Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson

The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson, vol. 1 inaugurates a multivolume documentary edition that will, for the first time ever, provide the complete collection of everything Dickinson published on public affairs over the course of his life. The documents include essays, articles, broadsides, resolutions, petitions, declarations, constitutions, regulations, legislation, proclamations, songs and odes. Among them are many of the seminal state papers produced by the first national congresses and conventions. Also included are correspondences between Dickinson and some of the key figures of his era. This edition should raise Dickinson to his rightful place among America's founding fathers, rivaled in reputation only by Benjamin Franklin before 1776. Dickinson was celebrated throughout the colonies, as well as in England and France, as the great American spokesman for liberty, and the documents in this edition evidence his tireless political work and unmatched corpus.

List of contents

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

THE LEGAL PAPERS AND THEIR CONTEXT

EDITORIAL METHODOLOGY

SAMPLE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT

ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES

CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF JOHN DICKINSON

1. To Nicholas Ridgely, September 6

2. To George Read and Samuel Wharton, [October]

The London Letters

3. To Samuel Dickinson, December 18

4. To Samuel Dickinson, January 18

5. To Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, January 19

6. To [Richard Peters], January 22

7. To Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, March 8

8. To Samuel Dickinson, March 8

9. To Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, March 29

10. To Samuel Dickinson, March 29

11. To Samuel Dickinson, April 22

12. Bond for John Dickinson, May 3

13. To Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, May 25

14. To Samuel Dickinson, May 25

15. Middle Temple Expenses, January 11-May 28

16. Bond for William Hicks, June 12

17. To Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, August 1

18. To Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, August 15

19. To Samuel Dickinson, August 15

20. To Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, September 6

21. To Samuel Dickinson, September 6

22. To Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, October 29

23. To Samuel Dickinson, January 21

24. To Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, January 22

25. To Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, February 19

26. To Samuel Dickinson, February 19

27. To Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, April 8

28. To Samuel Dickinson, June 28

29. To Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, August 12

30. To Samuel Dickinson, August 12

31. To Samuel Dickinson, September 30

32. To Samuel Dickinson, January 8

33. Transcription of a Hearing "Before the Lords of Trade & Plantations," February 26

34. To Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, March 17

35. To Samuel Dickinson, April 1

36. To Samuel Dickinson, May 10

37. To Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, June 6

38. To Samuel Dickinson, June 6

39. To Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, August 2

40. To Samuel Dickinson, August 2

42. To Thomas McKean, October 20

43. Notes for Elizabeth Taylor v. William Empson, [1757-1758]

Documents from the William Smith Libel Trial

44. Timeline Notes of Pennsylvania Constitutional Historyfor the Smith Libel Trial, [c. January 17]

45. Initial Notes for Opening Arguments in the Smith Libel Trial,[c. January 17]

46. Expanded Rough Notes for Opening Arguments in theSmith Libel Trial, [January 17]

47. Notes on Thomas Bond's Deposition in the Smith LibelTrial, [January 17]

48. Draft Transcript of Opening Arguments in the SmithLibel Trial, [January 17]

50. Notes on Depositions in the Smith Libel Trial, [January18-19]

51. Preliminary Notes for Closing Arguments in the SmithLibel Trial, [January 20]

52. Rough Draft and Notes for Closing Arguments in theSmith Libel Trial, [January 20]

53. Draft Closing Arguments in the Smith Libel Trial,[January 20, 1758]

54. Draft Transcript of Closing Arguments in the Smith LibelTrial, [January 21]

55. Fragment of Draft Transcript of David Hall's Depositionin the Smith Libel Trial, [January 21]

56. Draft Summary of the Smith Libel Trial, [January 25]

57. Edited Summary of the Smith Libel Trial, [January 25]

Documents on the Flag-of-Truce Trade

58. Notes on a Flag-of-Truce Case, [n.d.]

59. "On a Libel against Flag of Truce Beaux Enfants"

60. Notes on a Flag-of-Truce Case, [n.d.]

61. Notes for Levy & Hart v. Unknown, [n.d.]

62. Draft One of Notes for Spring & Kemp v. Ospray & Elizabeth

63. Draft Two of Notes for Spring & Kemp v. Ospray & Elizabeth

64. Notes for John Campbell v. The Owners of The Spry

65. Depositions for John Campbell v. The Owners of The Spry

66. Notes on the Plaintiffs' Arguments in John Campbell v. The Owners of The Spry

67. Arguments for John Campbell v. The Owners of The Spry

68. Interrogatories in the Vice Admiralty Court on Behalfof Captain John MacPherson, et al.

69. To Robert McKean

APPENDIX: SECONDARY WORKS ON JOHN DICKINSON

INDEX

About the author

JANE E. CALVERT is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky and author of Quaker Constitutionalism and the Political Thought of John Dickinson.JOHN DICKINSON (November 8, 1732–February 14, 1808) is known as the “Penman of the Revolution.” He served as a delegate for Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress (1774–1776) and later as a delegate from Delaware in the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Summary

The first in a multivolume documentary edition that will provide the complete collection of everything Dickinson published on public affairs over the course of his life. The documents include essays, articles, broadsides, resolutions, petitions, declarations, constitutions, regulations, legislation, proclamations, songs and odes.

Product details

• Authors: John Dickinson
• Assisted by: Jane E Calvert (Editor), Jane E. Calvert (Editor), Julia Calvert (Editor)
• Publisher: Associated universities press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781644531839
• ISBN: 978-1-64453-183-9
• No. of pages: 528
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous