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1877253071San Francisco: P.J. Thomas 1877. Plates some folding. 192pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later black buckram spine gilt. Light soiling to front endpapers. Frontispiece with some repaired closed tears other paper breaks not repaired. Internally clean. About very good. Plates some folding. 192pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An illustrated account of the Catholic missions in California. The frontispiece shows St. Mary's College. Cowan notes that some copies were issued with a large map of San Francisco which is not present in this volume. Cowan p.166 P.J. Thomas unknown
183133759Boston: Crocker and Brewster 1831. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. viii 400 pages. Brownish marbled paper covered boards with leather corners and spine. Red leather title label on the spine. Light to moderate scattered foxing and toning to the contents. An additional smaller pamphlet consisting of 4 pages is inserted between page 368 and 369. The pamphlet is titled - "The Missionary Herald A Monthly Publication of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions." <br /> <br /> Contents include conditions of Native American tribes; missions in the Sandwich Islands Hawaii; the American Colonization Society; a letter written to Georgia Governor George Gilmer regarding Georgia's treatment of the Cherokees from Rev. Samuel Worcester New Echota Cherokee Nation and much more. Crocker and Brewster hardcover
191964054Ossining NY: Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America 1919. Tall 8vo. xiii 1 323 pp. plus 15 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp. numerous photo illusts. Pictorial red publisher’s cloth gilt lettering gilt & black illustration on front cover edgewear minor spotting & soiling on front cover light sunning to spine still a good copyr from libraries of Dr. Roy Shearer and David G. Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian w/ former ownership stamps on ffep. First edition of this well-illustrated tour through East Asian missions by the Superior of Maryknoll through Japan with stops in Tokyo Niko Fukushima and Sendai; Korea with visit to Seoul Cathedral and Benedictine School Peking Hankow Kuling Shanghai Hong Kong Canton and more. Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, hardcover
193963343Los Angeles: California Mission Trails Association Ltd. 1939. 4to. 20 pp unpaginated. Photo-illustrated throughout. Photo-illustrated self-printed softcovers pictorial map on back cover minor age toning slight edgewear still VG bright copy w/ discreet stamp of “Ideal Auto Court Redwood City Cal.†on front cover. First edition thus of this nicely illustrated automobile travel photo guide up the California Mission Trail and issued by the California Mission Trails Association promoting travel down from the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition by the Mission Revival Movement in the 20th century down to Los Angeles. They issued numerous guides for the Mission Trail and supported amenities and fundraising from travelers for the preservation movement. No copies in Worldcat similar titles by Rotogravure Co. & All-Year Club Tourist Bureau are located at Chapman Autry Museum UCSB Cal Poly & UMO St. Louis. California Mission Trails Association, Ltd., paperback
192764141New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers by arrangement with Little Brown & Co. c. 1927 1930. Tall 8vo. xx 392 pp. plus 4 pp. publ. ads. Photo frontisp. 10 plates. Diced brown cloth Franciscan Mission vignette in red on front cover red lettering minor shelfwear w/ d.j. Mission photo front cover minor sunning to spine edgewear still NF/VG copy from the library of David Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. First Grosset edition of this excellent illustrated history and travelogue through the California Missions. Revised & expanded in 1927 this edition does include the significant updates by James over the 1905 original. Scarce in original dustjacket. Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, by arrangement with Little, Brown & Co., hardcover
187746051San Francisco: Compiled Printed and Published by P.J. Thomas No. 505 Clay Street 1877. 8vo. 192 pp. Woodcut-engraved frontisp. 9 plates 1 large folding of St. Mary’s College 1 folding map of The Laguna Pond of Dolores. Publisher’s brick-red cloth elaborate gilt decoration & lettering on front cover gilt lettering on spine minor bumping head & foot of spine corners minor wear to lower corners still a VG- copy w/ bookplate of the Gentlemen’s Sodality Library at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco on front pastedown w/ stamp of book number. First edition of this rare account of the impact of the Catholic and Jesuit missionaries in California. In addition Thomas has included extensive notes on early explorations of California as well as appendices on The Pious Fund. Of interest is the description and folding map of the Laguna of Dolores which commemorated the report by Gov. Neve of 1777 referring to a Lake Dolores that was located in San Francisco near where the Protestant Orphan Asylum stood in 1877 which site is today bounded by Haight Buchanan Hermann and Laguna Streets. Compiled, Printed and Published by P.J. Thomas, No. 505 Clay Street, hardcover
1852List2521London 1852. Five groups of documents measuring 13 x 8 inches various paginations see full description below. Fine condition. A scarce set of primary source documents relating to the protection of British territory in the Caribbean in particular along the Mosquito Coast during the period of varied interests in the area in the period following the Anglo-Spanish agreement on the slave trade. Consisting of a series of secretarial copies of reports delivered to Peter McQuhae Commodore of H.M.S. Imauam stationed in Jamaica these dispatches offer an overview of the issues confronting the British Navy in Jamaica during the period and in the Caribbean more broadly. Most of the documents refer to issues with Cuba the most interesting perhaps being a letter warning of an impending filibustering expedition against Cuba by a pro-slavery faction in the American South. <br /> <br /> The group consists of five groups of bound documents some bound out of order and likely bound later. Contents are as follows: <br /> <br /> 1. Addington A.M. Four Page Report Concerning Placing a Ship of War at Grey Town to Discourage Invasions on the Mosquito Coast March 13 1851. <br /> <br /> Henry Addington writes McQuhae to recommend stationing a warship at Grey Town:<br /> <br /> “.it would be sufficient that a Ship of War should from time to time look in grey Town without remaining there at any time long enough to endanger the health of the crew… to provide for the case which is possiblee tho’ not at all likely that during the interval between the visits of a Ship of War some expedition of Nicaraguan or some of the North Americans returning from California might take advantage of the comparatively unprotected state of the lace to take possession of it and that the cruiser on its return to Grey Town might find the place so occupied Lord Palmerston concieves taht in such an event it would seem to be inconsistent with the Honor of this Country that a British Ship of War should acquiesce in such an aggression and it would be right that the intruder should be expelled if the Commander of the Ship of War should find as he probably would that he had the means of doing so without much difficulty and that in case he should repel the intruders and re-establish the authorities of the Mosquito Government demanding the liberation of any British or Mosquito subjects who might have been made Prisoners and holding hostages for their relief if they should have been removed up into the interior of the Country.<br /> <br /> It It is to be hoped however that all questions of dispute in regard to Grey Town will beoon be settled because Her Majesty’s government has through Her Majesty’s Minister at Washington proposed to the Government of the United States that an arrangement should be made by which the Sovereignty of Grey Town… should be transferred to the State of Costa Rica… Lord Palmerston desires me to add that there are at present at Washington a plenipotentiaries both from Nicaragua and Costa Rica for the purpose of conducting this negotiation…â€<br /> <br /> 2. Addington G.M. Single Page Letter in Secretarial Hand Warning of Incoming Ships to Cuba Carrying Enslaved Individuals January 24 1852. <br /> <br /> Addington writes to McQuhae about two incoming vessels carrying enslaved Africans passing on information received at Rio De janeiro by another British vessel:<br /> <br /> “I am directed by Earl GraH.M. Minister at Rio reporting that he had recieved information that two Slavers had sailed from Havana to… the coast of Africa… with the intention of returning with Cargoes of slaves which are to be landed at the Entrade de Cuchillo in Cuba.â€<br /> <br /> 3. Seymour G.F. et al. Four Reports Bound Together on Varied Subjects including the Case of the Creole British Fishing Rights in Spanish Waters off of Cuba and Porto Rico and the Case of a Detained British Vessel in Cuba 1852. <br /> <br /> A series of four reports addressed to McQuhae on various subject as follows:<br /> <br /> A. Report dated May 17 1852 from Seymour discussing the case of the Creole detained in 1851:<br /> <br /> “.enclosing copies of a letter from the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs approving of the course I had pursued with regard to the Creole and of a despatch from the Earl of Malmesbury to Her Majesty’s Minister at Madrid relative to the rights of British Subjects to fish on the coast of Cuba…â€<br /> <br /> B. Letter from Augustus Stafford Apriul 23 1852 discussing the Creole mostly discussing the enclosure of varied reports on the subjects but with little specific information. <br /> <br /> C. Addington A.M. April 21 1852 letter discussing the Creole case and the enclosure of documents. <br /> <br /> D. Earl of Malmesbury April 14 1852 letter discussing the Creole case in more detail:<br /> <br /> “ The Right thus claimed rests on this universally admitted precept of international Law “dominium finitur ubi finitur armorum vis†which in modern practice has been construed to mean “about one marine league from the mainland†and H.M.’s Govt are clearly justified in demanding that the Spanish authorities shall be ordered not to meddle or interfere with British fishermen outside that three mile boundary…â€<br /> <br /> 4. Earl of Malmesbury et al. Series of Three Secretarial Copies of Reports Concerning Impending Filibuster Raids on Cuba Giving Instructions for Assisting Spanish Forces. <br /> <br /> A very interesting series of reports detailing the planned response to pending “Piratical Attacks†showing the extent to which British forces were prepared for an American filibuster attack on the island and the degree to which they intended on assisting the Spanish forces. As follows:<br /> <br /> A. Seymour G.F. Secretarial Copy of Letter Written on May 5 1852 from Cumberland at Bermuda relaying the transmission of a full report of instructions to the British forces regarding an impending filibuster raid:<br /> <br /> “ I hereby enclose for your guidance… orders… relative to the assistance which is to be afforded by Her Majesty’s Ships on the application of the Captain General of Cuba in the Transport of Troops in the event of a Piratical attack being again made on that island by which you will govern your conduct…â€<br /> <br /> B. Earl of Malmesbury. Secretarial Copy of a Letter Dated April 10 1862 discussing piratical attacks:<br /> <br /> “.that in the event of a Piratical Attach being made upon that island… HM’s ships might assist in conveying troops to any poiunt of the Coast of Cuba at which the invading Party might effect a landing…â€<br /> <br /> C. Honley P. Secretarial Copy of an Undated Letter c. 1852 regarding piratical attacks:<br /> <br /> “Her Majesty’s ships might assist in coveying Troops to any point off the Coast of Cubat at which the invading Party might effect a landing… you should be instructed until further ORders that if the Captain General of Cuba should require your assistance for the transport of troops in the manner pointed out in your abovementioned dispatch you should comply with that demand…â€<br /> <br /> 5. Crampton Sir John. Copy of a Letter in Secretarial Hand Relaying the Impending Danger of a Pro-Slavery Filibuster Mission from Florida May 17 1852. <br /> <br /> A fascinating letter relaying information received from M. Calderon de la Barca concerning an impending filibuster mission against Cuba led by a Dr. Wren part of an organization called “The Lone Star Association:â€<br /> <br /> “.it would appear that the government of the United States has also received an intimation that something of the sort is on foot for the President informed M. Calderon that orders had already been sent to the U.S. Authorities at the different Ports of the Union to be prepared to take vigorous measures for the repression of any such attempts… an expedition is in fact meditated by certain parties in the South and that it is intended that it should leave some Port of Florida. The real object of this expedition however as as I am told not Cuba… but San Domingo for the purpose of acting as auxiliaries to the Dominicans against the Haytians… it is by no means impossible that its ultimate aim would be Cuba… the persons I am given to understand engaged in the expedition are a Dr. Wren who is president of a society called “The Lone Star State Association…â€<br /> <br /> The letter is worthy of further study - we find references to a Dr. Wren in newspaper articles from the period but were unable to pinpoint his identity or the history of his organization. An article from a Loudon Tennessee newspaper describes Dr. Wren as a “representative of New Orleans societies†and described a meeting in Loudon in 1852 trying to recruit for the overthrow of the Spanish colonial government of Cuba through an invasion. unknown
189442914Cleveland OH: Verlag der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft Lauer & Mattill 1894. Oblong 8vo. 6 33 1 pp. 33 photo plates. Olive-green cloth elaborately decortd gilt lettrng & decrtn on frnt cvr mnr soilng shlfwr some rubbng to spine still a G copy. First edition of this scarce travel album illustrating the efforts of German-American missionaries in Japan w/ numerous street scenes in Tokyo as well as pictures of Japanese students their schools and chapels. Verlag der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft, Lauer & Mattill, hardcover
183233237Boston: Crocker & Brewster 1832. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Single issue. Pages 29-32; pages 349-384 1 viii index. Outer printed wraps present. Contents printed on front and advertisements inside the front cover and both side of the back cover. Paper untrimmed with light edge wear and toning. Interior contents clean. A map of Bombay and adjoining coast located on page 29. Articles cover the Sandwich Islands Hawaii; Choctaws; Osages; Arkansas Cherokees; and more. Crocker & Brewster unknown
183233236Boston: Crocker & Brewster 1832. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Single issue. Pages 385-416 1 viii index. Outer printed wraps present. Contents printed on front and advertisements printed inside the front cover and both sides of the back cover. Paper untrimmed with light edge wear and toning. Interior contents clean. Notable contributions regarding Native Americans include articles on the Cherokees from the Journal of Mr. Butrick; articles on the Arkansas Cherokees; Ojibeways tribe; and Indians in New York. Crocker & Brewster unknown
188335151New York: Baptist Home Missions Rooms. Geo. W. Wheat Printer 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 1 619 pages. Illustrated with engravings and sketches. Green cloth hardcover with gilt publisher seal on the front cover and gilt title on the spine. Floral end sheets. Institutional markings from the Library of Congress on the right front flyleaf and title page. Card number label pasted down on the rear end paper. Front hinge cracked. A few thin cracks to the text block. Edge wear to some pages. some underlining and brief marks written in the contents section. <br /> <br /> Contents cover missions for African Americans Native Americans Chinese Missions etc. Baptist Home Missions Rooms. Geo. W. Wheat, Printer hardcover
1926101192Hernhut Saxony G. Winter 1926 1926. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 951p. small 8vo original cloth backed paper covered boards printed in English and Inuktitut on facing pages fine condition. Banks p. 79. Evans 365. Lande Moravian 76. O'Dea 1858. Outlines the duties and expectations of the congregation as well as the rituals of the Moravian Church particularly as it relates to Eskimo converts. . Hernhut, Saxony, G. Winter, 1926 Hardcover
1885248751885. Leitch spent 11 years in Sri Lanka with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. She was co-author of "Seven Years in Ceylon" published by the American Tract Society. In this photo she is seated with a book under her arm surrounded by four adorable Sri Lankan girls. <br /> <br /> Cabinet card albumen photograph title beneath gilt edges. 4 1/4 x 6 1/2". A bit of light marking o/w very good condition. unknown
1846List2863New Orleans Louisiana 1846. Single letter three 8 x 10 inch pages. Torn at folds some tears repaired with archival tape; hole at location of seal; otherwise very good to excellent. John Holt Rice 1818–1878 was the son of a Presbyterian minister and nephew of Archibald Alexander founding professor of the Princeton Theological Seminary from which Rice graduated in 1845. When he wrote this letter he was working as a city missionary to the poor in New Orleans. Rice would spend his career ministering around the southern United States before his death from yellow fever. His correspondent is John Cameron Lowrie 1808–1900 a Scottish immigrant fellow Princeton graduate and a missionary in Colonial India. When his health became too precarious to remain abroad Lowrie returned to serve with the Board of Foreign Missions.<br /> <br /> The subject of missions boards was part of the Old School-New School controversy and schism in the Presbyterian Church particularly over whether missionary work should be primary the Old School view or secondary the New School view to the Church’s work.1 Those holding the latter view were satisfied with the work of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions ABCFM which was not a specifically Presbyterian body. Those of the former view believing that the Church’s missionary board ought to be itself Presbyterian formed the Western Foreign Missionary Society. When the Church’s second schism occurred in 1837 the Western society was <br /> renamed the Board of Foreign Missions BFM and headquartered in New York City.<br /> <br /> In this letter Rev. Rice finds himself in the delicate position of being an Old School supporter of the BFM ministering to Congregationalists and New School-raised supporters of the ABCFM. He writes to Rev. Lowrie requesting that copies of the BFM’s monthly Missionary Chronicle be sent to him in a timely manner as this was “a matter of some importance to us who love our own board of foreign missionsâ€:<br /> <br /> “You are probably aware that our churches in this city are composed of very heterogeneous materials many of the members are from New England and were brought up in the congregational church and many were connected with New School churches at the north. This causes no difficulty or division All unite very cordially in support of the Old School church but the sympathies of many are with the American Board of Missions. They know nothing about ours and have some little prejudice against us for our separation. It would be very impudent to argue that question with them now or attempt to convince them that our own board ought to be patronised by those connected with one of our churches rather than the American. But I feel certain that if they knew more of our operations they would take an interest in them.â€<br /> <br /> Rice also notes that he is an editor for the New Orleans Protestant newspaper and suggests that Lowrie send “something now and then†to excite “missionary zealâ€. Of interest to scholars of Presbyterian history especially the 19th-century Old School-New School schism.<br /> <br /> 1 Rev. Dr. Michael Parker “175 Years of Presbyterian World Mission†Presbyterian Historical Society archived November 1 2023 at https://web.archive.org/web/20231101183954/http://www.history.pcusa.org/history-online/topics-note/history-world-mission. unknown
List3148Vigan The Philippines early 20th century. Photograph measuring 5 x 6 ¾ inches mounted on heavy cardstock. Manuscript caption recto. Wear and some damage to edges; excellent. A photograph of a group of young Filipino men in suits with two white women and a child posing in front of a building. The caption reads “Grove Methodist Dormitory Boys and Missionaries Viganâ€. The Methodist Episcopal Church began planning its missionary outreach to the Philippines shortly after the 1898 American victory in the Spanish Civil War when the Philippines became an American colony. The mission center in Vigan the capital of Ilocos Sur on the island of Luzon was opened in 1904 headed by Kansan Berndt O. Peterson.1 Missionaries opened schools—with the aim of both educating and Americanizing their students—and made Vigan the base for evangelizing around the region. According to the UMC’s history of their activities in Asia many Filipinos saw the church’s activities as an extension of American imperialism leading to Nicolás Zamora’s foundation of the Iglesia Evangelica Metodista en las Islas Filipinas in 1909.<br /> <br /> 1 Wade Crawford Barclay History of Methodist Missions Vol. 4 The Board of Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Church 1949. unknown
1856DEMO000593IChicago : Diocese of Illinois 1856 . First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo 30 pages blue printed wrappers <br/><br/>Not in ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS - perhaps because no printer or location is explicit. "Another diocesan year has ended with its labours and cares comparatively easy to forget; its sins and omissions which we cannot and dare not." Includes an account of Bishop Whitehouse's labours and omissions." Note: "This address is found as a second edition in the 'Journal of the Protestant Episcopal Church . 1856. It also circulated as a separate with text of wrapper title same as title page - Byrd 2552." Diocese of Illinois paperback
1334248451.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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19604726Colorado Springs CO: Dentan. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1960. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Book is clean and tight. Signed and inscribed by Donner on front flyleaf. Corner tips and spine have a little shelf wear and gilt on front cover is faded. This is a call to arms for the Christian Church to defend itself from the Philosophers Masons Jacobites Weishaupt even compares the United Irishmen to the Illuminati. ; Thin 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 35 pages; Signed by Editor . Dentan hardcover
194836870Allied Liaison and Protocol Berlin 1948. Folio First Edition text in English French and Russian with numerous full-page portraits throughout; publisher's full green roan boards framed in blind upper board lettered in blind back with five raised bands covers very lightly age-marked else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES THIS COPY NO.150. With the separately printed publication and errata slips loosely inserted. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF COLONEL ALEXANDER PHELPS HODGES WHO SERVED AS CHIEF OF ALLIED LIAISON AND PROTOCOL FROM FEBRUARY 1947. Hodges's portrait appears at p.41. He was formerly leader of the British Military Mission to Siberia 1918-1922 his personal account of which was published as 'BRITMIS' in 1931. Allied Liaison and Protocol, Berlin, hardcover
065635853X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
elala2230Madras: M.E. Press 1906. Text by Rev. Ralph E.Smith Secretary of the Conference and J.Heinrichs. 8vo. pp. 20. stitched as issued [Madras: M.E. Press, 1906] unknown
1816271<p>New York: J. Seymour American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Agents Appointed to Establish a School for Heathen Youth 1816. first edition. modern 1/4 niger morocco. Good. Inspiration for the First Mission to Hawaii. <br /><br />Rare in commerce most copies have been acquired by American institutions. Few copies have come to documented auction in the past 100 years. Of those made available about half are decommissioned library copies including a copy that sold for over $15000 at a 2006 Sotheby's auction.<br /><br />Condition: Very Good<br /><br />IMPORTANCE & BACKGROUND<br /><br />A biographical account of the lives of five Hawaiian youths who would come to form a core of initial students enrolled at the new Foreign Mission School established at Cornwall Connecticut in 1816. The vivid accounts of Captain Cook's and others explorers' voyages to the Sandwich Islands Hawaii and other Pacific islands generated interest in the U.S. to properly educative Hawaiians in both academic and Christian teachings. The school formed under the direction of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions ABCFM would serve to educate foreign students in preparation for missionary work in their native lands and elsewhere. <br /><br />A Narrative of Five Youth from the Sandwich Islands was the first of many publications intended to raise funds and stir up popular support for the new school as well as for the first Christian mission sent to the Hawaiian Islands three years later. The publications were a great success leading to the significant funding and public support critical to early efforts to fold Hawaii within the cultural and commercial influence of the United States.<br /><br />BOOK INFO<br /><br />Published in 1816 in New York by J. Seymour under the direction of ".agents appointed to establish a school for heathen youth" e.g. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. First edition first printing. Bound in modern 1/4 green niger morocco with gilt spine lettering over finely woven green cloth backed boards. Refreshed endpapers. Thin Octavo 8 1/2" x 5 1/8". Collated and complete: 3 4-44 p. <br /><br />ABOUT THE WORK & HISTORICAL CONTEXT<br /><br />By the early 1800s Hawaii had become a key aspect of America's growing trade with China. It was a critical resupply port for American ships on the trade route to China and a lucrative source for sandalwood. American merchants saw commercial possibilities that could be expanded. Protestant missionaries saw heathens in need of salvation via Christian conversion.<br /><br />This is a biographical account of and strong bit of fundraising propaganda on how five Hawaiian youths were saved from their heathen ways and savage pasts through a civilized education and Christian conversion. While the backgrounds of the youth vary - one was the son of a chief and another the survivor of brutal inter-tribal warfare for example-- the stories of these five youths share a number of common elements. All had spent time as sailors on American trade ships. Three had served at sea in the War of 1812. Most had experienced periods of extreme hardship after reaching New England. All found sponsors teachers and spiritual guides who helped them on their path to converting to Protestantism.<br /><br />CONDITION INFO<br /><br />The book is Good to Very Good by early 19th century American imprint standards.<br /><br />Binding is tight. Leather is supple. Areas of dust and light soiling to cloth. Lightly toned pages overall with light foxing. Some abrasion to paper along gutter margins of first few pages. Browning to first and last page with some brittleness and chipping. The paper used by the printer was quite thin so the text block background is darkened a bit by opposing page text on the same leaf as in all copies. No writing ex libris marks or library markings. Slight loosening at the head of the first few leaves where binding cords are exposed. A few smudges marginal paper nicks and other signs of light handling.<br /><br />.</p> J. Seymour, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (Agents Appointed to Establish a School for Heathen Youth)
