Letter, 1804 Mar. 20, Boston, Mass., to "My dear Welles."

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Letter, 1804 Mar. 20, Boston, Mass., to "My dear Welles."

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Letter re details of relationship between John Rutledge, Jr., (1766-1819) and [physician Horace G.] Senter, noting Rutledge's suspicions that Senter had engaged in improper advances toward Rutledge's wife while the family was spending the summer in Connecticut, and the resulting duel in Savannah in which Senter was wounded in the leg and later died from lockjaw. Letter also criticizes the policies of the federal government, with brief mention of contemporary issues of Federalist and Republican politics; topics include Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, George Clinton, and the impeachments of New Hampshire Federal Judge John Pickering [who suffered from mental problems] and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Judge Samuel Chase [who was impeached by the U.S. House, although the Senate refused to remove him from office].

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