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A B's scholarship is woefully outdated. Several decades ago his books
still got mined for the documents he quoted/transcribed at some length,
but nowadays we can get the originals on the Va Colonial Records Microfilm
and in more reliable modern editions like Susan Kingsbury's 4-volume
edition of the papers of the Virginia COmpany, etc. As to the phrase you
mention, Brown was a strong proponent of the idea that Sir Edwin Sandys
and the VA Company represented a forerunner of the independent American
republic, and that James I was a prototype of George III. He was not
terribly subtle in drawing parallels between two very different centuries.
Jon
> In cleaning out my files yesterday, I came across a small pamphlet by
> Alexander Brown from 1898 called "The History of our Earliest History."
> It was interesting in itself, but of most interest to me was review of a
> book that he published the 1st and 2nd editions in 1898, "The First
> Republic in America."
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> The phrase that grabbed my attention said:
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> "An account of the Origin of this Nation, written from the Records then
> (1624) concealed by the Council, rather than from the histories then
> licensed by the Crown."
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> That's strong stuff. Has anybody ever heard of the book? Is there a
> grain or two of truth in that above statement, or is it mainly pre-
> Madison-Avenue hype?
>
> Randy Cabell
>
>
Dr. Jon Kukla, Executive Vice-President
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