tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post4525270651237907490..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: “In Bedlam’s lofty Numbers discordant Yankies Sing” Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-71525978836972014732018-02-20T22:24:30.193-05:002018-02-20T22:24:30.193-05:00That page also includes the notation “Positive Pho...That page also includes the notation “Positive Photostat,” and the scanned document sure looks like a photostat instead of a piece of paper from 1770. <br /><br />Meanwhile, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts’s 1980 volume on music says, “The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has a manuscript entitled <i>Massachusetts Liberty Song Parodized</i>, and the parody (a good one) is dated April 1770”—which sounds exactly like this document.<br /><br />So what I think has happened is that the original document is in Philadelphia, but the H.S.P. hasn’t put it online yet. (I looked and didn’t find it, either.) Meanwhile, the Library of Congress obtained a photostat of the document sometime in the mid-1900s and did put that online as part of its specialized collection of ephemera. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-82233645276773094862018-02-20T22:02:44.606-05:002018-02-20T22:02:44.606-05:00John, It looks like the original document may be a...John, It looks like the original document may be at the Library of Congress, part of their "Printed Ephemera Collection" [https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.03700400/]. I can't find it on the Historical Society of Pennsylvania website.Charles Bahnenoreply@blogger.com