Life and Letters of Samuel Norvell Lapsley, Missionary to the Congo Valley, West Africa. 1866-1892
Richmond, VA: Whittet & Shepperson, 1893.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 242 pp. Gray cloth boards with beveled edges, stamped in blind and gilt front board. Mild rubbing to corners, slight soiling. Inscribed on the front flylead in the Congo, probably by Lapsley's pioneering African-American missionary partner, William Henry Sheppard (no comparison signature has been located). Paper is rubbed through at a spot where the inscribee's name was roughly erased. Lapsely died of fever at the age of 26 after serving two years in remote areas of the Congo. This book includes a selection of excerpts from his letters and diary, with an introductory memoir and final chapter by his father, James.
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