[587] Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. 130.
[588] Evelyns in America, 273. Some of Gage's letters, however, are preserved in the Haldimand Papers in the British Museum, and their substance is given in the Calendar of the Haldimand Papers (p. 52, etc.), published by the Canadian Archivist, Brymner, in 1884. They end, however, in March, 1775. There are letters of Gage and Howe to Dartmouth and Germaine in the Sparks MSS. (no. lviii., Part 2).
[589] Given in synopsis by Dr. Ellis in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., March, 1876, p. 233.
[590] Boston Evacuation Memorial, 1876.
[591] Cf. his Men and Manners in America one hundred years ago (N. Y., 1876).
[592] The liberty-tree was cut down Sept. 1, 1775 (Moore's Diary, i. 131). There is a picture of it in Mem. Hist. of Boston, iii. p. 159. The various houses occupied by the British generals are traced in Ibid., iii. 155, with references. Within our day, a cannon-ball imbedded in the tower of the Brattle Square Church has attracted attention. A ball from the American lines struck there, and was afterwards fastened in the hole it made, as a memorial. When the church was taken down, the ball was transferred to the cabinet of the Historical Society (Loring's Hundred Boston Orators, 108; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xx. 189; Catal. Cab. Hist. Soc., p. 141). The house of John Hancock was rather roughly used (Mem. Hist. of Boston, iii. 155).
[593] Newell's diary in Mass. Hist. Coll., xxxi.; that of "a British officer in Boston in 1775", edited by R. H. Dana, in Atlantic Monthly, April and May, 1877. (Cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xvi. 307.)
We have also the diaries of some American prisoners in the town: Peter Edes's, which was printed at Bangor in 1837; and John Leach's, June 29 to Oct. 4, printed in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1865 (see also Oct., 1865). On the imprisonment of James Lovell, see Loring's Hundred Boston Orators, p. 33. Much of interest is found in the Memoir and letters of Captain W. Glanville Evelyn, from North America, 1774-1776, ed. by G. D. Scull, Oxford, privately printed, 1879. (Cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., 1879, p. 289.) The letters were reprinted in Scull's Evelyns in America (1881). Letters of Peter Oliver and others in P. O. Hutchinson's Diary and letters of Thomas Hutchinson (vol. i., 1884; vol. ii., 1886). The letters of John Andrews, in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., July, 1865, are scant in the period from June, 1775, to April, 1776. The passing of news in and out of Boston is illustrated in letters, edited by W. P. Upham, printed in the Essex Institute Hist. Coll. (July, 1876), vol. xiii. 153, etc. Letters addressed to Gardiner Greene are in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., June, 1873. Samuel Paine, Oct., 1775, in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1876. American Hist. Record, Dec., 1872. Andrew Eliot remained for pastoral duty in the town during the siege. His letters to friends without, April, 1775, to Feb., 1776, are in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xvi. 182, 288-306. Letters on the last days of the siege, in Almon's Remembrancer, iii. 106-8, quoted in the Evacuation Memorial, 175. Letters of Maj. Francis Hutcheson are in the Haldimand Papers (Calendar, p. 177).
A MS. orderly-book of Adjutant Waller is in Mass. Hist. Soc. Library. A fac-simile of the order for the attack at Bunker Hill is given from it in Mem. Hist. of Boston, iii.
The log-book of the British ship "Preston", lying in the harbor, April-Sept., 1775, is printed in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Aug., 1860.