152 Origins of the American Revolution (Doing History Rev)
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The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
I understand you wrote your biography of Thomas Hutchinson using some correspondence that was acquired in a rather unique way. I wonder if you would tell us about the documentation that you used to write the ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson. The poor man, he had a house in what I think is now dead in a suburb of Boston, he loved it. And he wanted nothing better to get back there for his leisure. Fortunately, when he left in 1774 in a hurry to England, he cemented into the wall of the house, his massive correspondence and all of the documentation of his official role. It was all sealed up, plastered into the wall. Unfortunately, in 1775 they broke the wall open
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