![[Item #55671] History of the Fever and Ague War in Wallingford, in Two Letters, Reprinted from the Correspondence of the "American Socialist" ONEIDA COMMUNITY, John Humphrey NOYES.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/55671.jpg?auto=webp&v=1635978633)
History of the Fever and Ague War in Wallingford, in Two Letters, Reprinted from the Correspondence of the "American Socialist"
Wallingford, CT: Wallingford Printing Company, [n.d. but ca. 1876]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Stab-sewn pamphlet with title cover; 16pp. Minor dirt to edges, else Very Good. Letters documenting struggles with epidemics in the Wallingford Community, a branch of the Oneida Community with a printing press. The community debated removing from Wallingford, but remained to maintain their printing operation, and fought the disease by acquiring a Turkish bath. The letters claim that the community's spiritual struggle "substantially expelled the spiritual virus (ignorantly called malaria)" (p.16). NOT IN WELLS; NOT IN DARE.
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