1887 JAMES CHALMERS. 1.5pp Autograph Letter of Pioneer Missionary to Rarotonga and Cook Islands. Vellum August the 5

August the 5

Lee formally surrendered to Grant at the Appomattox Court House

He studied at Highbury College

By Order of the Assembly

John Gillies

1887 JAMES CHALMERS. 1.5pp Autograph Letter of Pioneer Missionary to Rarotonga and Cook Islands. Vellum August the 5Very 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