Letter : Boston, to an unidentified recipient, 1704 Oct 3.

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Letter : Boston, to an unidentified recipient, 1704 Oct 3.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702148280

Autograph manuscript letter, written in an unidentified hand and signed by Increase Mather. The letter is addressed to "Madame," possibly a relation of "Lord Southerland," and discusses the state of the Massachusetts colony.

1 item (2 p.) ; 22 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8018485

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Mather, Increase, 1639-1723

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"Increase Mather, the youngest son of the Reverend Richard Mather of Dorchester, and the father of Cotton Mather, has been described as the 'foremost American Puritan' of his generation. Teacher of the Second Church of Boston for more than fifty years, President of Harvard College from 1685 to 1701, agent for Massachusetts Bay in England to request the return of the Charter, and the author of approximately 175 books, pamphlets, prefaces and printed sermons, Mather was intimately involved in poli...