Congress at Princeton : Being the Letters of Charles Thomson to Hanna Thomson, June-October, 1783
Princeton, NJ, U.S.A. Princeton University Library, 1985. First. Cloth. First printing. Cloth, 100 pps. with index; illustrated. A fine, fresh copy in dust jacket. For four eventful months in the summer and fall of 1783, driven fro Philadelphia by a Continental Army mutiny, Princeton served as the meeting place of the Continental Congress and capital of the new American nation. Charles Thomson, from 1774 to 1789, occupied the strategic postition of secretary to Congress. He feared that squabbling among the new states portended nothing less than the dissolution of the union into regional confederacies. These letters to his wife, printed here for the first time, offer rare insight into the inner workings of the institution that was at the forefront of Ameriuca's epochal conflict with the British Empire. Fine / fine. Item #D6102x
ISBN: 0878110259
Price: $16.50