St. Louis, Mo. — Traveled by stagecoach from Louisville to St. Louis. Mentions the town of Vincennes, Indiana: “a most miserable, dirty looking hole.” Describes an accident in their stagecoach due to the driver being drunk. Describes St. Louis as a “great bustling & wicked city. . . . a most rapidly growing city, almost unequalled in the history of modern civilization. It doubled its population once every ten years.”, 1846 Oct 29

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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.