 4 vols. 1894-96). These pamphlets are not available to
most readers, but all of them, together with many others, have been
admirably described and summarized in M. C. Tyler, "The Literary History
of the American Revolution," 2 vols. 1897. The letters and public papers
of the leaders of the Revolution have been mostly printed, among which
some of the most valuable and interesting collections are: C. F. Adams,
"The Works of John Adams," 10 vols. 1856 (vol. II); J. Adams, "Familiar
Letters of John Adams and his Wife Abigail Adams," 1875; W. C. Ford,
"The Warren-Adams Letters," 1917 (vol. I); A. H. Smyth, "The Writing's
of Benjamin Franklin," 10 vols. 1905-1907 (vols. IV-VI); P. L. Ford,
"The Writings of John Dickinson," 3 vols. 1895; H. A. Cushing, "The
Writings of Samuel Adams," 4 vols. 1904-1908; P. O. Hutchinson, "Diary
and Letters of Thomas Hutchinson," 2 vols. 1884. The following works
give the history of the time as it appeared to various contemporaries:
W. Gordon, "History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of American
Independence," 4 vols. 1788 (parts of the work taken bodily from the
"Annual Register"); D. Ramsey, "History of the Revolution of South
Carolina," 2 vols. 1785; A. Graydon, "Memoirs of His Own Times," 1846;
T. Hutchinson, "History of Massachusetts Bay," 3 vols. 1795-1828 (based
on documents collected by the author, some of which were destroyed
in the Stamp Act riots); Mercy Warren, "History of the American
Revolution," 3 vols. 1805 (author was a sister of James Otis); VP.
Moultrie, "Memoirs of the American Revolution so far as it Related to
North and South Carolina," 2 vols. 1802; J. Drayton, "Memoirs of the
American Revolution," 2 vols. 1821; T. Jones, "History of New York in
the Revolutionary War," 2 vols. 1879 (by a prominent New York Loyalist);
"The Annual Register," 1765-1776 (an English annual giving summaries
of political events supposed to have been prepared by Edmund Burke); H.
Walpole, "Memoirs of the Reign of George the Third," 4 vols. 1894.

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