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Contains 124 Results:

Letter from A. W. Loomis, Coast of China on board ship Great Briton [sic] to Mr. Seba Loomis, Cazenovia, New York., Sept. 24, 1849

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Weather; their diseases increase daily, he has throat trouble, doctor wants Mary Ann to return to US soon.

Dates: Sept. 24, 1849

Letter from A. W. Loomis, Canton [China] to Mr. Seba Loomis, Cazenovia, New York., Oct. 10, 1849

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They have taken first boat for US, stopped at Canton; AWL has bronchitis.

Dates: Oct. 10, 1849

Letter from A. W. Loomis, Canton [China] to Mr. Seba Loomis, Cazenovia, New York., Nov. 18, 1849

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Still waiting for passage from Canton to US, visited a Buddhist temple.

Dates: Nov. 18, 1849

Letter from A. W. Loomis, Canton [China] to Mr. Silas L. Loomis, Cazenovia, New York., Dec 10, 1849

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"probably leave here about the middle of December and the captain counts on about 110 days passage."

Dates: Dec 10, 1849

Will of Seba Loomis, Cazenovia, Madison Co., New York., Dec. 24, 1849

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Collection includes letters to relatives in Cazenovia, New York, from Augustus Ward Loomis and his wife, Mary Ann, Presbyterian missionaries to Chekiang Province, China (1845-1849), Indian Territory (1852), and to the Chinese in San Francisco (1865-1867). These letters are mainly concerned with the Loomis' religious views and activities, their impressions of the places to which they traveled, in particular Hong Kong, Canton, Chusan, and Ningpo, China; Chicago and Galesburg, Illinois; St....
Dates: Dec. 24, 1849