When was it published?

August 8, 1771 in The Massachusetts Spy

Letter to Editor August 8, 1771

The Massachusetts Spy

Q: What entities or persons were involved?

I. Thomas., Mr. Richard Draper.

Q: What keywords are associated?

Richard Draper, I Thomas, Newspaper Envy, Private Resentment, Personal Squabbles

Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

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What is this article about?

I. Thomas writes to Richard Draper, criticizing his newspaper for promoting envy and resentment, and declines to contribute inflammatory content, opting instead for more agreeable entertainment over their disputes.

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To Mr. Richard Draper.

Recollecting Sir!

If your customers are satisfied to maintain a weekly news-paper, sacred to the ebullitions of your envy and private resentment, I have nothing to say in the affair. But though I might perfectly equal you in random invective, I have not the ambition to conceit my performances would add any thing considerable to the entertainment of my generous encouragers; whom I wish to divert in a much more agreeable manner, than by any thing which can arise from the uninteresting squabbles of Mr. R. Draper, and

I. THOMAS.

What sub-type of article is it?

Provocative Satirical

What keywords are associated?

Richard Draper I Thomas Newspaper Envy Private Resentment Personal Squabbles

What entities or persons were involved?

I. Thomas. Mr. Richard Draper.

Letter to Editor Details

Author

I. Thomas.

Recipient

Mr. Richard Draper.

Main Argument

the writer declines to contribute random invective to draper's newspaper, which he views as filled with envy and private resentment, preferring to entertain readers in a more agreeable manner rather than engaging in their personal squabbles.

Notable Details

Ebullitions Of Your Envy And Private Resentment Random Invective Uninteresting Squabbles