Letter from One of the Earliest Female Missionaries at Elliott Mission in the Choctaw Nation, Written Shortly After Her Arrival in “this land of moral darkness,” Describing Frontier Mission Life, Homesickness, and Early Protestant Missionary Activity in Mississippi Territory.
Elliott Mission, Choctaw Nation: April 29, 1820. Four pages bifolium, 10 x 8 inches. Stampless cover bearing the scarce “Choctaw Agency May 25” manuscript marking and “Via Philadelphia” routing notation, described in the original philatelic history sale as possibly “one of the earliest, if not the earliest, cover known from.....