Scope and content Nine letters to Dr. Titus Merriman of Elbridge, New York, from his sons in Michigan, Georgia, South Carolina, Ohio, and England, concerning the death of another brother, hard times in Michigan and the adherence to Millerism there, describing travel between Michigan and New York (1839), a Choctaw Indian dance and ball game seen at Mobile, Alabama (1850), a rough steamer trip (1851) on Lake Erie from Buffalo to Detroit, and a voyage from New York to Liverpool and a tour of the British Isle...