Cincinnati — Traveled from Portsmouth to Cincinnati on the steamboat American. Describes the effects of flooding along the river. “At one place we were hauled by persons from the top of a house that seemed to be in the midst of the river, with a barn & a few apple trees showing their tops near by.” Lodging with Mrs. Swan., 1847 Dec 21

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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.