Letters to and from Richard Price, 1767-1790 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Richard Price
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ISBN: 9781330512258
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Excerpt from Letters to and From Richard Price, 1767-1790 At a slated meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, held May 14,1903, the President in the chair, Mr. Norton presented a parcel of copies of letters, eighty-one in number, addressed to Rev. Dr. Price by various correspondents. and extending in date from 1767 to 1790. The larger part of these letters have, so far as is known, never been published, but many of them are of interest, not merely from the high distinction of the persons by whom they were written, but also as containing contemporary accounts of important events. In the parcel are several letters of Franklin, of Jefferson, of Rev. Dr. Chauncy, Professor Winthrop, and others. One of Dr. Chauncy's letters and one of those of Professor Winthrop are devoted to an account of the Battle of Bunker Hill. These copies of letters are presented to the Society for publication, if it choose, by Mr. Walter Ashburner (the son of the late Samuel Ashburner of Boston), now a barrister in London, who holds the originals as a direct descendant from Dr. Price's sister. Dr. Price himself had no children. In a memorandum sent to Mr. Norton, Mr. Ashburner writes: "Richard Price, D.D., F.R.S, to whom or by whom the letters now published were written, was a man of varied interests. He was by profession a Unitarian minister, but he was also an authority on questions of life assurance, and - in his latter years at any rate - he derived a considerable income from answering questions on subjects connected with the expectation of life. He was a voluminous writer - on religion, morals, politics, and mathematics. He was a strong liberal and a wann friend (as these letters show) to the American cause. Such a man necessarily carried on an extensive correspondence, but the greater part of it has perished. 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.