Dunbar reports that Knapp is "raising the devil", and "has made a great many raving crazy, and are carried to the insane hospital", and expressed his opinion that "he ought to be strung up alive". 

"Knapp, the preacher that you heard me speak of, is raising the devil up here. He has made a great many raving crazy and are carried to the insane hospital; others are sick abed, and I think he ought to be strung up alive. It is three weeks last Thursday since they began their meetings, and they have held them ever since. The begin at 6 o'clock in the morning and last until 10 in the evening. They have not missed one day nor night since, and do not see any prospect of their leaving off. He has two hundred dollars a week for saving souls, but I do not think he will save mine by any of his lies . . . "

There is some paper loss at the left edge, resulting in the loss of a couple of words of text, and the last name in the signature. (a former owner's pencil notation identifies his last name and the name and location of his mother).