Terre Haute — Visits a German settlement, accompanied by Schaffer. “Really these Germans exceed all I have ever seen among the Hoosiers or Suckers for filth & shabbiness. The women with their wooden shoes, the men with their pipes in their mouths & a greesy cap on the top of the head present humanity in a new phase from any thing I ever saw before.” Rode to Carlisle where he stayed with Rev. Thompson. Rode to Merom where he stayed with Rev. Crawford. “Merom . . . is the meanest, dirtiest, most dilapidated old shell of a town I ever saw.” Continued by horseback to Terre Haute., 1848 Jan 13

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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.