Chapter XXXVII: Book II: Part II

I. Imperial Sovereignty and Home Rule: For the literature of the Revolutionary period, see the invaluable _Literary History of the American Revolution_, by Moses Coit Tyler (2 vols., New York, 1897; with annotated bibliography). For the political phases, see C. H. Van Tyne, _The Causes of the War of Independence ..._ (Boston and New York, 1922); A. M. Schlesinger, _The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763-1776_ (New York, 1918); J. T. Adams, _Revolutionary New England, 1691-1776_ (Boston, 1923).

II. Thomas Hutchinson: _The History of Massachusetts_ (3 vols., Boston and London, 1764-1767-1828; Vols. I and II, Boston, 1795). _Diary and Letters of Thomas Hutchinson ..._, edited by P. O. Hutchinson (2 vols., Boston, 1884-1886). J. K. Hosmer, _Life of Thomas Hutchinson_ (Boston, 1896).

Daniel Leonard: _Massachusettensis_ (London, 1776); reissued with _Novanglus_ by John Adams, and ascribed on the title page to Jonathan Sewall (Boston, 1819).

Jonathan Boucher: _A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution_ (London, 1797).

III. John Dickinson: _Political Writings_ (2 vols., Wilmington, 1801). _Writings_, edited by P. L. Ford (3 vols., Philadelphia, 1895).

See C. J. Stillé, _The Life and Times of John Dickinson_ (Philadelphia, 1891).

IV. Samuel Adams: _Writings_, edited by H. A. Cushing (4 vols., New York, 1904-08).

See J. K. Hosmer, _Samuel Adams_ (Boston, 1884); revised edition (1898, American Statesmen Series). W. V. Wells, _The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams_ (3 vols., Boston, 1865).

V. John Trumbull: _Poetical Works_ (2 vols., Hartford, 1820). _The Progress of Dulness_ (New Haven, 1772-73). _An Elegy on the Times_ (Boston, 1774; New Haven, 1775). _M’Fingal_ (printed in parts from 1775 to 1782, and much revised; first published entire, Hartford, 1782; numerous contemporary editions). _The Progress of Dulness_ and _M’Fingal_ are reprinted in _The Connecticut Wits_, edited with introduction and bibliography by Vernon L. Parrington (New York, 1926, American Authors Series).

No life of Trumbull has been written.

Francis Hopkinson: _Miscellaneous Essays and Occasional Writings_ (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1792). George Hastings, _Life and Works of Francis Hopkinson_ (University of Chicago Press, 1926).

Jonathan Odell: _The Loyal Verses of Joseph Stansbury and Doctor Jonathan Odell_, edited by Winthrop Sargent (Albany, 1860).

Samuel Peters: _A General History of Connecticut ... to which is added an Appendix, wherein New and True Sources of the Present Rebellion are pointed out ... By a Gentleman of the Province_ (London, 1781; New Haven, 1829; New York, 1877).