An 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-accusing his accusers.
Peter Cartwright [1785-1872] of course the stuff of legend. Already a noted revivalist and circuit preacher, he ran against, and lost, Abraham Lincoln for a seat in Congress. He was perhaps the quintessential Old West revivalist. He beat up Mississippi boat captains who refused passage to Methodist preachers, etc., A character indeed.
Cartwright, Peter. A Letter Purporting to be from His Satanic Majesty, the Devil: with An Answer Annexed. Cincinnati. Printed for the Author. 1863. 68pp.
A good + copy, bound in cloth, generally solid, with generally bright pages, and a few corners chipped, but not effecting the text.
