Two Letters of Bassa Cove Physician, Educator, and Colonial Administrator Dr. Wesley Johnson, Documenting Early Liberian Colonization, Anti-Slave Trade Efforts, Tropical Disease, Agricultural Reform, and Educational Institution Building in Liberia, 1839–1842: “O that I was worth a million. I would make a great jam in Liberia.”
Ship Saluda, Bound for Monrovia: October 2, 1839, and Factory Island, Liberia: July 14, 1842. Two autograph letters signed, approximately seven manuscript pages total. 1839 letter measuring 8 x 12 ¾ inches, foxed with small tears at folds, very good; 1842 letter measuring 8 x 10 inches, tears at folds.....