Book II: Part II
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Parrington, Vernon Louis
I. Imperial Sovereignty and Home Rule: For the literature of the Revolutionary period, see the invaluable Literary History of the American Revolution, by Moses Coit Tyler (2 vols., New York, 1897; with annotated bibliography). For the political phases, see C. H. Van Tyne, The Causes of the War of Independence ... (Boston and New York, 1922); A. M. Schlesinger, The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763–1776 (New York, 1918); J. T. Adams, Revolutionary New England, 1691–1776 (Boston, 1923).
II. Thomas Hutchinson: The History of Massachusetts (3 vols., Boston and London, 1764–1767–1828; Vols. I and II, Boston, 1795). Diary and Letters of Thomas Hutchinson ..., edited by P. O. Hutchinson (2 vols., Boston, 1884–1886). J. K. Hosmer, Life of Thomas Hutchinson (Boston, 1896).
Daniel Leonard: Massachusettensis (London, 1776); reissued with Novanglus by John Adams, and ascribed on the title page to Jonathan Sewall (Boston, 1819).
Jonathan Boucher: A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution (London, 1797).
III. John Dickinson: Political Writings (2 vols., Wilmington, 1801). Writings, edited by P. L. Ford (3 vols., Philadelphia, 1895).
See C. J. Stillé, The Life and Times of John Dickinson (Philadelphia, 1891).
IV. Samuel Adams: Writings, edited by H. A. Cushing (4 vols., New York, 1904–08).
See J. K. Hosmer, Samuel Adams (Boston, 1884); revised edition (1898, American Statesmen Series). W. V. Wells, The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams (3 vols., Boston, 1865).
V. John Trumbull: Poetical Works (2 vols., Hartford, 1820). The Progress of Dulness (New Haven, 1772–73). An Elegy on the Times (Boston, 1774; New Haven, 1775). M’Fingal (printed in parts from 1775 to 1782, and much revised; first published entire, Hartford, 1782; numerous contemporary editions). The Progress of Dulness and M’Fingal are reprinted in The Connecticut Wits, edited with introduction and bibliography by Vernon L. Parrington (New York, 1926, American Authors Series).
No life of Trumbull has been written.
Francis Hopkinson: Miscellaneous Essays and Occasional Writings (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1792). George Hastings, Life and Works of Francis Hopkinson (University of Chicago Press, 1926).
Jonathan Odell: The Loyal Verses of Joseph Stansbury and Doctor Jonathan Odell, edited by Winthrop Sargent (Albany, 1860).
Samuel Peters: A General History of Connecticut ... to which is added an Appendix, wherein New and True Sources of the Present Rebellion are pointed out ... By a Gentleman of the Province (London, 1781; New Haven, 1829; New York, 1877).