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Collection Reference Number GLC02509.03
From Archive Folder Eighteenth and nineteenth century religious leaders 
Title Note from Alexander Campbell to L. H. Campbell enclosing a letter for immediate printing
Date ca. 9 December 1843 - 9 December 1866
Author Campbell, Alexander (1788-1866)  
Recipient Campbell, L. H.  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Writing to his wife, he encloses a letter to be "sent to the printing office to Mr. McDermot or Mr. Pendleton immediately." Campbell was the principal founder of the Disciples of Christ. From 1830 onward many of his short pieces first were printed in the Millennial Harbinger. Pendleton is possibly William Kimbrough Pendleton, who edited the Millennial Harbinger from 1846 to 1855. Date of letter inferred from the operating years of Campbell's printing office at Bethany, Virginia, 1843 until his death in 1866.
Subjects Religion  Printing  
Place written Cincinnati, Ohio
Theme Religion; Arts & Literature
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Additional Information Has been dated conjecturally to 1843, 1848 or 1854. He died in 1866.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859