1870 Letter from Rev. Edward P. Smith to the Singer Sewing Company Requesting a Sewing Machine for Howard University Students.
New York City: November 1870. Single one-page letter measuring 8 x 9 ¾ inches. A letter from Reverend Edward Parmlee Smith (1827–1876), then a field secretary of the American Missionary Association, requesting a free or half-priced Singer sewing machine for the “colored young men & women” who are “working their.....