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Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The William and Mary Quarterly forum on the recently discovered John Dickinson documents, revealing his previously unknown secret attempt to prevent the American Revolution, is now available online! The WMQ has generously made the issue open access for the next month. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57168

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Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The forum begins with an Introduction to the documents by me and Jane Calvert (director of the John Dickinson Writings Project @jdproject.bsky.social and expert on all things Dickinson).

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Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Then onto the star of the show, the documents themselves: two letters and a draft act that Dickinson sent to the banker David Barclay Jr. in London in mid-1775. The letters warned that America was on the brink. The enclosed draft legislation was written for Parliament to adopt to end the crisis.

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