Very solid copy of the rare Third edition, with new material [34pp additional], of Melinda Rankin's detailed account of her travels and work in Mexico during the 1840's, 50's, and 60's.
Excellent reading including an examination of the sphere of women's work in the mission of the church, leaving Mississippi for Texas and then Mexico, first sight of a live Mexican, opening of a school for Mexican children [the first bilingual school in Texas], persecution, a revolution of religious freedom in Mexico, the invasion of Brownsville, French intervention in the Civil War, one of our company murdered by rebels, account of her time during the civil war working with freedmen in New Orleans, return to Mexico, work in Oaxaca, death of Protestants by a mob, the Mexican people, etc.,
None at auction since 1985.
Rankin, Melinda. Twenty Years among the Mexicans, a Narrative of Missionary Labor. Cincinnati. Central Book Concern. 1881. 233pp.
Good + to very good -. Textually very solid, crisp, and clean. Cloth a bit faded with some sporadic color loss, but still attractive and sound.
