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Lot #392
FRENCH COLONIES Tahiti
1848 (8 Aug) stampless letter to London, datelined "Tahiti Aug 8, 1848" and addressed to the Treasurer of the London Missionary Society, showing arrival pmk (March 13, 1849), manuscript due markings, fine and scarce missionary letter sent by Alexander Chisholm (a missionary with the London Missionary Society in the South Seas from 1842 to 1860. He and his wife arrived in Tahiti in 1843, were reassigned to Samoa and returned back to Tahiti and settled at Hitiaa. In 1852 they retired to Raiatea, where they continued as missionaries until 1860)
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$350.00
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