1 pg. of text + 1 pg. detached stampless address leaf. To Walter Lowrie [Corresponding Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions] New York Erskine was born a slave in Tennessee in 1820, but his father, after being emancipated by white philanthropists and ordained a Presbyterian Minister, purchased the freedom of his entire family and transported them to Liberia in 1830. Erskine’s parents and several siblings died soon after arrival in Africa, but he survived to become a missionary in Monrovia, eventually being appointed Liberia’s Attorney General, and returning to America several times after the Civil War to arrange Colonization voyages for hundreds of Southern ex-slaves to the new West African nation. Erskine asks Lowrie to send him a book, The Treasury of Knowledge, one dozen copies of a Grammar and Geography text, and a Celestial Atlas and Globe. Thanks him for sending the published Memoir of Lowrie’s son, a missionary to China who was killed by pirates in 1847 aboard a boat out of Shanghai. “…your kindness…has encouraged me much in my labours…it will [prove?] a source of encouragement to Young men destined for Missions…Please pray for me in this land of moral darkness…”
1 pg. of text + 1 pg. detached stampless address leaf. To Walter Lowrie [Corresponding Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions] New York Erskine was born a slave in Tennessee in 1820, but his father, after being emancipated by white philanthropists and ordained a Presbyterian Minister, purchased the freedom of his entire family and transported them to Liberia in 1830. Erskine’s parents and several siblings died soon after arrival in Africa, but he survived to become a missionary in Monrovia, eventually being appointed Liberia’s Attorney General, and returning to America several times after the Civil War to arrange Colonization voyages for hundreds of Southern ex-slaves to the new West African nation. Erskine asks Lowrie to send him a book, The Treasury of Knowledge, one dozen copies of a Grammar and Geography text, and a Celestial Atlas and Globe. Thanks him for sending the published Memoir of Lowrie’s son, a missionary to China who was killed by pirates in 1847 aboard a boat out of Shanghai. “…your kindness…has encouraged me much in my labours…it will [prove?] a source of encouragement to Young men destined for Missions…Please pray for me in this land of moral darkness…”
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