Who Wrote The Letters of Junius ?

They were written by Sir Philip Francis
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"St. Germain" <firewall DeleteThis @spam.aol.com> wrote in message
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 > They were written by Sir Philip Francis
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 > Thanks Germain, a 332 year >old literary mystery, and you new who it >was
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Diane wrote:

 > I'm selling Junius on ebay at the moment and a number of my
 > regular customers have e-mailed me with their thoughts regarding
 > the author of these letters. As some of you lot seem quite well read
 > I was wondering if you had a definitive answer. I have done some
 > research and all there seems to be is theories and conjecture.

I think theories and conjecture are all there is. Circumstantial evidence
points to Sir Philip Francis, but:
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"Joseph Parkes, author with Herman Merivale of the Memoirs of Sir Philip
Francis (1867), gives a list of more than forty persons who had been
supposed to be Junius. They are:

"Edmund Burke, Lord George Sackville, Lord Chatham, Colonel Barr, Hugh
Macaulay Boyd, Dr Butler, John Wilkes, Lord Chesterfield, Henry Flood,
~William Burke, Gibbon, W. E. Hamilton, Charles Lloyd, Charles Lee (general
in the American War of Independence), John. Roberts, George Grenville, James
Grenville, Lord Temple, Duke of Portland, William Greatrakes, Richard
Glover, Sir William Jones, James Hollis, Laughlin Maclean, Philip
Rosenhagen, Home Tooke, John Kent, Henry Grattan, Daniel Wray, Horace
Walpole, Alexander Wedderburn (Lord Loughborough), Dunning (Lord Ashburton),
Lieut.-General Sir R. Rich, Dr Philip Francis, a junto or committee of
writers who used a common name, Dc Lolme, Mrs Catherine Macaulay (173391),
Sir Philip Francis, Lord Littleton, Wolfram Cornwall and Gov. Thomas
Pownall."
(http://40.1911encyclopedia.org/J/JU/JUNIUS.htm)
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For a good online account of the evidence that Francis was certainly
involved with the letters, if not their actual author, see
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.bartleby.com/220/1725.html" target="_blank">http://www.bartleby.com/220/1725.html</a>

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