A Reply to the Correspondent. Containing An Attempt to Point Out Certain Inconsistencies and Misrepresentations in that Publication; Together with Some Strictures Upon the Appendix, in a Familiar Letter to a Friend

Norwich, [CT]: Thomas Hubbard, 1794. First edition. Disbound. Removed from a larger volume else a very good copy, faint soiling, inked notation on title, bottom edge trimmed from last leaf, not affecting text.. 64 pp. 8vo. In reply to Zephaniah Swift's anonymously published "The correspondent," concerning the case of the Rev. Oliver Dodge of Pomfret, Conn. Welch is clearly on the side opposite Dodge, noting there are "affidavits swore that Dodge had stated he would marry "the ugliest creature that omnipotence could form, provided she was possessed of an interest of ten thousand pounds, or an independent fortune." Sabin 102523. Evans 28058. Trumbull 1606.