1863 PETER CARTWRIGHT. A Letter Purporting to be from the Devil. Before Screwtape Letters. Slavery Speaks positively of the revival

Speaks positively of the revival then ongoing

these copies

he had at first been a clergyman

equally free and independent

Thomas Hooker

1863 PETER CARTWRIGHT. A Letter Purporting to be from the Devil. Before Screwtape Letters. Slavery Speaks positively of the revivalAn exceptionally rare imprint, self published, of Peter Cartwright's "Letter from the Devil." He had become engaged in a controversy with several Kentucky divines, who together wrote a congratulatory letter to him from the Devil, affirming that his camp meeting, Arminian, revivalist, experimental preaching was directly at the direction of the Devil to Cartwright. The letter is included here, and then Cartwright's equally analogical response counter