Handwritten and signed letter dated 8 Aug. 1832. The item is addressed to Rev. Miles D. Squire, Corresponding Secretary of the American Home Missionary Society, of Geneva, New York. Gelston reports on conversions and religious intolerance in Medina, approximately sixty miles west of Palmyra, New York. He states that through both open and secret means, a group of citizens are actively striving to discourage his congregation and attempting to expell them from their meeting house.