1806 HENRY MARTYN. Rare Missionary Letter to David Brown, Missionary in Calcutta. Martyrs the very Thought of which

the very Thought of which is enough to chill our blood: And it would be happy were this savage Pastime confined to heathen Savages

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1806 HENRY MARTYN. Rare Missionary Letter to David Brown, Missionary in Calcutta. Martyrs the very Thought of whichA very, very rare original 3. 5pp manuscript letter by one of the most influential missionaries of the late 18th, early 19th century, Henry Martyn [1781 1812]. His memoir, edited by John Sargent in 1816, has been almost continuously in print for over 200 years and is considered a devotional classic on par with the Diary of David Brainerd, Memoirs of M'Cheyne, etc., The present letter was penned, between 1806 1809 during his residence at Dinapur [here,