(TRAVEL) Autograph album kept by American missionary Sarah C

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(TRAVEL.) Autograph album kept by American missionary Sarah C. Hinsdale in Constantinople. [52] manuscript pages. Oblong 4to, gilt morocco, minor wear; minor foxing. In early marbled board slipcase. Vp, 1855

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Sarah Clark Hinsdale (1809-1857) was a native of Londonderry, NH who spent 14 years with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, spreading the gospel of Congregationalist Christianity in Mosul and Constantinople. This album was presented to her by fellow missionary William G. Schauffler in 1855, and includes inscriptions by a variety of their colleagues in and near Constantinople before her May 1855 departure, plus a few additional inscriptions from her return voyage. Harrison Gray Otis Dwight (1803–1862) and William Goodell (1792–1867) were among the well-known missionaries who contributed substantial personal inscriptions. On the return trip off Long Island, Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (1837-1914) contributed a pencil maritime view. In the accompanying inscription, he called himself "your quondam pupil"; he later became the American Minister to Persia.