1838 THE MISSIONARY HERALD. Trail of Tears, Hawaiian Missions, Folding Map of Asia.

Contents include substantive content related to missionary work in Syria, among the Nestorians of Persia, among the Moslems in Persia, various outposts in India, Elijah Bridgeman and his work in China, Siam, Singapore, extensive content related to the work at the Sandwich Islands [i.e. Titus Coan, Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, Oahu, etc.], Java, Borneo, Africa, South Africa, missionary work among Jewish peoples, in Palestine, etc., 

The correspondence related to the above is lengthy, often focusing on the domestic issues at hand culturally, civilly, appreciations and critiques of culture, etc., and often includes correspondence from "native" converts as well. 

Extensive content related to work among Native Americans, including the Cherokee Mission. 1838 was especially traumatic for the Cherokee, being the height of the Trail of Tears enacted to clear the Cherokee from the Southeast to Oklahoma, Creek Indians, the Choctaw, The Osage, The Pawnee, Sioux, Ojibwa, Mackinaw, etc., 

Includes charts showing the dispersion of missionaries geographically, by speciality and training, etc., 

All told, The Missionary Herald remains one of the most important and extensive primary resource assemblages of the era extant. 

Anonymous. The Missionary Herald: Containing the Proceedings at Large of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions: With a General View of Other Benevolent Operations. For the Year 1838. Vol. XXXIV. Published at the Expense of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; and all the Profits Devoted to the Promotion of the Missionary Cause. Boston. Printed by Crocker and Brewster. 1838. 488pp.

A good + copy, bound in half leather. Attractive. The front hinge is slightly breached, but the whole remains solid and crisp. Some scattered light foxing and non-detracting ex library markings and labels.