[December 1850],1 The date is inferred from Ellen White's account in the letter of a conference held in Paris, Maine, either November 16-17 or 23-24, 1850 (see notes below). Her letter would therefore have been written in late November or early December, but well before Mary Nichols's letter of December 12, 1850.
Letter to
Mary Nichols. 1EGWLM 261.5
Previously unpublished.
Powerful revival at Paris, Maine, conference November 1850. 1EGWLM 261.6
[From a letter of Mary Nichols to Sister Collins [Nancy Collins],2 Identity: Probably Nancy Collins, of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, wife of Philip Collins. No other Collins family appears in the Review until 1853. See: Search term “Collins” in Words of the Pioneers.
We have received a good letter from Sister Ellen [Ellen G. White]. She is in Paris, Maine.3 The Whites had moved to Paris, Maine, at the end of October 1850. See: Ellen G. White, Lt 26, 1850 (Nov. 1). Even though the wording here is ambiguous, another account by Ellen White of the same conference places it in Paris. According to the Review the conference took place either November 16-17 or 23-24, 1850. See: Ellen G. White, Lt 30, 1850 (Dec. 13); A. S. Stevens, “Letter From Sister A. S. Stevens,” Review, December 1850, p. 16; [announcement], Present Truth, November 1850, p. 88. See: Appendix article “Ellen White and Religious Enthusiasm in Early Adventist Experience”; EGWEnc, s.v. “Ecstatic Experiences.”