Story of Writing November 7, 2024

The first issue of the London Gazette is published, Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation is extended to slaves in the American colonies, abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy is shot and killed, women are granted suffrage in Colorado, and Montana elects Jeanette Rankin as the first woman in the U.S. Congress. Happy birthday to Albert Camus and Joni Mitchell - with a reading from "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes," by Arthur Conan Doyle.