Dennie-Vose papers, 1788-1897.

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Dennie-Vose papers, 1788-1897.

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Letters of Joseph Dennie, editor and intellectual, and Roger Vose, Congressman from New Hampshire, and correspondence between Samuel Green and Thomas Peck relating to the publication of Dennie's letters. Dennie's and Vose's letters record their daily lives during the year that Dennie, expelled from Harvard, spent at Groton, Mass. while Vose continued his studies at Harvard. Vose and Dennie wrote about Harvard students, faculty, and events, and also discussed love, marriage, friendship, and potential occupations. They kept one another informed about their respective studies and engaged in extensive intellectual debates, including a debate over the merits of British philosophers James Beattie and David Hume.

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