Diary and reminiscences, 1857-1859.

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Diary and reminiscences, 1857-1859.

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Discusses his three and a half year missionary service in Massachusetts on behalf of the American and Foreign Christian Union, including visiting families, schools, and poor houses to distribute tracts and Bibles. He usually recorded the towns in which he stopped and the number of schools, students, and families visited (including their religious affiliation and ethnic background), and the number of Bibles and tracts distributed. The autibiographical narrative portion of the volume focuses upon his religious upbringing and his later life in Hopkinton, Mass., especially his involvement in the temperance movement and periodic religious revivals. Also includes genealogical information about the Morse family.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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