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Dear Papa, Dear Charley
The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, with Sundry Observations on Bastardy, Child-Rearing, Romance,Matrimony, Commerce, Tobacco, Slavery, and the Politics of Revolutionary America

Ronald Hoffman

Sally D. Mason

Eleanor Darcy

Cloth ISBN 0-8078-2649-9 $100.00
Paper ISBN $0.00

Copyright 2001 by The University of North Carolina Press

An Award-Winning Book
  Maryland Historical Society Book Prize
  J. Franklin Jameson Award of the AHA (2007)

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“Simply put, Dear Papa, Dear Charley is a splendid collection of letters that has much to tell us about the extraordinary Carroll family of Maryland. . . . At its most human and basic level, it is the moving account of a family’s successes and failures over a period of more than five decades. As American history, it is an extraordinary panorama of the nation’s politics, society, and economics at the founding. These volumes are a gem!”

--Barbara B. Oberg


“The editors have opened up an exciting new vista on the American Revolutionary era. These superbly edited volumes illuminate, in fascinating detail, the complex and compelling connections between the history of an extraordinary family and the epochal changes that transformed Maryland and the Anglo-American world. The publication of this rich and revealing documentary edition is cause for celebration.”

--Peter S. Onuf