Edmonia Highgate to Rev. S. S. Jocelyn, Jan. 30, 1864
- Title
- Edmonia Highgate to Rev. S. S. Jocelyn, Jan. 30, 1864
- Date
- 01-30-1864
- Creator
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Edmonia Highgate
- Description
- Edmonia Highgate writes from Binghamton, N.Y. to Rev. S. S. Jocelyn of the A.M.A. that she is glad she has been approved as a teacher. She requests the salary of a missionary, adding that she is willingly sacrificing a position that makes her twice the money she will make working for the A.M.A. She wishes to go south, "the sooner the better."
- Related Financial Supporters
- American Missionary Association
- Transcript
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Binghamton Jan. 30, 1864
Rev S. S. Jocelyn
My Dear Sir-
Yours of the 28th ult. reached me today. I am truly glad that I am “approved”. I have felt an intense interest in the education of my freed brethren South and have been actuated to enter into this work simply by a desire to be a pioneer in trying to raise them up to the stature of manhood and womanhood in “Christ Jesus.” Now as to my surroundings and location- I am willing to go anywhere excepting to Port Royal or islands adjacent- I care but little whether I am sent to a city or to a rural district. I prefer to go as missionary but of course I expect to be engaged in both day and night schools as teacher. Shall expect the Association to pay me the salary of a missionary- I should be pleased to be one of those “who could go into the work without any pecuniary compensation” from your excellent society; but I am in duty bound to assist a widowed mother and brothers and sisters some. I am very willingly making some sacrafice by leaving a situation that yields me twice the salary which I hope for in my new field- Please let me know as soon as possible just how soon I will be required to go South. The sooner the better. I shall however need a little notice in order to get ready- Enclosed is a certificate from Prof. D. H Crittenden relative to my success as teacher in this place. You will greatly oblige me by returning it.
Yours for the Cause,
Edmonia G. Highgate
Part of Edmonia Highgate to Rev. S. S. Jocelyn, Jan. 30, 1864