Terre Haute — Stays at Stuart’s public house in Terre Haute. Describes his unpleasant stay at Rev. McNutt’s house in Waveland. In Waveland, “Every body saw I was after money & they all looked sour.” At church he “presented the Tract cause & raised $12.” Later stayed with James McEwen. Crossed a swollen creek on horseback en route to Terre Haute., 1847 Jan 12

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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.