Kimball, Daniel S. Letter to Isaac Post.

Title

Kimball, Daniel S. Letter to Isaac Post.

Creator

Kimball, Daniel S

Contributor

Post, Isaac, 1798-1872

Date

1853-05-16

Description

Handwritten letter from Daniel S Kimball to Isaac Post, May 16, 1853.

Is Part Of

Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Rights

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Identifier

987

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Transcription

(Page 1)

                           Sackets Harbor 16^th May 1853
Mr Isaac Post
                Dr Sir,
                              Your language betokens
that of a Friend & that you are a friend
indeed I infer from the trouble you took
to kindly answer my former letter   My
most intimate Office & academical friends
were the sons of a Friend Drs. U Fosgate of Tex
as & B Fostage of Auburn where I then resided
& hence it is I feel a confidence in allowing
myself to again trouble you   Since I began
meeting in Circle here the latter part of Dec
I have been "possessed" with undeveloped
spirits for some reason or other, & I cannot
rely upon any thing written _ It does not
seem to be so very evil excepting the annoy-
ance of continued deception, but once when
I was informed that my Sp. would "enter
the bright Sp. world" in Feb. purporting to be fr-
om my Mother which I supposed to be real un-
till I got to bed ^when^ my Sis^r. informed me to the con
trary_ They assume the name of my Sis^r. gen-
erally & since Jan. I have nothing claiming
to be from my Mother, Father or Niece which is
very strange for previously it was more generally
my Mother & nearly as often my Niece as Sis^r.

(Page 2)

Just before I recd. your letter in Feb. I recd. a sign-
al purporting to be from my Sisr. to guard me from
deception, which was. the turning of my hand
over palm upwards & a few nights after another
Med. on my left (in Circle) had the same signal
& my left hand was moved & made mesmeric
passes several times down his head, face & arm
&c   Notwithstanding this signal given me each
time I get nothing reliable, or displaying the us-
ual intelligence & I doubt whether I have ha-
d any thing written by my Sp. friends since Jan.
or Feb.   Latterly I became so disheartened that
I quite sitting to write & have been almost in-
duced to go with Mr Beecher & Dr [Fyny?], still
something would keep whispering me, if evil why
cannot the blest be equally privileged for we are in-
formed the greatest freedom reigns there & the wh-
ole Bible shows both kinds of Sp. intercourse
          So on reading the introduction to day & the Com-
munication of S. E. S. in your "Sp. Voices" I was indu-
ced to ask you if you could not do something to de-
liver me & set in the way of progression that I may
again rejoice with joy unspeakable I have not had
that understanding with my Monitor, I apprehend, I
that I should have had nor did I know of the ne-
cessity of it untill [sic] I read your Voices, when I con-
jecture it was too late to obtain it excepting thr-
ough some other source than myself   I was in
hopes that your letter in Feb. swould [sic] have contain-

(Page 3)

ed the signal check, but it would seem that
I was given a false one just before your letter
came which I supposed real   Perhaps Mrs. Draper
might be able to aid you by discerning the Sp^s. tha-
at [sic] are annoying me & the ones that seek my prof-
perity     Up to the time I read your Voices. I
was in the habit daily of sitting & letting any
sp. write that wanted to & in Nov. in N. Y. I was
informed through Mrs. Brown by any Mother that all
my Com^s. were genuine Several of them wrote that
their most hearty desire was to have me so progress
as to be able to enter the 6^th circle / the one above them)
which they said could easily be done by an attentive st
udy of Deity through his works. The great volume of Na
ture   The majority of my com^s. were from the 5^th Circle
though I rec^d some from Genl. Gridley of Auburn &
some Clergymen from the 6^th I cannot boast as some M
edia do seem to of Com^s. from Pre^s. Poets Reformers. Sta-
tesmen &c &c. but I will boast of the warm hearted-
ness ^&c^ of Gridley, the goodness of the Rev. H. Weeks & U
L Kees    I have sometimes thought that many Med
ias cases ^printed^ were like Drs. Cases. all cures   I admire
what you say on that subject in your letter   I can-
not but believe that I had sp^l. aid as my sister in
forms me when I was burnt out 3 years ago. or I
should not have got along as I have done    Hoping
that you will be able to get me out of this state & gather
around me again protecting & advancing Sp^s. & obtain for use a sign-
al that shall be a check to intruders I am Very Respectfully yours
in the faith                                                          D S Kimball

(Page 4)

We have no good media here to counsel   Have you
any of the "Aqua Petra" or Rock Water? Mr Hamm
ond & ^or^ some other Media claim that they get no untruths w
ritten - It may be so but it is very strage [sic] for I am
unwilling to believe myself so very much worse than
others I have gently remonstrated with the Sp^s a few
times for deceiving me & have been informed they
intended no harm & would trouble me no more
yet it continues    It was a source of very great
satisfaction & comfort to com. with them when
I could feel confident & "I left all & followed
them" but now it is exceedingly annoying & dis-
gusting

Tags

Spiritualism

Collection

D.93 Isaac and Amy Post Family Papers

Citation

Kimball, Daniel S, “Kimball, Daniel S. Letter to Isaac Post.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed November 23, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/3276.

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