Letter and narrative, [ca. 1843].

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Letter and narrative, [ca. 1843].

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Henry Spalding's 1843 letter to Archibald McKinlay requests McKinlay to speak on his behalf to the American Board regarding Spalding's recall from the missions (WA MSS 435). The narrative, written sometime after the events, describes Spalding's 1836 overland journey to Fort Vancouver and Lapawi, and the beginning of the American Prostestant missions beyond the Rockies (WA MSS 436).

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McKinlay, Archibald, 1811-1891.

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Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874

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Reverend Henry Harmon Spalding, pioneer Presbyterian missionary in the Oregon Territory, was born on November 26, 1803 in New York. In 1836, after successfully applying for an appointment under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Spalding traveled overland to Oregon with his first wife, Eliza Hart Spalding, and Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Later that year he founded the Nez PerceĢ Indian mission at Lapwai, where he remained until the Whitman Massacre in 1847...