1887 JAMES CHALMERS. 1.5pp Autograph Letter of Pioneer Missionary to Rarotonga and Cook Islands. Vellum With a Biogrpahical Preface

With a Biogrpahical Preface

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His numerous religious tracts had a wide circulation

1887 JAMES CHALMERS. 1.5pp Autograph Letter of Pioneer Missionary to Rarotonga and Cook Islands. Vellum With a Biogrpahical PrefaceVery fine 1. 5pp ALS from pioneer missionary to New Guinea, James Chalmers [1841 1901], to Dr. & Mrs. Henry Robert Reynolds, President of Cheshunt College. James Chalmers was at first a young evangelist in Glasgow in the wake of the 1859 revivals involving Brownlow North, H. Grattan Guiness, etc., Having met George Turner, pioneer missionary to the Samoan Islands, he was convinced of the much greater need of the South Seas. He attended Cheshunt