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The Annotated Newspapers of Harbottle Dorr, Jr.

Boston merchant Harbottle Dorr, Jr. (1730-1794) was a noted merchant and member of the Sons of Liberty. He was also an avid newspaper reader. Beginning in 1765, Dorr spent more than a dozen years purchasing newspapers, writing comments in margins, inserting reference marks in articles, and assembling his own indexes. His papers of interest included the Boston Evening-Post, the Boston-Gazette, and the Boston Weekly News-Letter. This remarkable digital collection has been put together by the Massachusetts Historical Society in order to bring together these items for historians as well as the general public. Visitors can learn about Dorr and his process via the About the Website area and then move on to browse through the volumes at their leisure. The site is rounded out by the For Further Reading area, which features online news articles and essays about this most fascinating collection.
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