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1762 Pennsylvania Quaker Manuscript.

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1762 Pennsylvania Quaker Manuscript.
An anonymous document titled &#34;A Remarkable Dream,&#34; dated &#34;30 of M 10 M 1762,&#34; 2pp, both sides, 3x8&#34;. Very good; toned, with several old tape marks and a couple of small holes. The text, written in a flowing hand, begins, &#34;<I>I thought I was Dead and beheld my body Lay like a corps [sic]…I…asked my guide what is this place he answered heaven</I>….&#34; The writer describes seeing pious friends &#40;now deceased&#41;, the smell of sulfur and brimstone, and a woman with flames coming out of her eyes! From the Ridgway-Wayne estate.