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The Missionary's Daughter 1st ed. 1842
The Missionary's Daughter 1st ed. 1842
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Heading: (Hawaii)
Author: [Cummings, Mrs. A.P.]
Title: The Missionary's Daughter: A Memoir of Lucy Goodale Thurston, of the Sandwich Islands
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Dayton & Newman
Date Published: 1842
Description:

233 pp. With engraved frontispiece. (12mo) 6x3¾", brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. First Edition.

Daughter of pioneer Hawaiian missionaries Asa and Lucy Thurston, she was born in Honolulu in 1823, died in 1841. Text includes extracts from several of her letters - including one written in Hawaiian - and journal entries. This is the rare first edition, not to be confused with the Tract Society reprint. Includes appendix on the Hawaiian language.

Condition
Some rubbing to extremities with minor dents to top board; early gift bookplate on front free endpaper; interior with toning and foxing throughout; very good.
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