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.

Henry Wade Rogers

Dean of University of Michigan Law School, 1886-1891

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Henry St. John, gentleman, of "Flower of Hundreds," in the county of Prince George, Virginia. A tale of 1774-'75 ...

Published also under title: Bonnybel Vane.

Henry St. John, gentleman : of "Flower of Hundreds," in the county of Prince George, Virginia. A tale of 1774-'75 /

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On the study of the Greek and Latin languages : an introductory lecture, delivered in the University of London, November 1, 1831.

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The writings of Henry David Thoreau ...

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Bradshaw's railway manual, shareholders' guide and official directory.

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The electrical researches of the honourable Henry Cavendish, F.R.S. : written between 1771 and 1781, edited from the original manuscripts in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. /

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