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Sutherland, Th. Jefferson. A Letter to Her Ma

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Sutherland, Th. Jefferson. A Letter to Her Ma
Sutherland, Th. Jefferson. A Letter to Her Majesty the British Queen, With Letters to Lord Durham, Lord Glenelg and Sir George Arthur. Albany: Printed By C. Van Benthuysen, 1841. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Good Condition. RARE. Title continues: To Which is Added an Appendix Embracing a Report of the Testimony Taken on the Trial of the Writer by a Court Martial, at Toronto in Upper Canada. 168pp bound in blind stamped cloth with paper label on spine. Bumped corners, wear to upper/lower backstrip with a small peel, occasional foxing, slight corner damp mark (not affecting the text) on outer pages, ink spatter on outer page edges. Binding & Hinges tight. "Of those who were implicated in the late revolutionary movements in the Canadas, the writer and publisher of this volume was the first put on trial, with the intention on the part of the British government that he should have been the first to be executed".