[Manuscript book of notes on various topics. ca. 1880].

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[Manuscript book of notes on various topics. ca. 1880].

First section of this notebook records part of a speech delivered at the Watervliet, N.Y. Shaker community on creation and regeneration; the second and third sections concern vegetarianism. These topics are the kinds that Frederick William Evans considered in his pamphlets.

[40] p. ; 21 cm.

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