Letters from Benjamin Welles to John Henry Tudor, 1799-1801

Benjamin Welles wrote these six letters to his friend and classmate, John Henry Tudor, between 1799 and 1801. Four of the letters are dated, and the dates of the other two can be deduced from their contents. Welles wrote Tudor four times in September 1799, at the onset of their senior year at Harvard, in an attempt to clear up hurt feelings and false rumors that he believed had caused a chill in their friendship. The cause of the rift is never fully explained, though Welles alludes to "a viper" and "villainous hypocrite" who apparently spread rumors and fueled discord between the two friends. In one letter, Welles asserts that "College is a rascal's Elysium - or the feeling man's hell." In another he writes: "College, Tudor, is a furnace to the phlegmatic, & a Greenland to thee feeling man; it has an atmosphere which breathes contagion to the soul [...] Villains fatten here. College is the embryo of hell." Whatever their discord, the wounds were apparently eventually healed; in a letter written June 26, 1800, Welles writes to ask Tudor about his impending speech at Commencement exercises. In an October 29, 1801 letter, Welles writes to Tudor in Philadelphia (where he appears to have traveled in attempts to recover his failing health) and expresses strong wishes for his friend's recovery and return to Boston. This letter also contains news of their classmate Washington Allston's meeting with painters Henry Fuseli and Benjamin West.

Franklin House, Ann Arbor

Located at the northwest corner of Huron and Main Streets. Publication information: Philadelphia : Bechler, Wenig & Co., 1856

Lettres de M, [!] Mesmer : à Messieurs les auteurs du Journal de Paris, et à M. Franklin.

Concerning animal magnetism; the letter to the Journal de Paris is dated Aug. 20, 1784.

El ostracismo de los Carreras. Los jenerales José Miguel i Juan José i el coronel Luis Carrera. Episodio de la independencia de Sud-America, por Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna.

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Oeuvres de M. Franklin ... /

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Oeuvres de M. Franklin ... /

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Some descriptions of the battles in which the commands of Gen. John B. Sanborn, of St. Paul, Minnesota, participated in the departments of Tennessee and Missouri during the rebellion of 1861-65.

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Méthode pour étudier la langue sanscrite /

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Annuaire des faits : résumé universel chronologique et alphabétique des événements de 1861, 1862, 1863 /

Contiene: Tom.1: 1er Année - Tom.2: 2e Année - Tom.3: 3e Année.

Franklin Pierce papers [microform]

Calendar published by the Library of Congress in 1917.

The writings of Henry David Thoreau ...

[v. 1] A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers.--[v. 2] Walden.--[v. 3] The Maine woods.--[v. 4] Cape Cod and Miscellanies.--[v. 5] Excursions and Poems.--v. 6. Familiar letters, ed. by F. B. Sanborn. Enl. ed.--[v. 7-20] Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861.

Argument of Franklin B. Gowen before the Judiciary committee of the Senate of Pennsylvania, on behalf of the railroad and mining interests of Pennsylvania, March 30th, 1871.

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El ostracismo de los Carreras. Los jenerales José Miguel i Juan José i el coronel Luis Carrera. Episodio de la independencia de Sud-America, por Benjamin Vicuña Mackenna.

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