What can a dream of fish or flowers reveal about the future? What must a young woman do to attract a husband? The most recent addition to Illinois Wesleyan's Special Collections, which is located on the fourth floor of The Ames Library (1 Ames Plaza East, Bloomington), contains the nearly 200-year-old answers to these questions.
Eric Gardner, class of '89, presented the university with The Complete Fortune Teller and Dream Book, a rare early 19th century chapbook (a small, inexpensive paperback publication common in the 18th and 19th centuries) originally published in Boston in 1824.
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