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                    and
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                        <surname>Dorr</surname></persName>: an Electronic Transcription</title>
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                    The 
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                        <forename type="middle">Wilson</forename>
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                    Letters Project
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                    Lydia Dorr and Sullivan Dorr to TWD
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                    <persName ref="#lydia_dorr"><forename>Lydia</forename> <surname>Dorr</surname></persName> And <persName ref="#sullivan_dorr"><forename>Sullivan</forename> <surname>Dorr</surname></persName>
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                <publisher><name>Providence College Digital Publishing Services</name>,
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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>
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                <pubPlace>Providence, Rhode Island</pubPlace>
                <date>2012</date>
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                        <forename type="middle">Wilson</forename>
                        <surname>Dorr</surname>
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                    Letters Project
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                <editor>Letters selected, edited, and transcribed from the original manuscripts by
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                    , <date when="1842-04-08">08 April 1842</date>.  
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                <p>The <persName ref="#thomas_wilson_dorr"><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> </persName> Papers at the <orgName ref="#loc">Library of Congress</orgName>, the <orgName ref="#gli">Gilder Lehrman Institute</orgName>, and one letter from the private collection of <persName ref="#richard_slaney"><forename type="first">Richard</forename> <surname>Slaney</surname></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 <ref target="#dorr_rebellion">Dorr Rebellion</ref>. 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 (<persName ref="#russell_desimone"><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 <ref target="#dorr_rebellion">Dorr Rebellion</ref>.  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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                <titlePart type="main">The Dorr Letters Project</titlePart>
                <titlePart type="subtitle">Lydia Dorr and Sullivan Dorr to Thomas Wilson Dorr:<lb />Electronic Transcription</titlePart>
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                    This is the only letter in the Dorr correspondence files signed by both <persName ref="#sullivan_dorr"><forename>Sullivan</forename></persName> (<date when="1778">1778</date>-<date when="1858">1858</date>) and <persName ref="#lydia_dorr"><forename>Lydia</forename> <surname>Dorr</surname></persName> (<date when="1782">1782</date>-<date when="1859">1859</date>). 
                    In this letter, <persName ref="#thomas_wilson_dorr"><forename>Thomas</forename> <surname>Dorr</surname></persName>'s parents beseech him to stop all proceedings to establish the <name>People's Constitution</name>. 
                    <persName ref="#sullivan_dorr"><forename>Sullivan</forename></persName> and <persName ref="#lydia_dorr"><forename>Lydia</forename></persName> had just learned that their son had agreed to run for governor in the first election under the <name>People's Constitution</name>. 
                    The election was scheduled to take place <date when="1842-04-18">April 18, 1842</date>.
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                        <lb/><placeName ref="#providence_ri">Providence </placeName><metamark place="bottom">&#x02C6;</metamark><del rend="overstrike" cert="high">March</del>
                        <date when="1842-04-08">April 8, 1842</date>
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                    We hear with great pain that you are about publishing a prox at the<lb/> head of which you are named for Governor of this state which is a<lb/> violation of the lawful authority of the State. 
                    It grieves us to the heart to<lb/> know that a son of ours arrived at so mature an age and so well versed<lb/> in the laws of his Country should be a participant in acts calculated to<lb/> bring the state into destruction, 
                    arouse passions which you cannot allay<lb/> and which God forbid produce civil strife attended with bloodshed and<lb/> murder. We beseech you. 
                    We pray <metamark place="bottom">&#x02C6;</metamark> <add place="above">you</add> to pause before you pass the Rubicon<lb/> and become engulfed in political criminal degradation, where our feeble prayers will not avail to save you from disgrace and ruin.<lb/>
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                <p>
                    We again beg entreat and pray you to retire from the strife you are<lb/> inciting, for the law must prevail or all government is at an end.<lb/>
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                <p>
                    If your heart is sensible to the parental anguish we have and now<lb/> suffer, we pray our Heavenly Father will vouchsafe and awaken in yours<lb/> a corresponding feeling for our sufferings and influence
                    you to renounce<lb/> the course you are pursuing and restore us to a peace of mind which<lb/> has for a long time <del rend="overstrike" cert="high">has</del> been a stranger to us.<lb/>
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                    May God in his infinite mercy prompt you to a decision which<lb/> <pb n="2" facs="/xtf/data/tei/bookreader/letter12/#page/2"/>
                    only can restore you to the good opinion of your friends and fellow<lb/> citizens whose esteem is worth the cultivation and preserve our grey hairs<lb/> from that shame and disgrace which will attend forever if successful<lb/> your present course and hurry us sorrowing to the grave.<lb/>
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                    <lb/><salute>Your affectionate parents and best friends, </salute>
                    <lb/><signed><persName ref="#sullivan_dorr"><emph rend="underline"><forename>Sullivan</forename> <surname>Dorr</surname></emph></persName></signed>
                    <lb/><signed><persName ref="#lydia_dorr"><forename>Lydia</forename> <surname>Dorr</surname></persName></signed>
                    <lb/>To <persName ref="#thomas_wilson_dorr"><forename>Thomas</forename> <forename type="middle" full="init">W.</forename> <surname>Dorr</surname> <roleName type="honorific" full="abb">Esq.</roleName></persName>
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                <p>How would you characterize <persName ref="#sullivan_dorr"><forename>Sullivan</forename></persName>’s and <persName ref="#lydia_dorr"><forename>Lydia</forename></persName>'s feelings regarding their oldest son's actions in 1841-42?</p>
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