Series: 34 Y (Volume 34)
Scope and Content Note: Dated reflections, April 29, 1833 - January 14, 1837, intermingled with copies of letters to John Bailhache and other newspaper and periodical editors. Although many of the entries are religious in content, there are writings on other topics: the cholera epidemic of 1833, with biographies of two victims, Hinde's sister Mrs. Anne Winston Hinde Southgate (Mrs. Richard Southgate) (1783-1833) and Mrs. Eliza Doddridge Recoy Collins (Mrs. David Collins) (circa 1800-1833); a guide and hints for western immigrants; historical and geographical description of Hanover County, Virginia; the scenery and vegetation of the great Illinois prairies; scattered reminiscent biographical data about Daniel Boone and his wife in 1797, Simon Kenton, Jane McNeil (1802-1814), and Samuel Parker (born 1772). One letter (October 18, 1833) addressed to Governor Thomas Lucas of Ohio discusses the frontier scourge of “milk sickness” and its possible cause.