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Theron and Aspasio: or, A Series of Dialogues and Letters upon the
Most Important and Interesting Subjects, in three volumes by James Hervey,
London, 1755.
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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