Note 258 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

Cf. Bancroft's United States, orig. ed., vi. 435; Almon's Biog., lit., and polit. anecdotes (Lond., 1797); Wells's Sam. Adams (ii. 74); Barry's Mass., ii. 462. Hutchinson's own account of the transactions is given in his third volume (pp. 400-418), which may be supplemented by sundry references in P. O. Hutchinson's Governor Hutchinson (pp. 82-93, 577; ii. 79), part of which refer to that editor's own views. C. F. Adams (Adams's Works, ii. 319) thinks the evidence nearly conclusive that John Temple was the person who gave the letters to Franklin. (Cf. P. O. Hutchinson, pp. 205, 210, 221, 222, 232, 353.) Cf. statement in Mass. Archives, "Miscellaneous", i. 386.