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Wednesday, February 04, 2026
“Causes of the breaking out of this ill Humor”
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Among the items in the Boston Public Library’s manuscripts department is a 21 Apr 1770 letter from Charles Lloyd (1735–1773) to George Gren...
Monday, October 30, 2023
A New Look at a Very Old Lottery
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On Saturday Erich L. tweeted out a photograph of a 90-page book that the London firm of Maggs Bros. Ltd. was offering at the Boston Antiqua...
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Friday, January 11, 2019
The Brazen Head and a Bridge in Newbury
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An item one could buy at the Sign of the Brazen Head in 1759, but which Mary Jackson didn’t list in her advertising, was a lottery ticket....
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