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"Abridgment" or "Translation" of former Memorial) to the Sovereigns of Europe, London, 1780; enclosed in to 5 Sept. 1780 (Works, 7:248, see slip )
  • Sabin attributes the Translation to but Jenings probably only translated JA's English "Abridgment" into French (see JA to Jenings, 23 Sept. 1780, Works, 9:509, see slip ), with Pownall's Memorial actually translated into French by . Jenings published it in England.
  • A portion of the "Translation" in JA's hand is at [8 July 1780], see slip . There are other references in JA's Works to this bit of propaganda, the bibliographical history of which is highly confused. See also JA's letters to Boston Patriot, which confuse matters further; and Sabin 64827.
  • For another version, see JA to (President of Congress),19 April 1780, slip , which is an RC in the PCC (Ac 5119). For the LbC of this letter, see slip .
  • ER 6/28/2016

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Printed :Published in French at Amsterdam, Nov. ? 1780, under title of Pensées sur la révolution de l'Amérique-Unie extraites de l'ouvrage Anglois intitule: Memoire... (Sabin 64829
copy of 1st or 2d edn. [1781] at Harvard)
and also in English as A Translation of the Memorial to the Sovereigns of Europe...into Common Sense and Intelligible English, London, 1781 (Sabin 35987
copy in library in BPL).

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