Madison, Indiana — Takes the steamboat Ben Franklin to Madison, Indiana. Stopping at the house of Rev. H. Little, agent of the Am. Home Mis. Soc’y [American Home Missionary Society?]. Comments on Little’s children. On the boat he met a young Virginian from the Kanawha River country who had property invested in manufacturing. The Virginian owned many slaves, yet admitted the evils of slavery and favored the idea of sending the slaves to Mexico., 1846 Dec 9

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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.