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Letter From William Reid To John Muir, 1861 Mar 9, William Reid

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Buffalo, [Wis.], March 9th, 1861.

Dear friend John:

I expect you will be thinking that I have forgotten you altogether by being so long in answering your letter sent to me, but you must not think so, for I have not forgotten you, nor do I think I ever will forget you. But the reason I was so long in writing to you is, when I received your letter there was some talk about your coming home, and therefore I delayed writing for a week, after that I went away from home to work out so that I did not …

Letter From Mary Muir To John Muir, Ca. 1860, Mary Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Dear John

I am enjoying good health and hope you are enjoying the same. I have just come home from the Episcopal church none of the rest went for they thought it was to stormy but the minister did not come I suppose he thought it was to stormy for the people to come his name is Mr Hudson. this morning Anna and I went to the Methodist church and I expect to go again this evening his name is Mr. Springer, he is a very smart preacher. I went to the prayer meeting twice in the Methodist church and …

Documents Relating To The Ursuline Convent In Charlestown, George T. Curtis, Theodore Lyman, Charles G. Loring

Special Collections Miscellanea

An 1842 reprint containing two reports detailing the events surrounding the 1834 mob destruction of the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, MA. The first report discusses the public responsibility and duty of the State to protect its citizens and their property, regardless of social or religious affiliation, from unjust actions. The second report, produced by a select committee of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, discusses the merits of a petition for the Commonwealth to indemnify the Sisters of the Ursuline Order for their loss. Boston: Reprinted by Samuel N. Dickinson, 1842.

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A Narrative Of The Planting Of The Massachusets Colony Anno 1628. With The Lords Signal Presence The First Thirty Years. Also A Caution From New-Englands Apostle, The Great Cotton, How To Escape The Calamity, Which Might Befall Them Or Their Posterity. And Confirmed By The Evangelist Norton With Prognosticks From The Famous Dr. Owen. Concerning The Fate Of These Churches, And Animadversions Upon The Anger Of God, In Sending Of Evil Angels Among Us. Published By Old Planters, The Authors Of The Old Mens Tears., Joshua Scottow, Paul Royster (Transcribed & Edited By)

Joshua Scottow Papers

This edition of A Narrative of the Planting of the Massachusets Colony Anno 1628 is based on the first edition published in Boston in 1694. The spelling, orthography, punctuation, and capitalization of the original have been retained; only obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Scottow's Narrative is the sequel to Old Mens Tears for their Own Declensions, published three years earlier. It is an expansion of the argument that God and history are being unkind to New England because its churches have strayed from the strict practice of the unanimously-minded early founders of the Congregational Way. Scottow treats of …