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A collection of mostly biographical ephemera related to Father Damien and his work among the Lepers of Molokai. All items are very good or better. A full list is below: (1) Stevenson, Robert Louis. *Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu.* London: Chatto and Windus, 1890. First separate edition ("Reprinted from "The Scots Observer"). 12mo. 30 pp. Original printed wrappers. (2) Stoddard, Charles Warren. *The Lepers of Molokai. Reprinted from the "Ave Maria."* Notre Dame, Indiana: "Ave Maria" Press, (1893). Second edition (first issued in 1884 under the title *The Martyrs of Molokai*). 12mo. 84 pp. *BAL* 18944. Inscribed on the half-title by the author: "This is the second form in which this sketch has appeared. It was first published serially in the "Ave Maria" of Notre Dame, Ind. Father Damien himself corrected those papers and objected to the title I had given them -- 'The Martyrs of Molokai.' Charles Warren Stoddard." Laid in is an autograph letter, signed by Stoddard, 23 September 1889, to Rossiter Johnson, editor of Appleton's "Encyclopedia of Biography," requesting that he add to his sketch: "Failing health compelled Mr. Stoddard's retirement from Notre Dame in June 1886. In Aug 88 he revisited Europe, remaining a year abroad. While in Rome he received its appointment to the chair of English Literature in the new Catholic University in Washington, D.C., dedicated Mar 13th 1889. Mr. Stoddard was the first to publish to the world in English the remarkable story of its famous Father Damien, Apostle to the Lepers. He visited Father Damien at his leper settlement in Oct. 1884, and in '85 published an account of that visit in a tractate issued by the 'Ave Maria' Press, Notre Dame, Ind., entitled 'The Lepers Of. Molokai.'" [The Stoddard entry in our copy of the 1899 printing of Appleton's Cyclopedia does not include this information supplied by Stoddard.] A second autograph letter, signed by Stoddard 21 June 1905, to a "Mr. Young," informing him of his visit to New Jersey to battle the effects of insomnia is also laid in. Original printed orange wrappers (chip to upper corner of front wrapper). (3) [Caption title]: *Father Damien, the Apostle of the Lepers (1840-1889)* (Brooklyn, NY: International Catholic Truth Society, [no date, 1900 or later, first published London, 1889). First American edition(?). 12mo. 32 pp. This edition apparently unrecorded; not located on *OCLC* which does record several copies of the 1889 London edition (but none in the U.S.). Original printed cream wrappers (partly sunned), stapled. (4) [Memorial card] *In Memory of a Martyr Priest. / Father Damien, / Died April 10, 1889. / [Four-line quote from the works of poet John B. Tabb] / To Commemorate Christian duty, heroically discharged -- / a gracious thought. / Charleston, S.C., Easter, 1891* [complete text].Charleston, South Carolina. [No place]: 1891. Blue-printed decorated cream color card, 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. A little soiling. (5) [Cabinet photograph] Portrait photograph. 5.5" x 4". Mounted on thick stock, photographer's name in lower margin of James Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, Maryland, dressed as a cardinal and seated. Baltimore, Maryland: Bachrach & Bro. Photo, [circa 1891]. Cardinal Gibbons (1834-1921) was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 1887 and oversaw the founding of Catholic University that year. The photo is inscribed across the image "Faithfully yrs. in X / J. Card. Gibbons." (6) Five long periodical and newspaper clippings (1923-1933), concerning Father Damien and his life and that of one of his successors, Brother Joseph Dutton (1843-1931), a lay missionary from Vermont who traveled to Molokai in 1886 and stayed to the end of his life, carrying on the work of Father Damien. (7) A typed letter, signed by a Catholic nun Dec. 13, 1927, concerning the publication of a biography of Dutton.
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