Mathew Wittmann should be congratulated for his excellent article, “Lottery Mania in Colonial America”. I was glad to see it reprinted in The E-Sylum. Unfortunately, there is no modern publication covering the colonial period.

There is one further publication of interest: “Colonial Lotteries in America” by Georgette Heeney, 69 pp., (1910) [Reprint from the collections of the University of California Libraries]. This was a Master of Letters Thesis submitted by Ms. Heeney to the Berkeley Faculty of the University of California. It gives a brief history of British lotteries and then goes into the American Colonial lotteries giving details such as the preparation of various tickets and the differentiation of official and private lotteries. Unfortunately, there are no illustrations. I purchased a copy from Amazon.com.