The Halcyon Luminary and Theological Repository. By a Society of Gentlemen. Devoted to Religion and Polite Literature. Vol. 1, No. 6. June, 1812

No Place: No publisher, 1812. Pamphlet. Fair. Large pamphlet, lacking any outer wraps. Pagination runs 241-288. A collection of essays on various subjects, including, religious, philosophical, literary and historical topics. Of note is two page piece on a Native American prophet in Georgia, a member of the Creek, who had predicted an earthquake and the arrival of a lamp in the west. The article asserts this was to rally the Creeks to battle against the white settlers, and provides a bit of biographical background on the Native American prophet. This issue also prints the music and lyrics to a song "Content," written by Dr. G.K. Jackson, an English organist at the King's Church, who arrived in Boston in 1812, becoming an organist in several churches there. Jackson was a proponent of both instrumental and choral music (Elson, the National Music of America and Its Sources). Also in this issue is a work on agriculture and irrigation of farm lands, discussing means of finding the best locations for channels and providing a diagram for building a level. A theological/scientific discussion on the origin of the Earth is also featured. FAIR condition. Moderate to heavy uneven browning to the paper with dampstaining to the upper half and to the lower corner along the fore edge. Scattered minor to moderate foxing throughout, with the exterior dampstains affecting the first half of the interior. Chipping and tearing along the fore edge with some loss of paper to the corners of several pages.