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Southern Baptist Advocate prospectus
Printed manuscript, September 1842, prospectus and subscription blank for the Southern Baptist Advocate, a "denominational paper" to be issued from Charleston. Signed in print by M.T. Mendenhall, C.M. Furman, W.B. Heriot, A.C. Smith, and H. Bailey, Committee of Publication, and addressed to the Rev. I[veson] L. Brooks, Hamburg, the prospectus sets forth terms for subscriptions to the weekly paper, indicates that a "specimen Number will be prepared in time for the November Associations, which will form the first number of a volume to be continued in January next," and names the Rev. Dr. Tho[ma]s Curtis as editor.URL http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/uscs/1996/baptis96.html