cover image: Letter from Aldin Grout to James Bailey

Letter from Aldin Grout to James Bailey

1850

Beginning to feel as if they have a home, having been at Umvoti for six years. Church now has 18 members with more in the wings and a sabbath school with about sixty. "Were out little village in New England it would not appear to advantage to be sure, but after traveling thirty miles in any direction about us looking at all we see, even what white men have done, we can say that none yet surpasses ours.... Just at present there is a mighty rush of emigrants from England to this place..."
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Authors

Grout, Aldin, Bailey, James

Collection
Aldin Grout Papers
Format
Correspondence
Pages
3 p.
Place Discussed
South Africa
Provider
Digital Commonwealth
Published in
South Africa
Reference
Local other: mums797-b01-f21-i001
Rights
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Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/944017ec7d1a11ff02df795d4bbc5e75