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Moore, Jessie T. Twenty Years in Assam, or Leaves from my Journal. Edited and Published by Mrs P.H. Moore. Nowgong Mrs P.H. Moore, at the Baptist Mission Press 1901
First edition pp.xiv, 222. One of 500 copies printed. A very good copy in original cloth. Small brown stain to corner of front few pages. Hinges strained.

A fascinating account of the hardships of daily life in Assam in the late nineteenth century, written and experienced by an American missionary in her religious duties. The publisher and editor Mrs P. H. Moore is also featured in the story as she published the Revised Assamese New Testament in Calcutta, which was considered crucial to the missionaries' efforts.