Title
Mingling Souls Upon Paper: An Eighteenthcentury Love Story,Used
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November 3, 1774, Gloucester, Massachusetts When John Murray entered the Sargents best parlor on that chilly November day, he looked forward to greeting his host, Winthrop Sargent, and warming himself by the fire as they discussed Universalist theology. As a tireless and popular preacher of universal salvation since he had first sailed for the British colonies in 1770, John expected his reception to resemble dozens of earlier such encounters. But this meeting was different because here, in Gloucester, he met Mr. Sargents daughter. Judith Sargent Stevens was twentythree years old, lovely, intellectually curious, and devoted to her chosen faith, Universalism. John was a robust thirtythree, a man whose charismatic presence and outgoing personality dominated the room.But Judith was married, and any thought of a romance with John was out of the question. Instead, Judith hoped they could surely, and with the strictest propriety, mingle souls upon paper by writing to each other. While few of Johns personal letters are known to exist, Judith handcopied approximately 5,000 of her letters into twenty letter books that were discovered in the library of a former Mississippi plantation. Many of her letters are reprinted here for the first time.The letters in Mingling Souls Upon Paper are Judiths words. They trace her fourteenyear friendship with John, their controversial twentysevenyear marriage, and their lives together as husband and wife when John was the choice of her heart and she was his ever devoted wife. They chronicle Judiths blossoming career as the most important female essayist in eighteenthcentury America, and Johns as the founder of organized American Universalism. Finally, they record Johns debilitating illness and death, and Judiths final days without him. All together, the letters cover fortyfour years of personal and public lives. Through Judith Sargent Murrays letters, Bonnie Hurd Smith, herself a distant cousin of Judiths, skillfully brings to life two extraordinary eighteenthcentury individuals whose love story is timeless.
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