Mentions Mr. Marks, the revivalist Mr. Foote, and a young preacher Mr. Meer. Visited the site of Dr. Nelson’s Mission Institute near Quincy, accompanied by Robert Tilson. Describes Dr. Nelson’s surviving family members. “About the time of [Dr. Nelson’s] death, & while he was too far gone to know what was going on, the old woman & children kidnapped & sold to a Southern slave driver a negro whom the Dr. had emancipated years before!”, 1847 July 14

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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.