From Monday April 17, to Monday April 24, 1704. "Boston: Printed by B. Green, and sold by Nicholas Boone, at his shop near the old meeting-house." [Illustration: The Boston News-Letter.] John Campbell, a Scotchman, bookseller and postmaster, was the proprietor of the paper. It was printed on a half-sheet, pot paper, and was to be continued weekly, "Published by authority." Among the contents was an article from the "London Flying Post," containing news from Scotland, "concerning the present danger of the kingdom and the Protestant Religion," "Papists swarm the nation," &c.; also extracts from the London papers, and four paragraphs of marine news. Advertisements inserted "at a reasonable rate from twopence to five shillings." On the same day that the paper was issued Judge Sewall notes in his diary that he went over to Cambridge, and gave Mr. Willard, president of the College, "the first News-Letter that was ever carried over the river." The second issue of the paper, No. 2, was on a whole sheet of pot paper, the last page blank. In the fifth number Boone's name was left out, and the paper was sold at the post-office. To No. 192, the paper was printed on a half-sheet, excepting the second issue. Green printed the paper for Campbell, until Nov. 3, 1707, after which it was printed by John Allen, in Pudding Lane, near the post-office, and there to be sold; and Allen printed it four years to No. 390. On the day that number was published, Oct. 2, 1711, the post-office and printing-office were burnt; and the following week it was again printed by Green, in Newbury Street, and he continued to print it until October, 1715. In 1719, Mr. Campbell tried the experiment of printing a whole sheet, instead of a half sheet, every other week, but this did not pay very well; and in addition to this difficulty, he lost the office of postmaster in December of that year. The new postmaster also printed a paper (Gazette) and this led to the first newspaper war in the country, but which did not last long, and terminated without much damage.