1841 FRIEND OF VIRTUE. Rare Early Anti-Prostitution & Human Trafficking Periodical. Moral Reform Society. Biography overloaded as you are with

overloaded as you are with cares and duties did I not really hope I was doing you a service by suggesting such an upright and able agent

here printed in Toronto and it seems the first Canadian edition

Philander to Politus [series] by Conrad Speece [owner of the volumes]

He was also one of the most influential Christians of his age

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us

1841 FRIEND OF VIRTUE. Rare Early Anti-Prostitution & Human Trafficking Periodical. Moral Reform Society. Biography overloaded as you are withA very fine sammelband of early and mid 19th century imprints, prominent among which are 16 issues of The Friend of Virtue paper [later, sans The] the organ of the New England Female Reform Society. The paper not only warns against vice, against habits that could make one liable to be taken and turned into the practice of prostitution, but also advocates against male predatory behavior, etc., On the whole, it takes a sympathetic view toward the women