I am an avid collector of ephemera and in a large collection I had purchased at auction I found an apocryphal writing by an old pioneer flatboater of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. He wrote of his apocryphal, but personal dream he had in 1805 about being taken to a smoldering lake of burning pitch and hung over the edge by a single strand of thread by the Lord himself. He went on to tell of his conversion and baptism in a local Ohio church in that same year. Luckily I found a descendant, who was Mormon, who just had to have the written account. It’s amazing the prices religious writings can demand. But the writer even had the pragmatism to point out that his dreams had been the result of an illness and high fever.

I am an avid collector of ephemera and in a large collection I had purchased at auction I found an apocryphal writing by an old pioneer flatboater of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. He wrote of his apocryphal, but personal dream he had in 1805 about being taken to a smoldering lake of burning pitch and hung over the edge by a single strand of thread by the Lord himself. He went on to tell of his conversion and baptism in a local Ohio church in that same year. Luckily I found a descendant, who was Mormon, who just had to have the written account. It’s amazing the prices religious writings can demand. But the writer even had the pragmatism to point out that his dreams had been the result of an illness and high fever.