Princeton — Describes the town of Princeton. “This division of religious sentiment in the great curse of the west.” Visits with Rev. Owen Lovejoy, brother of the murdered Elijah P. Lovejoy and an ardent abolitionist. “It will take Southern Illinois & Southern Indiana 50 years to throw off the incubus of the direful influences of slavery which has been pressing upon them.”, 1847 June 28

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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.