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S. B. Munger letter, to Samuel Hemenway, Jr., 1846 June 13 : manuscript.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 24 Folder 57
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Munger, S. B. (Sendol Barnes), 1802-1868, correspondent.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Munger, Maria L. -1846.
- Munger, Maria L.
- Missionaries' spouses.
- Women missionaries.
- Missionaries--India.
- Missionaries.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, American. -- 19th century.
- correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Stellar Books & Ephemera (Moab, UT), 2023.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 bifolium) : paper ; 28 x 21 cm
- Production:
- Ahmednugger, India, 1846.
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 24 Folder 57
- Biography/History:
- Born on October 5, 1802 in Fairhaven, Vermont, Sendol Barnes Munger was a missionary in India. He married Maria L. Andrews, of Bristol, Vermont in 1834. She died in 1846 while onboard the ship Chicora, on the voyage from Boston to Bombay, and was buried at sea in the Indian Ocean.
- Summary:
- Letter from American missionary S. B. Munger in India, about the death of his first wife, Maria L. Munger, on the the voyage to India. Addressed on exterior when folded for sending to Mr. Samuel Hemenway, Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio, with postmark.
- Cited as:
- S. B. Munger Letter, to Samuel Hemenway, Jr., 1846 June 13 (Misc Mss Box 24 Folder 57). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1396090808
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