The Correspondence of John Cotton (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

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John Cotton (1584-1652) was once a key figure within the English Puritan movement within the first half of the seventeenth century, a respected leader among his generation of emigrants from England to New England.

This volume collects all known surviving correspondence by and to Cotton. These 125 letters–more than 50 of which might be here published for the primary time–span the decades between 1621 and 1652, a period of serious activity and change within the Puritan movement and in English history. Now carefully edited, annotated, and contextualized, the letters chart the trajectory of Cotton’s career and revive various voices from the troubled times surrounding Charles I’s reign, including the ones of such prominent figures as Oliver Cromwell, Bishop John Williams, John Dod, and Thomas Hooker, in addition to many little-known persons who wrote to Cotton for advice and guidance.

Among the treasures of early Anglo-American history, these letters bring to life the leading Puritan intellectual of the generation of the Great Migration and illustrate the network of mutual enhance that nourished an intellectual and religious movement through difficult times.

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