Lot 4003
1851 (21 Sept.) folded letter from "New Barmen, Ovaherero Land" written by Emma Hahn to her sister in London (2.4.52) via Walvis Bay, showing "Ship Letter" straight-line handstamp in red, rated "8", Very Fine and interesting missionary letter.
Estimate 7,500 - 10,000
Emma Hahn writes about the visit of Francis and Anderson, and extending their mission northward. Francis Galton explored South West Africa between 1850-52. A cousin of Charles Darwin, he later founded the eugenics movement. "Mr. Galton has returned from the Obampo country and is now gone more eastward, we hear that a missionary was likely to arrive at a Namaqua station a fortnight's journey eastward from this, who has made his way through a country hitherto considered impossible by the natives. - i.e., From the Lake Guami (Ngami) of the discovery of which you have doubtless heard… The Missionary we suppose to be Mr. Livingston who had already penetrated to the Lake with Mr. Oswell - and who was formerly at the Kuruman - but has been for some time settled among the Batlapi 200 miles north of the Kuruman. It is just now a very interesting period for poor benighted Africa".
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