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Letters of Peter Plymley to My Brother Abraham Who Lives in the Country

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    …the first of several famous Letters of Peter Plymley to My Brother Abraham Who Lives in the Country, attacking what he saw as Protestant ignorance, obscurantism, and bigotry. Its success was immediate, and it was followed by four more letters published in 1807 and five in 1808.

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