The Thomas Wilson Dorr Prison correspondence highlights the previously unexamined letters between Dorr and his beloved mother Lydia Dorr. The letters, written on scraps of paper, were all composed while Dorr was in the state prison in Providence (1844-45). Of particular note in the collection is the discussion of the 1844 presidential election, along with the efforts of New York city labor radicals and Rhode Island women to see Dorr liberated.

To learn more about Thomas Dorr's term in prison, read this contextual essay by Dr. Erik Chaput.

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