The causes of the present distractions in America explained
Subtitle: in two letters to a merchant in London
By: By F--. B--
Contributors: Bernard, Francis, Sir, 1712-1779, supposed author
Series: Hazard pamphlets -- v. 44, no. 19; Hazard pamphlets -- v. 44, no. 19.
Published: 1774
Place of publication: [Boston?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: History; Causes
Notes: Mrs. S.E. Higgins, in her The Bernards of Abington and nether Winchendon (v. 2, p. 249) calls the attribution of this pamphlet to Sir Francis Bernard "an error". The evidence for ascribing the authorship of this pamphlet to Benjamin Franklin is presented by V.W. Crane in Certain writings of Benjamin Franklin on the British Empire and the American colonies, in Papers of the Bibliographical society of America, v. 28, pt.1 (1934) p. 14-15. Publication attributed by Sabin and Halkett and Laing to a Boston press; by Evans, to James Rivington in New York.