Parrish, Dillwyn to Janney, Samuel M., 1861

Dillwyn hopes (1861) that the border states will not follow the deep South. Sentiment in the North has been to not interfere with the states that presently enslave people. Joint Committee on the Education Concern advancing slowly. Growing interest in women establishing First Day Schools. Philadelphia suffering economic problems with the political situation. Extracts from a letter from his brother George who spent several weeks in London, visited Joseph Smith in his little house. Smith says that he is thought to be "tainted with Hicks." Controversial book in London is Friendly Sketches in America by William Tallack; gives an account of divisions in the Society of Friends in the U.S., especially critical of the Wilburites.