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Letter of the Hon. Samuel Dexter.
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 43848. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dexter, Samuel, 1761-1816.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 43848.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bartlett, Josiah, 1759-1820.
- Bartlett, Josiah.
- Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.
- Morse, Jedidiah.
- Robison, John, 1739-1805. Proofs of a conspiracy against all the religions and governments of Europe, carried on in the secret meetings of Freemasons.
- Robison, John.
- Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Massachusetts.
- Freemasons.
- Freemasonry--Controversial literature.
- Freemasonry.
- Illuminati.
- Genre:
- Controversial literature.
- Physical Description:
- 4 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston] : [publisher not identified], [1830]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- "This letter, written in 1798 by Samuel Dexter (but not published at the time), was a response to two letters from Josiah Bartlett, grand master of Massachusetts, published in the American Mercury and palladium. Bartlett had criticized Jedidiah Morse's warnings about Illuminism. According to the Proceedings of the 1830 U.S. Anti-Masonic Convention (see no. 3426), 67, Bartlett intervened to keep Dexter's response from being published. These same anti-Masonic proceedings state that Dexter's response 'has recently been discovered among the papers of the late Dr. Morse, and has since been published.' ... There are 2 states of this entry: one with the bottom half of p. 4 blank; the other with an 1816 note from the Boston Centinel." Cf. Walgren, K.L. Freemasonry, anti-masonry and illuminism in the United States, 1734-1850, a bibliography, no. 3285.
- Caption title.
- Erroneously dated [1818?] in Shaw & Shoemaker; dated [183-?] by the Library of Congress in NUC pre-1956.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 43848).
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