Memoir of Adin Augustus Ballou

A grieving father's memorial. Adin Augustus Ballou — the founder's only son, being groomed to carry on the Hopedale ministry — died in 1852 at eighteen. Ballou's memoir gathers his son's letters, school compositions, and last days; its intensity of loss illuminates both the man and the spiritualist turn his thought took that same year (see his Exposition of Views in this collection). A rare, intimate document from inside the Hopedale family.

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