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8vo, 188pp, Bound in contemporary calf with chipped leather label, leaves toned but a very good copy. Sabin 207; Imprints 11931. "Hannah Adams (1755-1831), compiler of historical data, the first American woman who sought to support herself by her pen, is remembered also as one of the principals in a controversy with the geographer Jedidiah Morse which embittered relations between liberals and orthodox in the Unitarian controversy within the congregational churches of Massachusetts..." She wrote her Summary History of New England in 1799"[NAW]. The Morse/Adams controversy raged for almost 10 years and concerned competing school history books but also had to do with Morse's conservative Calvinism versus Adams' liberal sympathies. Blain notes: A history by Dr. Jedidiah Morse, 1804, being poised to damage both her Summary History of New England (1799) and a projected abridgement for `young persons' (pub. 1805), she said so, and the quarrel smoldered on into mutual printed accusation in 1814.