Volume 1

Abstract The volume is a 135-page, handwritten diary kept by Dwight from August 18, 1837 to November 18, 1843. Diary entries range from a short paragraph to upwards of six pages. The main topics of Dwight's diary are his troubles finding employment in the Methodist religion, his self-afflicted inadequacies of his faith, as well as important issues of his time, which he contemplates. This diary encompasses many areas of the U.S., though most distinctively Georgia, Louisiana, and Ohio. Dwight mainly...