Q: "Upham ’sCollection of Newspaper Extracts"

[Stephen Goranson]

Joel,
It's in British Library Newspapers. The name on the page is London
Evening-Post.
Perhaps Upham's collection is an unpublished archive holding.
Stephen

Quoting "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>:

> Stephen, in what database did you find my letter?  And is there a
> fuller title for the newspaper?  (I'm not finding anything by the
> name "London Evening Post" for 1755.  WorldCat confirms that there
> was such a beast that year, but only leads me to some works about
> letters from it!)
>
> At 6/26/2009 09:50 AM, Stephen Goranson wrote:
>
>> FWIW, there are also New Jersey archive-related mentions of "Upham[']s
>> Collection of English Newspaper Cuttings,"
>
> Yes that's one of the places I found that has the letter, although
> none of my three sources identified --
>
>> and the letter, or an extract of it,
>> dated April 18, 1755 was printed in London Evening Post (London, England),
>> Thursday, July 3 [to July 5], 1755; Issue 4314. p.1 col. 3.
>
> I had wondered, since Upham's Collection is sometimes called "English
> Newspaper Cuttings", whether it had in fact been published (? only)
> across the seas, since I hadn't been able to find it in EAN.
>
> Thanks,
> Joel
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