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Introduces Daniel Pinckney Johnston, who is to enter the Academy. ; Transcription by Raymond Bouchard. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

Charles Parker introduces William Murray of Edisto Island, South Carolina, to Alden Partridge. ; Also see letter dated 17 May 1821. Transcription by Raymond Bouchard. Transcriptions may be subject to error.

A cross-cultural analysis of the management of religious pluralism in the early modern era can serve to contextualize and relativize our understanding of toleration in the Western world. To that end, this article compares policies and practices employed by governments in the Protestant Dutch Republic concerning Roman Catholics with those used by Sunni Ottoman authorities toward Christians, Jews, and Shi'ites in Arabic-speaking provinces. Despite important differences in approach, authorities in both societies managed their pluralistic environments by marginalizing minorities in various ways. Their practice served to protect the public religious order while also according minorities the privilege of private worship.

'Ramus and Reform: University and Church at the End of the Renaissance' by James Veazie Skalnik is reviewed.