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3½ pages, on 4-page lettersheet with integral address leaf. 32x19.7 cm. (12¾x7¾").

Letter to Newton Adams, a missionary who was the first medical doctor in Natal when he arrived with his wife and fellow missionaries in February of 1835, in the heart of the Zulu nation, surrounded by tumult and danger. Much of the letter from his sister pertains to family matters and church activities in the United States, but there are some insightful and informative comments in response to her brother's earlier letter from Natal. In part: "...We had hoped your next letters would have brought us a more favorable account of your prospects, but recent intelligence and the fact that so many of its members have returned home, leave very little encouragement that the mission among the Zulus will ever be resumed... We cannot advise but I think that you must be a better judge of what course to pursue than the prudential committee at Boston..."