[Indexed as: Crain, Mary, letter dated Jul. 17, 1818 (from Mary Marshall Dyer, A Portraiture of Shakerism …, 1823 (as “1822”)]

EXCERPT

The following few lines the Shakers learnt the children to sing, when my daughter lived at the first family. She said they were not allowed to sing it to the world’s people.

Of all relation, that ever I see,
My old fleshy kindred is the furtherest from me.
So bad and so ugly, so distant they feel,
To shun and despise them increased my zeal.

Oh how ugly they look, how nasty they feel
To shun and despise them increases my zeal.
How ugly, &c.

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