Fairfield, Iowa — Visited Collinsville with Shepard Wells. Traveled by steamboat Ocean Wave to Quincy, Illinois, where he visited Robert Tillson. Traveled on the steamboat Kate Kearney to Keokuk, and thence to Montrose. Visited Nauvoo, Illinois. Includes lengthy account of the Mormon temple, accompanied by two sketches. “We called on the widow of the celebrated Joe Smith [Joseph Smith], who had been recently been married to a Mr. Bridamore[?]. She still lives in the house which was occupied by her late husband.”, 1848 June 2

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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.