My dear Miss Cleveland, I am greatly obliged by your kind notes, and the books which give a very sad and interesting picture. I have read about half through the first volume, and have been greatly interested by many of the lives.

Thanks too for the permission to use those sketches of the good works done among the negroes for Mission Life, it is a very good magazine, edited by the Reverend J.W. Halcombe, and published by ... continue reading