Letters of Sylvanus Cobb [manuscript], 1827-1867, bulk 1860-1867.

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Letters of Sylvanus Cobb [manuscript], 1827-1867, bulk 1860-1867.

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The papers consist of three letters from Cobb, in which he answers an autograph request; gives his blessing to an unidentified person; discusses selection and purchase of a desk; and gives a detailed account of his opium use, how it started, his attempt to break the habit, and eventual return to daily use. Cobb also comments on his family and mentions Drs. John Ware and Bowditch and the Portland, Plymouth, and Saco Road. In a fourth letter, Cobb's father, Sylvanus Cobb, Sr., discusses travel plans, including his visit to the congregation in Malden, Massachusetts, and his reasons for not telling the purpose of his visit to his Waterville, Maine parishioners. Thomas Whittemore is also a correspondent.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Cobb, Sylvanus, 1798-1866

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Sylvanus Cobb ( 1798-1866 ) was ordained as a Universalist minister in Winthrop, Maine, in 1821 . He held ministerial positions throughout Maine and Massachusetts and founded the Universalist newspaper The Christian Freeman and Family Visiter in 1839 in Waltham, Massachusetts . He also authored Compend of Divinity in 1846, a compilation of Universalist doctrine and beliefs, and New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: with explanatory notes and practical observations in 1864 . Cobb was...

Universalist Church (Waterville, Me.)

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Universalist Church in Waterville existed 1826-1954; in 1954 it merged with the Unitarian Church to form the Universalist-Unitarian Church. From the description of Records of the Universalist Church, Waterville, Me., 1833 Dec. 7-1924 July 1. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 166350594 ...

Whittemore, Thomas, 1800-1861

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This periodical, a successor of the Universalist magazine edited by Hosea Ballou, was the leading weekly of the Universalist denomination. Under Whittemore's editorship (1828-1861), it continued to cover doctrine, religion, and morality, publishing sermons, poetry, and articles on Universalist doctrine and on the progress of Universalism, along with news on missions and the activities of Universalist societies. During the 1830's and 1840's, contents were broadened to include more secular materia...

Universalist Church (Malden, Mass.)

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Cobb, Sylvanus, 1823-1887

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New England novelist. From the description of Letters of Sylvanus Cobb [manuscript], 1827-1867, bulk 1860-1867. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812312 Author of popular fiction and short stories. From the description of Letter : Norway, [Maine], to Robert [Bonner], 1864 Aug. 5. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28397942 ...