Letter from Eliza Ramsey to Annie Baxter (September 3–October 10, 1803)

Letter from Eliza Ramsey to Annie Baxter (September 3–October 10, 1803)

“We have now got the Silent, the jirking, the laughing, and the dancing also the [runing] & pointing exercises. Each one of these in their turns have staggered serious people but they are still as it were constrained to acknowledge this O Lord is thy work, and it is wondrous in our eyes….”

Letter from Samuel G. Ramsey to Anne Fleming (November 29, 1803)

Letter from Samuel G. Ramsey to Anne Fleming (November 29, 1803)

“[W]e Are exercised in A religious way we think. This is the Genus As general name for the thing; but there Are A great many specimens of this exercise. There is the jerking; this is the most Common. In addition to this, there is the dancing, Laughing, running, walking, pointing, fighting and falling exercise….”