The friendship between Haller and Johann Stephan Pütter, an eminent professor of law at the University of Göttingen, dates from 1747. Their correspondence began six years later, after Haller’s return to Switzerland, and ended in 1777. Fourteen of the surviving forty letters are from Pütter, including one to Haller’s wife. Göttingen is a prominent subject in most of them: changes at the university, the impact of the Seven Years’ War, and inquiries about conditions in the town when Haller was considering a return and, afterward, when he recommended many young men who were preparing to study there. Pütter tells of his life as tutor to a future duke in Gotha, and Haller describes his various roles in the public affairs of Bern. Personal and familial news appears more regularly here than in Haller’s exchanges with other professors in Göttingen.

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