Special Collections and University Archives, - Selected African Holdings
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1842 English
Fitting a house for Charlotte. News of family illness and death since last contact a year ago; predictions that Grout would die within two years have proven incorrect, though then …
University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1842 English
Has just heard that James has entered college and will write him about the temptations of college life an the need to keep after "cultivation of his religious feelings." Have …
University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1841 English
Have moved to Inkanyezi, living in a hut supplied by the natives. Has commenced planting; am in good country though surrounded by wild beasts: elephants, buffaloes, hippos, lions, tigers, hyenas. …
University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1841 English
Hard to believe they have now planted and harvested hay and grain and are now eating apples. House in Umlosi is quite comfortable for Natal. Studying Zulu with Brother Champion …
University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1840 English
Ocean voyage to South Africa. "Dingaan's power is, we hear, very much broken, and we hear has been driven from his country, and that the Boers have issued a proclaimation, …
University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1840 English
As yet at Umlosi; visit to Umpandi over country he had not yet traveled; camping in a poor tent. Killed a nine foot snake with poison fangs a quarter of …
University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1836 English
Extract from missionary reports on mission to the Zulus discussing Aldin Grout and brother George Chapman and Dr. Newton Adams; possibly from published ABCFM report.
University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1836 English
Have arrived in Natal; birth of child Relief Oriana on Dec. 9. Hannah's post-partum illness. Sailed with Brothers Champion and Adams to Port Natal, leaving wives at Bethelsdorp: "Notwithstanding all …
University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1836 English
On the death of Hannah Grout. Have a station well commenced at Port Natal; a second conversation with Dingane is as encouraging as the first. "It was thought important that …
University of Massachusetts Amherst · 1836 English
Elegy on the death of Aldin Grout's first wife on a mission in South Africa.