Edmonia Highgate to Rev. G. D. Pike, May 28, 1870
- Title
- Edmonia Highgate to Rev. G. D. Pike, May 28, 1870
- Date
- 05-28-1870
- Creator
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Edmonia Highgate
- Description
- Edmonia Highgate writes from Stamford, Conn. to Rev. G. D. Pike of the A.M.A. with details of her arrival in that place and beginnings of fundraising efforts.
- Related Financial Supporters
- American Missionary Association
- Transcript
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May 28th 1870
Stamford, Conn.
Rev. G. D. Pike
Dear Sir,
Could not conveniently leave N.Y. till Thursday. Arrived here on the evening of that day. I am not in the village of Stamford but a few miles distant therefrom at Prof Woodbury's place known as Springdale, on a little branch R.R. the New Canna. We have communication with Stamford three times a day, fare being twenty cents per trip. Prof Woodbury has pledged himself for ten dollars for the M.E. S.S. at Stamford. I visited the Supt. of the Cong. S.S. of that place yesterday, Dr. Pane. He referred me to his Assist Supt. D[?] Whitney who is a life member of the A.M.A. He thinks nothing can be done in that school. As the Supt. is to be absent next sunday and probably a week from tomorrow he will not ask me to visit the S.S.
I went to Darien [?] stations further east. Called upon Mr. G. Mather Supt. Cong. S.S. Says his school is small[.] He took five dollars pure and two C.H. and promised to see Mr. M of a mission school one mile and a half distant from that village Darien Depot.
This Mr. Mather was of the impression that his S.S. had sent a contribution to the A.M.A. before. He had some funds on hand but was undecided as to where to send them. Spoke of the A.S.N. And Foreign missions. He mentioned Miss Drake's call of last fall. I go to Norwalk S. this afternoon.
Please address me care of Prof. W. H. Woodburn Stamford, Conn.
Yours truly,
E. G. Highgate
P.S. I have no “magazines to leave with Supts.”