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A letter to the editor of the Christian Intelligencer from "A. B. T." (the Rev. A. B. Taylor), p. 170, reporting of the most pressing need" of the immigrants. "Their provisions have failed them, and some have been susbsisting on bran." The immigrants have to travel a great distance for basic provisions. The need is urgent to assist these deserving people and their "self denying leader."
Date
4-26-1847
City
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Source
Christian Intelligencer, May 6, 1847, p. 170.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, A. B., "Letter to the Editor of the Christian Intelligencer" (1847). Van Raalte Papers: 1840-1849. 249.
https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1840s/249
Notes
Description of the document by Dr. Elton J. Bruins.
About the collection:
Elton J. Bruins, long-time professor in the Department of Religion at Hope College, spent years collecting documents by and about Albertus C. Van Raalte, founder of Holland, Michigan and early patron of Hope College. Documents were gathered from dozens of public and private collections, making a nearly exhaustive collection of Van Raalte's writings and reflections. It is these documents that make up the "Van Raalte Papers."
Digitizing the Van Raalte papers was supported by the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York. The project was done in partnership with Heritage Hall at Calvin University, which also digitized its Van Raalte collections.