My dissertation, "Corresponding Republics," is a comparative project that looks at the influence of old regime epistolary practices on revolutionary organizing in the American, Dutch Patriot and French Revolutions.  The goals of the project are 1) to develop a new account of how pre-revolutionary epistolary habits shaped revolutionary correspondence networks and 2) to contribute, through intensive primary source research in multiple national contexts, to a new understanding of the divergences among the late eighteenth-century revolutions.  More specifically, I argue that leading patriots in each national context persisted in their old regime epistolary habits as they crafted new "public" revolutionary networks.  The tone, breadth, boundaries and even content of correspondence by the American Committees of Correspondence and the French Jacobin clubs reflected their creators' pre-revolutionary epistolary experience.  And these differences in "public" epistolarity, in turn, help to explain some of the well-known divergences in the organization, breadth, and success of the three Revolutions in question.