Ripley, Ohio — Has spent the past three weeks reading and catching up on correspondence in Cincinnati. Traveled to Ripley on the steamboat New England. Describes Ripley. “Here is the great seat of the anti-slavery influence. The great centre of operations for underground railroads which lead to the confines of Canada, over which pass annually so many hundreds of miserable slaves, is here.” Mentions Rev. John Rankin, the famous leader of the abolition movement in Ohio. Preached three times yesterday., 1848 Mar 6

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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.