[f. TRACT sb.1 + -LET.] A small tract.
1883. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 12 Aug., 2/3. She was a thin, narrow, dark visaged woman with ‘specs’ on, and she carried a package of tractlets and leaflets, which she scattered broadcast among the sinners in the Cass avenue car on which she rode.
1892. Review of Rev., 14 April, 413/2. This is a neatly-printed little tractlet.
1893. Rickett, Quickening Caliban, xiii. Packets of picture-cards and tractlets.
1895. E. Chester, in Mission. Herald (Boston, U.S.), Jan., 16. Tens of thousands of our Tamil handbills or tractlets … are scattered through the … Madura district.
