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Thomas W. Dorr Collection (MSS 391)

Rhode Island Historical Society

121 Hope Street
Providence, RI 02906
Tel: 401-273-8107
Fax: 401-863-2093
Email: reference@rihs.org

Inventory

Series 1. Correspondence

Container Description Date
Folder 1 Thomas Dorr to Dr. Metcalf Marsh of Slatersville, R.I.
Contents Note: Photocopy, gift of Patrick Conley, #1980.11.12. Location of original unknown.
Physical Description Note:
1837 Jan 14
Folder 2 Thomas Dorr to Silas Weaver of East Greenwich, R.I.
1839 Aug 05
Folder 3 Franklin Pierce to Thomas Dorr
Physical Description Note:
1842 Dec 14
Folder 4 Thomas Dorr to Dr. Alexander F. Vache of New York City
Physical Description Note:
1846 Jan 17
Folder 5 Thomas Dorr to Elijah F. Purdy and others
Contents Note: Gift of George P. Wetmore, #1921.22.1
Physical Description Note:
1848 Jan 08
Folder 6 Thomas Dorr to Elijah F. Purdy and others
Contents Note: Transcription. Gift of George P. Wetmore, accession #1921.22.2
Physical Description Note:
1848 Jan 08
Folder 7 Thomas Dorr to Estwick Evans
Physical Description Note:
1848 Apr 12
Folder 8 Thomas Dorr to Nahum Capen
Physical Description Note:
1850 Sep 17
Folder 9 Thomas Dorr to George Turner
Physical Description Note:
1851 Apr 26

Series 2. Miscellaneous

Container Description Date
Folder 10 Private Journal of T.W.D.
Contents Note: Contains solely financial transactions with Samuel P. Crins & Co. 12 pp. plus loose sheet.
1847-1852
Folder 11 Items compiled from Dorr's personal scrapbook.
Contents Note: 1831-1832, 1839, 1851-1852, edited by unknown owner at later date. Includes notes in Dorr's hand, and many clippings of Dorr's letters to newspapers.
1831-1852
Folder 12 Scrapbook concerning the Dorr Rebellion, kept by unknown person
1842-1843
Folder 13 Petition from "Friends to the Constitution"
Contents Note: Petition with 67 signatures, none Dorr's.
1842 Feb
Folder 14 Col. Joseph Benedict Arnold to Members of the Pawtuxet Artillery Company
Contents Note: Notice regarding "the clandestine admission of a number of the very fag ends of society".
1842 Jun 04
Folder 15 William J. Harris of Gloucester to William M. Bailey
Contents Note: Correspondence listing the members of the expedition to locate Dorr in Stonington, Connecticut in 1842. Also, an anonymous list of the same expedition, giving several additional names.
1888 Feb 25