1830 EDWARD PAYSON. Memoir of Praying Payson of Portland. Leonard Ravenhill Recommended!A very nice copy of the memoir of "Praying Payson of Portland" as Leonard Ravenhill called him. Payson, Edward. A Memoir of the Rev. Edward Payson, D. D. by Asa Cummings. New York. American Tract Society. Nd. c. 1830. 486pp Attractive quarter leather with spine lightly rubbed, geometrically embossed cloth boards; through at extremities, very solid, generally crisp and clean with some scattered minor to moderate foxing.