Myra Fairbanks Eells letter, to Charlotte Grout, 1840 January 20 : manuscript.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Eells, Myra Fairbanks, 1805-1878, author.

Contributor:

Grout, Charlotte Bailey, addressee.

Risvold, Floyd E., former owner.

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hudson's Bay Company.

Women missionaries--Washington (State)--Correspondence.

Women missionaries.

Indians of North America--Washington (State).

Indians of North America.

Frontier and pioneer life--Washington (State).

Frontier and pioneer life.

Genre:

Manuscripts, American -- 19th century.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Floyd E. Risvold (Minnesota).

Sold by Spink USA (Spink Shreves Galleries, Dallas, Texas), July 2010, to Caroline F. Schimmel.

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Physical Description:

1 item (1 bifolium) : paper ; 25 x 41 cm (unfolded)

Production:

Tshimakain Mission, Washington, 1840 January 20.

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Large). Box 3 Folder 16

Biography/History:

Congregationalist missionary, one of the founders of the Tshimakain Mission in 1838, near modern Ford, Washington, together with her husband, missionary Cushing Eells, and married missionaries Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker.

Summary:

Letter to Charlotte Grout, second wife of missionary Aldin Grout, forwarded to Port Natal, South Africa, describing the journey from Independence, Missouri, to the Pacific Northwest in 1838; the establishment of the Tshimakain Mission in 1839; church and school for the local Indigenous people, speakers of the Flathead dialect of the Salish language; local geography and weather; and assistance from representatives of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Notes:

Transcription of letter by Caroline Schimmel housed with manuscript.

Cited in:

Described in OK, I’ll do it myself: narratives of intrepid women in the American wilderness: selections from the Caroline F. Schimmel Collection, New York (exhibit catalog, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Kislak Center, 2018), p. 30 (no. 24).

Cited as:

Myra Fairbanks Eells letter to Charlotte Grout (Misc Mss (Large) Box 3 Folder 16). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1355266430