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1852 May 31 . T. W. Brumagin ALS to "Sister"; Biblical Institute, [Concord, New Hampshire].

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Box 2
Abstract:
Glad her sister is "tending school." Gives advice on exercise regime to counter consumption, believing it plagues women "because they are shut up in the house inhaleing impure air and what is worse is they shut the lungs up between sticks or a substitute whalebones and then have thier [sic] dresses so tight… their lungs are so contracted that they can get in little bit of air enough for a mouse and then they will faint & wonder what is the mater is. It is nothing less than suicide and when they die their friends will lay it to God." Visited Boston and provides description of the city, touring a Man-of-War ship that served in the Mexican-American War, seeing the Medical College and where Dr. George Parkman was murdered, meeting a mathematician, and attending the General Conference and seeing "all the great men of God." Advocates for children playing outside and getting dirty.
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4 pages

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