Lot 1046
Williams, John - 1836 Letter Written 3 Years Before He Was Killed and Eaten (1796-1839) Missionary in the South Seas; visited England from 1834 to 1837, when he published his popular and influential Narrative of Missionary Enterprise in the South Sea Islands. He was killed and eaten at Dillon's Bay, Erromanga, in the New Hebrides on 20 November 1839.
Autograph Letter Signed ("J. Williams"), 7 x 4½ in., Bedford Square, London, 1836, 15 Jan., 1p. Addressed to "My dear Brother," under the impression that "the Secretaries were to meet on Friday night," adding that he himself "should have come this evening for the purpose of meeting them," and saying that "I will be with you at 12 o'clock today."
Estimated Value $300 - 400.
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