Twenty Years in Assam; Further Leaves from Assam; Autumn Leaves from Assam; [and] Stray Leaves from Assam (Family presentation copy)
- SIGNED
- Nowgong, Assam, India: Published by Mrs. P.H. Moore, 1916
Nowgong, Assam, India: Published by Mrs. P.H. Moore, 1916. First edition. Near Fine. All four volumes of Jessie Traver Moore's travel accounts of India, with one volume inscribed by Moore to her father on his birthday. Each volume is one of 500 copies published by Moore, with the first three printed at the Baptist Mission Press in Calcutta and the fourth at the Brandow Printing Company in Albany, New York. All bound in publisher's brown cloth with spines titled in gilt. Slight wear to corners and some minor toning to endpapers. A Near Fine set.
Titles as follows: Twenty Years in Assam, or Leaves from my Journal (1901); Further Leaves from Assam (1907), inscribed by Jessie Traver Moore to her father, E.C. Traver: "Wishing you a Happy Birthday, from J.T.M. 1908," with occasional ink marginalia making corrections to spelling; Autumn Leaves from Assam (1910); and Stray Leaves from Assam (1916), with frontisportrait of the author's late husband.
Jessie Fremont Traver Moore (1857 - 1936) spent thirty-six years as a Baptist missionary in Assam, India, where she and her husband, the Rev. Pitt Holland Moore, worked as educators, translators, and publishers. Moore, who was born in rural New York to a family with abolitionist sympathies, arrived in India with her husband early in 1881. She soon became involved in her husband's efforts to translate the New Testament into Assamese and began making careful records of missionary activity in northeastern India. The couple's daughter, Clara, was born at the end of 1881, though Moore later chose to send her back to the United States to receive an education. Moore eventually helped found and run a school for girls and helped operate the Baptist Mission Press, which printed her husband's Assamese New Testament and three of these four volumes. Following the death of her husband in 1915, Moore sailed for the United States, where she returned to New York and published the final volume of this set.
These accounts are both Moore's personal diaries—detailed day-by-day records of her life and work as a missionary between about 1880 and 1915—and a report intended to inform the broader Baptist missionary community of the state of Christian influence in northeastern India. The first volume contains a lengthy appendix, "A General View of the Assam Mission Field," which includes statistics on missionary workers, descriptions of missionary "stations," and explanations of missionary efforts in education, printing, and infrastructure development. The final volume includes reports of several missionary meetings, including the Assam Mission Conference and the All-Assam Convention, as well as memorials honoring Rev. Moore after his death. The full set of four volumes offers a wealth of information on both missionary efforts in Assam as well as a detailed and personal account of an American woman's life abroad. These books are also the output of Christian colonial publishing: the Baptist Mission Press was established and operated by an American missionary woman printing English- and Assamese-language material in India for both a missionary and local audience. Near Fine.
Titles as follows: Twenty Years in Assam, or Leaves from my Journal (1901); Further Leaves from Assam (1907), inscribed by Jessie Traver Moore to her father, E.C. Traver: "Wishing you a Happy Birthday, from J.T.M. 1908," with occasional ink marginalia making corrections to spelling; Autumn Leaves from Assam (1910); and Stray Leaves from Assam (1916), with frontisportrait of the author's late husband.
Jessie Fremont Traver Moore (1857 - 1936) spent thirty-six years as a Baptist missionary in Assam, India, where she and her husband, the Rev. Pitt Holland Moore, worked as educators, translators, and publishers. Moore, who was born in rural New York to a family with abolitionist sympathies, arrived in India with her husband early in 1881. She soon became involved in her husband's efforts to translate the New Testament into Assamese and began making careful records of missionary activity in northeastern India. The couple's daughter, Clara, was born at the end of 1881, though Moore later chose to send her back to the United States to receive an education. Moore eventually helped found and run a school for girls and helped operate the Baptist Mission Press, which printed her husband's Assamese New Testament and three of these four volumes. Following the death of her husband in 1915, Moore sailed for the United States, where she returned to New York and published the final volume of this set.
These accounts are both Moore's personal diaries—detailed day-by-day records of her life and work as a missionary between about 1880 and 1915—and a report intended to inform the broader Baptist missionary community of the state of Christian influence in northeastern India. The first volume contains a lengthy appendix, "A General View of the Assam Mission Field," which includes statistics on missionary workers, descriptions of missionary "stations," and explanations of missionary efforts in education, printing, and infrastructure development. The final volume includes reports of several missionary meetings, including the Assam Mission Conference and the All-Assam Convention, as well as memorials honoring Rev. Moore after his death. The full set of four volumes offers a wealth of information on both missionary efforts in Assam as well as a detailed and personal account of an American woman's life abroad. These books are also the output of Christian colonial publishing: the Baptist Mission Press was established and operated by an American missionary woman printing English- and Assamese-language material in India for both a missionary and local audience. Near Fine.