Letter from homeopathic physician Stillman Spooner to his fiancee Lydia Lucretia Thorp at Camillus, Onondaga County, NY, April 9, 1843. Written from Wampsville, Madison County NY, this letter comments on the spread of the doctrines of Rev. William Miller: "It is truly astonishing what an excitement is got up through the land on this subject. A great many of our most inteligent men are becoming believers in that doctrine. My dear did the thought ever strike you what if thise doctrine is true. If this doctrine is not true there a great many humbugs. Don't accuse me of being a convert to Millerism, still I am the last one to cast ridicule on the subject and indeed I feel it is a solemn subject thought it may be false as to the time." Spooner adds several short sections to the letter over the next days; it appears to have been sent on April 14.