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First edition. xiii including frontispiece photographic portrait, 376, 9 pp. index. Publisher's teal cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. A bit cocked and the blank FFE appears to have been excised, meaning book now opens to the blank recto of the frontispiece portrait. A scarce title, and important pioneer record of New Mexico, printed in a small edition on the press of the New Mexico Spanish and English Mission. (Back in the 1960s, Van Allen Bradley of the Chicago Daily News catalogued a copy of this book, already uncommon, as "Life of Mrs. Fmily J. Harwood," insisting he saw a capital "F" where the "E" would usually be expected. Whether he had in hand a test printing with a typesetting error soon corrected, or a later copy from plates on which the tail of the "E" had eroded, we do not know.) "In 1869 Bishop Edward R. Ames appointed (the Rev. Thomas) Harwood to New Mexico, where he and his wife served together for nearly thirty-three years, until Emily's death in 1902. In a community that was predominately Roman Catholic, the Harwoods successfully established several Methodist schools. In particular, a school for girls was opened in the early 1870s. By 1886, the Harwoods had founded six elementary schools and two academies.In 1879 Harwood founded a devotional periodical, El Abogado Cristiano, with articles in both English and Spanish. Additionally, Harwood published Spanish-language Sunday school lessons and religious tracts. After Emily's death, Dr. Harwood assisted in writing the biography of his late wife, and wrote a two-volume "History of New Mexico Spanish and English Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church" from 1850 to 1910 -- both works published by his own El Abogado Press." Howes K49. 385 pp. including Index. Reduced from $1,000. Seller Inventory # 009770
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