Author: BROWN, A N
Title: Brief Memorials of an Only Son; Plus Elms Today & Glimpses of Missionary Days - 2 Booklets
Description: New Zealand, Bay of Plenty Times. 1964, 3rd Edition. Soft Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Originally published in 1845. Contains additional information from earlier editions. Alfred Nesbit Brown was as a Church Missionary Society missionary who served in New Zealand from 1829 to 1884. He wrote this, his only printed work, as a response to the death of his only son, Alfred Marsh, who died at age 14. He also founded a scholarship in his memory at St John's College in Auckland. CONDITION Stapled wraps has whip stitched spine over, 39 pages with 12 pages of half tone illus, many photo s of the Tauranga Mission House the Elms. Bright and crisp copy apart from pencil name inside front and small pencil note to last page, water stain to rear cover. Also included is Pictorial Souvenir of the Elms, approx. 16 pages of illus. Near Fine/N/A.

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