Letter from Robert G. Wilson to William W. Woodward (October 24, 1803)

1802-1804, Correspondence, Falling Exercise, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Presbyterians, Robert G. Wilson

“Two days ago I beheld for the first time…a subject of the very singular bodily exercise common among us…. He wept sore for a long time, & was frequently wrought for a short space as men are in a convulsion fit….”