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“They now begane to dispatch the ship away which brought them over, which lay tille aboute this time, or the begining of Aprill…”
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From the Middle — Chapter 4: Anno 1623, Second Part — Cushman's Letter and the Particulars
WILLIAM BRADFORD
Robert Cushman writes from London: no supply has been made to the colony all this while, people press to come far faster than money comes in, and he urges them to write earnestly to the Treasurer directing what persons should be sent — for their danger, he warns, lies in corrupt and naughty persons. The adventurers' general letter follows, and the chapter closes with the particulars and the ill-starred pinnace.
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What’s Inside
- Anno 1621–1625, in seven chapters — complete: 35,026 words, Bradford's own text exactly as he wrote it, closing in his own words: “…for seamen they had none.” Volume Three takes up the history at Anno 1626.
- 3 hours 23 minutes of narration — Governor William Bradford himself stands in golden light on the stage and reads his own history aloud, page by page, in a reading room you can follow with your eyes.
- The plates — the Mayflower Compact in Bradford's own hand (facsimile), Halsall's Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor (1882), and Weir's Embarkation of the Pilgrims (1843).
- The third book of the Mayflower line — behind it stand Book One, Mourt's Relation · The Mayflower Journal · 1622, and Volume One of the Plantation history, and ahead of Volumes Three–Five of the history, all at $79.
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This is the public-domain text of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation (Project Gutenberg transcription #24950), presented as a talking hologram book, with all modern editorial matter removed and Bradford's spelling untouched. The narration is a performed reading of that public-domain text, made for this edition. No portrait of Bradford painted from life survives, and the book says so plainly in its disclaimer, which stands first, before the book begins. Editor: Franklin Langston.
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