An Appeal to the People of Illinois On the Question of a Convention
An Appeal to the People of Illinois On the Question of a Convention
Morris Birbeck
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L>()ndon. 1818. ) (Copy in Liljrary of Congress. ) Same, 17-|-126 p. 24°. Boston. 1. 818. Wells and Lilly. (Copy in Library of Congress. ) 27 Reviews. For contemporaneous reviews of Letters from Illinois, see the fol- lowing: Johnson, Dr. C. B. Letters from the British settlement in Pennsylvania. 1819, p. 128-47. The English settlement in Illinois is compared to the one at Montrose, Pa.. To the disadvantag-e of the former. Fears are expressed as to the healthful- ness of the settlement and Mr. ...Birkbeck"s aversion to religion is deplored. On pages 144-47 is a "'Notice of Mr. Birkbeck's Letters" taken "from the Vil- lage Recorder of 18th November. 1818. " Niles Register, 1818, 15:102-3. Favorably reviewed. 'Written by an honest and intelligent gentleman and an Englishman to boot. " North American Review. March, 181'. ». 8:347-71. "Has considerable literary merit. . . . He is a shrewd observer, and writes with great ease and vivacity. As to the correctness of the accounts, we %vill not say that the remark which has been made upon the book, that it is a 'mere advertising pufp, " is altogether just, but then it is certainlj* true that Mr.
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