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John Dickinson authored a series of pamphlets whose content helped persuade many American colonist leaders to separate from Great Britain.

His arguments were of sufficient merit to eventually earn him a role as one of America’s founding fathers; as based upon a capability to mobilize people in a fashion which is similar to that which took place about ninety years later when the South decided to succeed from the Union.

Dickinson’s mainstream notoriety traces back to writings which began circulating in 1764, and climaxed in 1775 when he critiqued Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms.

By 1808, Jefferson wrote that John Dickinson was “among the first of the advocates for the rights of his country when assailed by Great Britain” and “one of the great worthies of the revolution.” 

And now it is alleged that out of all Americans, John Dickinson was “rivaled in reputation only by Benjamin Franklin before 1776”

Unfortunately, very few original examples of Dickinson’s pamphlets have survived to date, despite their marked influence upon society; whereby only a scant number of library holdings are noted as follows:

Serving as a barometer on such rarities, the following chart presents a comparison with respect to current library holdings of other very famous works: