New York — “I look up to my Heavenly Father with gratitude who has preserved me amid all my perils. I have traveled since I left N. York 8,426 miles. I have been on nearly 20 different Steamboats, and have never met with the slightest accident. I have never seen a day of serious indisposition, and all my journeys have been as pleasant as could in the circumstances of the case, be expected. I have learned much of the world — have seen much of the various phases of society — have beheld suffering and poverty as wealth and affluence, and have made myself sick of human nature and human institutions. . . .”, 1846 Sept 11

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From the Collection:

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.