Weston, Platte County, Mo. — Mentions Rev. E. Wright. Describes the state of the Indian tribes near Ft. Leavenworth. “An immense quantity of whisky is carried up every year into these Indian settlements and thousands by its direful effects are ruined for life. Some of them notwithstanding the annuities of government are most wretchedly poor and fearfully vicious.”, 1846 June 26

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The collection contains a typescript copy of a diary of Rev. Charles Peabody, May 21– September 11, 1846; a diary of Rev. Peabody, October 12, 1846–July 25, 1849, while he traveled in the West (mostly in St. Louis, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio) as an agent of the American Tract Society; and four travel diaries of Rev. Peabody, 1858-1859, recording his travels mostly in Europe. The collection also contains correspondence to Rev. Peabody, 1888-1889; many of these letters are from his Dartmouth College classmates.