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- GLC#
- GLC03845.04-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 10 December 1800
- Author/Creator
- Pilsberry, Levi, 1771-1819
- Title
- to Joseph B. Varnum
- Place Written
- Winchendon, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 3 p. : address ;.
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Mentions visiting Varnum's home in Dracut, Massachusetts, but missing him since Varnum was in Congress at the time. Comments on the importance of education, both religious and civil. Discusses the growing strength of Republicanism, and asserts that the "success of the Christian Religion, depends much on the example and patronage of civil Rules." Inquires about the new city of Washington, D.C. Varnum was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1795-1811.
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