Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-14
MORE HISTORIC
M|SS|VES TO Be
/ SOLD BY NELSON
Include Letters by Eliot, Lin
coin, Poe, Grant, Whitman
and Browning.

NEW YORK, April H.-Another
portion of the famous historical IL
brary Of William Nelson, of Pater-
son, N. j., is to be offered for SAFE.
The collection consists of autograph
letters, historical documents and
manuscripts. There Is considerable
literature relative to New Jersey.
The collection Is considered one OF
the most important that has been
put Up at auction in New YORK In
years. The sale will take place
Thursday afternoon and evening ana
Friday afternoon in the Anderson
galleries, 2S4 Madison avenue. A por-
eion of the Nelson collection was solo
there last fall.
One of the scarcest of American
autographs is that of John Eliot, the
apostle to the Indians, famous LOT
his translation of the Bible into the
language of the Naticks. lndeed'
there is no record of a sale of an
autograph letter by him during the
nast twenty-five years or more. IN
the coming sale, however, there are
no less than four of his letters, two
of them written in 1852 and the others
In 1854 and 1657-a'l of theem TO kew.
Jonathan Hammer, a famous NON
nonforunist minister In England
whom Eliot met there when ootn
were studying at Cambridge. All the
letters are long. all deal with actual
Facts In Eliot's life and all We're
written at Roxbury, where Elot nVeo
when he made his visits to the IN
dams.
Eliot begins by expressing his graf
a1ude that the Lord had unexpectealy
made Hammer a messenger OF IN
couraent. and supply among these
ooor indians" In touching words he
expresses his gratitude for the as
sistance received and says 1t is en-
tirely due ito the Lord VINO nath
never failed me in this work.
Museum Work Told.
cnaal,;nq of his work among the
indians, he writes:
"After several years preaching to
chem the Lord opened their hearts 10
desire baptism, to desire churcn es-
ate and ministry whereby to desire
all body ordinances and to ENJOY CO.
Aapifation and civile government, as
gubservlent unto and greatly conduc-
'1g unto the spiritual ways. In TINS
order they have been taught .ney
must have visible civility peIo1e ,ney
can rightly injoy visible sanctif1cation
in ecclesiastical communion, how we
looked out a place fit for to begin,
,yhere a competent number OF people
might have subsistence together In
che year." 1T.
The reference here is to the Indian
town of Natick that Eliot had FOUNDED
Two years before. He tells how MS
work among the Indians progresses
and concludes by giving his opinion
OF what goods should be sent to the
indians: "Strong linen CLOTH good
nempen cloth and buckram, because
An the hot sumres the Indians delight
DO zoe in linnen and work, If In any
garment only linnen garment II they
can get it.
Evidently he received the goods, and
they came by the Mayfiower, the fam
Gus lark of the Puritans," which was
still carrying passengers ana mes
pages back and forth, for with the
eliot letters is the "Invoyce of Goods
sent on ye Mayfiower of Boston MAS
4er Tho: Weber for in New England,
Consigned unto mr.. John Elliott Pas
Tor of We Church at Roxbury, pr mr.,
Jonathan Hammer wyth Cost d
Chardges," etc, consisting of one page
2olio, dated 1853.
In the second letter Eliot speaks at
length of his work as a religious
reader of the Indians. At this time
ne was probably preparing his famous
primer in the Massachusetts indian
language. which was printed in 1854,
mt the time that the third of these
letters was written. OF that primer
not even a fragment exists today.
The fourth letter was written about
che time that Elliot's edition of the
Psalms In the Indian language was
going through the press of Samuel
Green-another book of which no
copy has come down to us. 1t is ex-
traordinary that letters like these
have been so well preserved, and
they shed a great light upon the life
and lahors of one of the most ia
NOUS OF the ministers to the In
dians.
Colonial journal.
Among the New York material is
che original autograph journal of
Cedwallnder Golden. son of the Ia
nous lieutenant-g of Colonial
times. covering 300 auarto pages and
embracing a large amount of valua-
BILE information regarding the Revo-
tuition. Golden was suspected by the
leaders of the Revolution and ar.
rested several times. On one occa-
sion he was imprisoned in a sloop on
The Hudson.
This sale is rich in material OF
the old French and Indian wars and
Hhe war of the Revolutions: the let