Note 328 — Chapter II
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Lee, in Sept., 1774, was writing of Gage: "He is now actually shut up at Boston ... and has perhaps the most able and determined men of the whole world to deal with." Chas. Lee Papers, N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1871, p. 136. Various letters of this period written from Boston are in the Evelyns in America (Oxford, 1881).