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Series: 5 Y (Volume 5)
: A large volume entitled by Hinde as “Sketch Book-1839.” Diary entries, February 6, 1839 - April 16, 1840, are interspersed with writings, including numerous articles intended for publication. A series of eleven “Pioneer Letters” and a series of eight “Memoirs of the West” give not only historical accounts but also Hinde's personal recollections of the West and the pioneers he had known in the areas surrounding Point Pleasant, Wheeling, Boonesborough, and St. Louis beginning in his boyhood. Drafts of a few outgoing letters he copied into this volume include one to an unidentified correspondent on abolitionism, and another (1839) to Governor Thomas Carlin of Illinois on internal improvement legislation. A few annotations were made in 1844. An index by Hinde is at the rear of the book.
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