Apologize for the typo.  The original publication date for the Thompson
edition was 1873.

At 08:57 AM 7/2/2004, you wrote:
>There is now available a reprint of the shortened English edition (ed.
>Silvanus Phillips Thompson) of the standard work by Newton Peirce, The
>History of the Independent Order of Good Templars: complete up to the year
>1868 (1973; reprinted Kila, MT: Kessinger Pub., 2003; ISBN 0766157636).  I
>think that Peirce's original work may be available on microfilm.