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Back in 1983 I found a letter that had recently been given to the Canton Vaud archive that was unknown to Gibbon scholars. What is interesting about the letter are the insights it provides into the intellectual influences upon the historian.
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This page is a summary of: Edward Gibbon: A new letter of 1789, Journal of Religious History, December 1984, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9809.1984.tb00196.x.
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