tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post838182158633115252..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: “About the Time the prophetic Egg was laid in the Town of Plymouth”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-61703114234128217842021-07-29T09:44:08.079-05:002021-07-29T09:44:08.079-05:00I took up JPC’s question in this posting.
As par...I took up JPC’s question in <a href="https://boston1775.blogspot.com/2021/07/plimouth-has-producd-lately-prophetical.html" rel="nofollow">this posting</a>. <br /><br />As part of that investigation, I found the newspaper item quoted above in the <i>Boston Gazette</i> one week before it appeared in New Hampshire. Why didn’t it show up in the newspaper database searches we did in 2012? Those databases might have improved in the intervening years. In addition, the <i>Gazette</i> set the article mostly in italics, which could have confused the O.C.R. programming. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-77205625125832221592021-07-27T13:19:59.541-05:002021-07-27T13:19:59.541-05:00Any possibility the “Prophetic Egg” riposte could ...Any possibility the “Prophetic Egg” riposte could have been authored by Mercy Otis Warren? <br /><br />The poem’s style doesn’t seem quite right (though the poem’s introduction does), and I’m not sure why Warren would have published it in The Freeman’s Journal/New Hampshire Gazette (unless they just reprinted it). <br /><br />But in Alice Brown’s biography of Warren (p 189), she writes, “When an egg was found in Plymouth, bearing the legend, ‘Howe will conquer,” it was Mrs. Warren who at once sat down – possibly in an interval of needlework or brewing – and wrote a counterblast in her customary satirical vein, reducing egg and prophesy to naught.” <br /><br />Thanks. Love the blog.<br />JPCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-31335065236920567612012-02-17T13:49:45.591-05:002012-02-17T13:49:45.591-05:00Thanks for the second pair of eyes! (Or second set...Thanks for the second pair of eyes! (Or second set of keywords.)J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-76687880807865269962012-02-16T10:14:58.936-05:002012-02-16T10:14:58.936-05:00I agree with your assessment that it only appeared...I agree with your assessment that it only appeared in the <i>Freeman's Journal</i>. I ran a few searches of the keywords as well and came up with nothing at all. As you note, there are some gaps, so it's always possible, but it obviously didn't hit any of the major newspapers.Joseph M. Adelmanhttp://josephadelman.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com