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[Unpublished manuscript]. Duodecimo notebook, 150 x 100 mm, rebound in later marbled papered boards with morocco label to front lettered in gilt 'MISSIONARY AUTOGRAPHS / FOOCHOW - 1867'; [22] leaves, including a manuscript title-page with dedication to American Methodist minister Jonathan Kelsey Burr, and a total of approximately 60 autographs - mostly mounted cut signatures - of American, British and European missionaries and dignitaries serving in Foochow, Shanghai, Peking, Chefoo, Swatow, Amoy, Canton, Ningpo, Hankow, Tientsin and Hong Kong by the album's compiler, American Methodist missionary Rev. Stephen Livingstone Baldwin, who also neatly annotated the pages with brief biographical information relevant to each autograph, before presumably sending the notebook back to New Jersey as a gift for his friend, Rev. Burr; very well preserved throughout. A unique record of various foreign missionary and diplomatic circles in China during the 1860s. The autographs include those of Samuel Wells Williams, missionary and linguist, Secretary of the United States Legation to China; Rudolf Lechler of the Swiss Evangelical Missionary Society, Hong Kong; Charles A. Sinclair, British Consul, Foochow; George F. Seward, US Consul, Shanghai; Catherine Bonney, widow of Samuel William Bonney; missionaries of the American Reformed Dutch Mission at Amoy; missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) at Peking, including Elijah Bridgman's widow Eliza, and Henry Bridport; John Glasgow Kerr of the American Presbyterian Mission at Canton; John Preston and Samuel Hutton of the English Wesleyan Mission at Canton; Justus Doolittle, author of Social Life of the Chinese; Charles Hartwell of theABCFM, Foochow; Methodist Episcopal Church missionaries Erastus Wentworth, H. H. Lowry,Lucius Nathan Wheeler, Robert Samuel Maclay and Henrietta Maclay; Alexander Stronach and James Legge of the LMS; medical missionary John Carnegie of the English Presbyterian Mission; Maria Vrooman, wife of missionary, diplomat and cartographer Daniel Vrooman; Miss E. Magrath, independent teacher at a Hong Kong girls' school; and many more. Rev. Stephen Livingstone Baldwin (simplified Chinese: ??; traditional Chinese: ??; Pinyin: B?olíng; Foochow Romanized: B??-lìng; 1835-1902) was an American missionary to China, serving the Methodist Episcopal Church at Foochow for many years.Baldwin arrived at Shanghai with his first wife towards the end of 1858, and reached Foochow early in 1859. On a return voyage to America in 1861, Mrs Baldwin died; Baldwin married again in America, and returned to Foochow with his second wife, Esther ("Ettie") Baldwin, where the couple remained until 1870. Back in America, Baldwin held several pastorates, served as secretary of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and published Foreign Missions of the Protestant Churches in 1900. He died of typhoid fever in New York in 1902. Baldwin compiled this album of autographs for his friend, Rev. Jonathan Kelsey Burr (1825-1882), a fellow Methodist Episcopal minister from New Jersey.