Letter from Thomas Lafon, North Fairhaven, to Amos Augustus Phelps, Augt 13th 1844
Description:
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, Thomas Lafon discusses the circumstances around the death of Mr. Locke. He gives some extracts of letters informing about his death. After mentioning the seriousness of his wife’s illness, Lafon requests that Phelps obtain a copy of the instructions of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the several reinforcements of missionaries to the Sandwich Islands and send it to him.
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
On verso, the delivery address is "Rev. A. A. Phelps, Boston, Mass." It was postmarked on Aug. 16 in North Fairhaven, Mass.
