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Lengthy letter to parents, discussing life as a Moravian missionary in Jamaica. See also Augusta ALS to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wolle, February 25, 1845.

Located in Oversize Manuscripts.

Letter on current events, particularly updates on family and friends, including the death of a woman from "nervous brain fever." Describes how the Adventists are getting along in Providence. "The Second Advent folks are getting along quite well have some persicution some malicious person took up Brother Everet and put him in jail he prayed and sung all night some of the prisoners ware verry mad but he prayed untill they shut their mouths he has always been very strong and a peacible nice steady man they took him up for drinking and abusing his family which is a lie... he wont say one word in his own defence says the Lord will take care of him."

Possibly written by Nathaniel Glover Allen about his father, Wilkes Allen (1775-1845). Visiting his father, hopes for salvation, and emotions accompanying impending death. Father wished to be buried in Chelmsford, [Massachusetts], "the scene of his ministerial labors." Visits from friends and family, preaching at local churches, the shifts in his father's health and mental state. Describes their Thanksgiving, his father's symptoms, and doctors and reverends tending to him. Comments on his father's death bed, religion, final passing, and funeral. Quotes hymns, including one his father sang derived from the poem "The Dying Christian," and Isaac Watts's "Death and Burial of a Saint." Copies the hymn sung at his father's funeral.

His congregation will build a new church; he advocates the Gothic style. Comments on school, learning French. Includes a pencil drawing of a church.

Quarterly report to the American Home Missionary Society. Preaches multiple times on Sunday and notes people attending church for the first time in a long while. Mentions the presence of multiple religious perspectives and attempting to harmonize them. "Differences of doctrine & sentiment prevail still to a considerable extent. Old school & New school and Oberlin views all have their representatives in my church." Attempting to encourage better respect of the Sabbath's sanctity. Brief mention of anti-gambling legislation, believing it will "destroy two Nine Pin Alleys here." Discusses their Sunday school, lack of a Temperance Society, and the good work of the Bible Society. "...there are not less than 100 families in this township destitute of all religious books. Truly I am on Missionary ground." Remarks on a recent Quarterly Union meeting, his interest in receiving donated books from the Tract Society, his commission, and annual statistics.

Comments on the process of "dissolving the pastoral relation" and refusing ordination. Dislikes ministry employment that has a pre-set termination date, as it renders "the relation between a minister and his people a mere secular affair--so much pay for so much service." Worries that such arrangements "prevent permanency in the pastoral relation." Apologizes for the haste in which he wrote and the likelihood he misaddressed Rogers, as "you are a stranger to me I know not whether you are an ordained minister, a candidate or a layman."

Religious reflections. Giving "some information of the brethren in the Safety League on Bushcreek." Their religious society, a split from the local Presbyterian Church, is doing "tolerably good" despite small members. Heard from "malignants," or Presbyterian ministers, that "Mr. Gailey's members are nearly all leaving at the East." Requests information from Gailey on the state of their church. Wylie welcomes Gailey's intention to visit and asks him to answer Davis's questions.

Letter to Rockwood regarding his missionary work in India. Written on the same letter: Jane Rendall ALS to Helen M. Rockwood; Dindigul, [India], July 15, 1846. 3 pages. Letter to Rockwood regarding her arrival in India, describing the scenery, her activities, her missionary work, etc.

Requests an update on family affairs from her aunt Lucy as she has not heard directly from them in awhile. She provides an account of recent events in Springfield including the election of "good minister Mr Porter" to professorship at Yale. She laments his leaving and praises him as an exemplary man. [NOTE: Noah Porter III (1811-1892) was a minister at Springfield from 1843-1846 and was appointed professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy at Yale until he was made president of the University in 1871. He was president until 1886.]