In June, 1770, it would seem that Hutchinson's life was threatened because of the passions aroused by the massacre, and there is in the Mass. Hist. Soc. library (Misc. MSS., 1632-1795) a brief note of his written on being advised to protect himself, dated June 22, 1770, at Milton. It is printed in the Society's Proceedings, Jan., 1862, p. 361.
[231] Arthur Lee's Political detection (London, 1770), being letters addressed to Hillsborough, Bernard, and others (Carter-Brown, iii. 1,760).
Edmund Burke's Thoughts on the Cause of the present discontents (3d ed., London, 1770,—in Works, Boston ed., 1865, i. p. 433).
Catharine Macaulay's Observations on a pamphlet entitled Thoughts on the Cause of the present discontents (London, 1770).
Extract of a letter from the House of Representatives of the Mass. Bay to their agent, Dennys de Berdt, with some remarks (London, 1770).
There is a portrait of De Berdt in the State House, Boston.
[232] Beardsley's Life of W. S. Johnson, p. 84.
[233] Instructions of the House of Representatives to Franklin, in Mass. Hist. Soc. cabinet.
[234] Works, vii. 486, 488, 493, 501.
[235] Ibid., vii. 508.