LETTER OF
The GOSPEL TRUTH CHARLES G. FINNEY
1866
To J. Wyeth Coolidge
3 July 1866
[Ms in Finney Papers, supplement #130 (filmed after Joshua Leavitt's letter of 14 March 1864).]
J. Wyeth Coolidge was involved with the American Tract Society in Boston. He had been in touch with Finney early in 1864 to try and get him to go to Boston to help the Union Evangelical Association which had recently been formed there. Soon after that, Finney received the following letter from Joshua Leavitt:
New York, March 14, 1864
Dear Brother Finney,
I am glad to learn
that there is a prospect
of the republication
of the Revival Lectures.
No human mind
is capable of estimating
the good they have done,
in this country & in
England - & that they are
still capable of doing.
The plates are in the
hands of John P. Jewett,
Boston, & I give you
over the leaf, an order on
him for their delivery
to you or your order.
They are entirely at your
disposal as your own.
Yrs Joshua Leavitt
Rev C. G. Finney
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New York, March 14, 1864
John P. Jewett, Esq.
Boston -
Please deliver, at
sight, to Rev. C. G. Finney,
or his order, the stereo-
type plates of "Finney's
Revival Lectures," as
they came into your
hands a dozen years
ago or more, from
Your Obt Servt
Joshua Leavitt
Finney's letter to Coolidge is as follows:
Oberlin 3d July 1866.
Dear Br. Coolidge.
Yours of this blank date is recd. This
letter from Br. Leavitt will explain
itself. J. P. Jewet must hunt up those
plates or supply them from England.
Those Lectures are stereotyped in England.
But they need revision had I not better
get a copy & revise them & have them
stereotyped or have the old plates, if
they can be found, altered. I could revise
them by adding notes. Please return
this letter to me. Thank you for the
little books & Tracts.
God bless you,
C. G. Finney
P.S. Love to Br. Broughton
A new revised and enlarged edition of Finney's Revival Lectures was brought out by E. J. Goodrich of Oberlin in 1868.
Footnotes:
An edition of Lectures on Revivals of Religion had been brought out by the Boston publisher, John P. Jewett, in 1856, and a further reprint in 1858.
This was probably N. Broughton Jr., who worked at the American Tract Society in Boston.