FACSIMILES OF PART OF THE FIRST

PAGE AND OF THE FOURTH PAGE OF
ONE OF THE LETTERS FROM THOMAS
POWNALL TO DR. COOPER OF BOSTON,
FEBRUARY 13, 1769.

These, like that which is placed before them, are only specimens. They are reproduced from one of the two long letters referred to in the chapter on Junius. Characters which resemble those in the preceding letter of Francis are marked in the same way below the line of writing to facilitate comparison; this can only be done so far as the material in the Francis letter permits. If the result of comparison is that the characters are considered identical in each case, formed in the same way and written by the same person, we have in the body of these Cooper letters the natural handwriting of Francis, who did not here trouble to disguise it. The signature will be seen to be that of Pownall as in his holographs here reproduced. If Francis wrote the Cooper letters for Pownall to sign, it may be inferred that when he wrote the Junius series at the same period he did so from the dictation or drafts of Pownall, who was his employer on both occasions and the real author.

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