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The Occom Circle Project is a digital edition of letters from and to Samson Occom (1727-1792), with other of his works. The documents in question are all housed in Dartmouth College's Rauner Special Collections Library. Occom was a Mohegan Indian, intertribal leader, public intellectual, and the most important Indian writer in North America in the 18th century.
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I am very glad of embracing
every
with you, though in a silent Language.—
But I had much rather
Dear
Sr.
you,
hearty
having
only I think it is too much
confinement:
I want to travel
with Mankind. For I don't see, as I am likely
anything
Duty to
Children,
&
And
P.S. Please to
this broken Letter.}
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