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to
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<forename type="first">Thomas</forename>
<forename type="middle">Wilson</forename>
<surname>Dorr</surname></persName>: an Electronic Transcription</title>
<title type="sub">
The
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<forename type="first">Thomas</forename>
<forename type="middle">Wilson</forename>
<surname>Dorr</surname>
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Letters Project
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Samuel Adams Dorr to TWD
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<persName ref="#samuel_a_dorr"><forename type="first">Samuel</forename> <forename type="middle">Adams</forename> <surname>Dorr</surname></persName>
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<surname>Landry</surname>
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<orgName ref="#dps">Providence College Digital Publishing Services</orgName>
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<addrLine>Box 1841</addrLine>
<addrLine>Providence College, Phillips Memorial Library</addrLine>
<addrLine>1 Cunningham Square</addrLine>
<addrLine>Providence, RI 02918</addrLine>
<addrLine>USA</addrLine>
<addrLine>url:mailto:dps@providence.edu</addrLine>
<addrLine>url:http://www.providence.edu/LIBRARY/dps/Pages/default.aspx</addrLine>
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<pubPlace>Providence, Rhode Island</pubPlace>
<date>2012</date>
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<forename type="first">Thomas</forename>
<forename type="middle">Wilson</forename>
<surname>Dorr</surname>
</persName>
Letters Project
</title>
<editor>Letters selected, edited, and transcribed from the original manuscripts by
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<roleName>Dr.</roleName>
<forename>Erik J.</forename>
<surname>Chaput</surname>
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and
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<forename>Russell</forename>
<surname>DeSimone</surname>
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with the assistance of
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<forename>Edward E.</forename>
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<forename type="first">Samuel</forename>
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<surname>Dorr</surname>
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to
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<forename type="first">Thomas</forename>
<forename type="middle">Wilson</forename>
<surname>Dorr</surname>
</persName>,
<date when="1820-03-17">17 Mar 1820</date>.
<persName ref="#sidney_s_smith">
<forename type="first">Sidney</forename>
<forename type="middle">Smith</forename>
<surname>Rider</surname>
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Collection,
<orgName ref="#hay">John Hay Library</orgName>
<orgName ref="#brown">Brown University</orgName>
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<forename type="first">Thomas</forename>
<forename type="middle">Wilson</forename>
<surname>Dorr</surname>
</persName>
Letters Project includes digital transcriptions of thirty letters from the Dorr
Correspondence files in the
<persName ref="#sidney_s_smith">
<forename>Sidney S.</forename>
<forename> Rider </forename>
</persName>
Collection at the <orgName ref="#hay">John Hay Library</orgName> (<orgName ref="#brown">Brown University</orgName>), the
<persName ref="#james_f_simmons">
<forename type="first">James</forename>
<forename type="middle">Fowler</forename>
<surname>Simmons</surname>
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Papers at the <orgName ref="#loc">Library of Congress</orgName>, the <orgName ref="#gli">Gilder Lehman Institute</orgName>,
and one letter from the private collection of
<persName ref="#richard_slaney">Richard Slaney</persName>.
The goal of the project is to further the digital exploration of
<placeName ref="#ri">Rhode Island</placeName>
History through the combination of traditional scholarly editing with cutting edge digital
technologies. These letters illustrate aspects of race, reform, antislavery and
proslavery politics, and, of course, the <name>Dorr Rebellion</name>. The
selection of letters was governed by the notion of what would work best in the
high school and college classroom, especially in terms of length and
readability.
The head editors (
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<surname>DeSimone</surname>
</persName>
and
<persName ref="#erik_j_chaput">
<surname>Chaput</surname>
</persName>
) also selected letters that had previously not been cited by historians of the
<name>Dorr Rebellion</name>. The project was funded in part by a grant from the
<orgName ref="#rich">Rhode Island Council for the Humanities</orgName>. </p>
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pertain to the <name>Dorr Rebellion</name> and its aftermath or the early life
of the rebellion’s leader
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<forename type="first">Thomas</forename>
<forename type="middle">Wilson</forename>
<surname>Dorr</surname>
</persName>.
In order to keep the number of letters selected for this project to a manageable
number the editors focused on
<persName ref="#thomas_wilson_dorr">
<surname>Dorr</surname>’s
</persName>
early life (<orgName ref="#phillips_exeter">Phillips Exeter Academy</orgName> and <orgName ref="#harvard">Harvard University</orgName>),
his early law career, his political career in the mid-1830s, and his emergence as the leader of the
reform movement that sought to revise <placeName ref="#ri">Rhode Island</placeName>'s
archaic governing structure.</p>
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<titlePart type="main">The Dorr Letters Project</titlePart>
<titlePart type="subtitle">Samuel Adams Dorr to Thomas Wilson Dorr:<lb />Electronic Transcription</titlePart>
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<div type="introduction" xml:id="intro" org="uniform" part="N" sample="complete"><head><title>Introduction</title></head>
<p>
This is the oldest letter in the <persName ref="#thomas_wilson_dorr"><forename type="first">Thomas</forename> <forename type="middle">Wilson</forename> <surname>Dorr</surname></persName> correspondence files
at the John Hay Library at Brown University.
In <date when="1820-03">March 1820</date>, <persName ref="#thomas_wilson_dorr"><forename>Thomas</forename> <surname>Dorr</surname></persName> was a 14-year-old
freshman at <orgName ref="#harvard">Harvard College</orgName>. <persName ref="#thomas_wilson_dorr"><surname>Dorr</surname></persName> enrolled at <orgName ref="#harvard">Harvard</orgName> after completing
three years at <orgName ref="#phillips_exeter">Phillips Exeter Academy</orgName> in <placeName ref="#nh">New Hampshire</placeName>.
<persName ref="#samuel_a_dorr"><forename type="first">Samuel</forename> <forename type="middle">Adams</forename> <surname>Dorr</surname></persName>
<date from="1775" to="1855">(1775-1855)</date>, an older brother of <persName ref="#thomas_wilson_dorr"><forename>Thomas</forename></persName>' father, <persName ref="#sullivan_dorr"><forename>Sullivan</forename> <surname>Dorr</surname></persName>,
was stationed in <placeName ref="#canton_china">Canton, China</placeName>, representing the merchant firm of <orgName type="partnerNames"><forename>J.</forename>
& <forename>J.</forename> <surname>Dorr</surname></orgName>.
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<dateline>
<lb/><placeName ref="#canton_china">Canton</placeName>
<date when="1820-03-17">17th March 1820</date>
</dateline>
<lb/><salute>My Dear Nephew,</salute>
</opener>
<p>Your kind letter under date <date when="1819-09-26">26th Sept.</date> last, by
<lb/>the <name>Washington</name> affords me great pleasure. You have long since com-
<lb/>menced your Collegiate life with <sic>with</sic> the most flattering prospects as
<lb/>I’m informed, the foundation, laid in part at <orgName ref="#phillips_exeter">Exeter</orgName>, you will find
<lb/>great advantage <sic>from</sic> during the two first years particularly, if not
<lb/>for the remainder of life. I need not recommend diligence to one
<lb/>who has afforded already so prominent an example of Industry –
<lb/>I need not say that I hope you will in all cases conform unequi-
<lb/>vocally to rules of College as well as the wishes of the Lecturers & instruct-
<lb/>ors because I presume you made that resolution before you entered
<lb/>college. Amongst the young men who compose the number of stu-
<lb/>dents, frequently there are restless spirits wont to give difficulty to
<lb/>the Governors of the Institution, who upon slight disgusts, are apt to raise
<lb/>tumults & effect combinations in direct hostility to their teachers & en-
<lb/>tirely subversive of the views with which they entered the Seminary. These
<lb/>my dear boy are to be avoided by all young men who value their honour,
<lb/>peace or happiness. You have commenced a life of study & will of course
<lb/>pursue it with your accustomed endeavor, the reward you will certainly
<lb/>obtain in due time in the respectability & influence attached to a man
<lb/>of Literature & in the internal satisfaction derived from a cultivated & well
<lb/>stored mind, affording an inexhaustible treasure for contentment and
<lb/>happiness. Please bear in mind the sons of <orgName ref="#harvard">Harvard</orgName> must in some
<lb/>fact be considered as public property, & those selfish views of individual
<pb n="2" facs="/xtf/data/tei/bookreader/letter1/#page/2" />
<lb/>aggrandizement must give place to more elevated notions of public
<lb/>utility. Where shall we look for prominent men in Church & State <del rend="overstrike">but</del>
<lb/>if we do not find them issuing from the first literary institution of <placeName>America</placeName>
<lb/>numbers to fill the ranks of eminent men gone & falling into the
<lb/>shades of death. Could I again commence my career at college, how
<lb/>delightful, the prospect, by patient & unremitting exertions, to acquire
<lb/>a fund of knowledge, an extensive acquaintance, well confirmed hab-
<lb/>its & a fair prospect of future usefulness, if not excellence in the
<lb/>profession which I might select. I sometimes wish I could resume
<lb/>my youth & join you in your delightful pursuits, but that is
<lb/>forbidden, & time is not to be recalled. I could say many things my
<lb/>dear boy, but you will by your own ingeniousness obviate the necess-
<lb/>ity of any cautions or instructions touching your future views & conduct.
<lb/>And <persName ref="#ann_allen_dorr">Miss <forename>Ann</forename></persName> then has resolved upon becoming Roman, as young la-
<lb/>dies generally make rapid progress in literary acquisitiveness I shall expect a
<lb/>Latin Epistle from <persName ref="#ann_allen_dorr"><forename>Ann</forename></persName> at least 6 mo. before <persName ref="#allen_dorr"><forename>Allen</forename></persName>, who I’m confident
<lb/>when he gets roused will take great strides in his learning & become a
<lb/>most enterprising fellow. <persName ref="#mary_throop_dorr">Miss <forename type="first">Mary</forename> <forename type="middle">Throop</forename></persName> will <sic>will</sic> progress
<lb/>quietly & surely & our <persName ref="#sullivan_dorr"><forename>Sullivan</forename></persName> must do well in everything to <choice><orig>justi</orig><reg>justify</reg></choice>
<lb/>the expectations which all are led to place upon him ...
<lb/>I must now close not being quite well & request you to say to your Mamma
<lb/>that as I have not yet rec’d the preserves & I shall not give her the whole of
<lb/>my gratitude for her kindness but impose some future opportunity
<pb n="3" facs="/xtf/data/tei/bookreader/letter1/#page/3" />
<lb/>for that purpose. Make my <damage agent="tear"><gap/></damage> remembrance to your good
<lb/>mother, your father & all the <damage agent="tear"><gap/></damage> folks & believe me as ever
<lb/>your sincere friend & uncle.
</p>
<closer>
<lb/><signed><persName ref="#samuel_a_dorr"><forename type="first">Samuel</forename> <forename type="middle" full="abb">A.</forename> <surname>Dorr</surname></persName></signed>
<lb/>Master <persName ref="#thomas_wilson_dorr"><forename type="first" full="abb">Tho’s</forename> <forename type="middle" full="abb">W.</forename> <surname>Dorr</surname></persName>
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<p>What advice does <persName ref="#samuel_a_dorr"><forename>Samuel</forename> <surname>Dorr</surname></persName> give his young and impressionable nephew and why was this advice important?</p>
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