This series contains a journal segment and letters.
This series is arranged in chronological order of accession.
Box 3 Folder 16
Liberia journal segment, 1861
16 page journal segment describing three days in Monrovia, Liberia, in 1861, and an inland trip up the Mesurado River to visit the home of Leo L. Lloyd, who had escaped from slavery in the United States.
Box 3 Folder 17
Nassau letters, 1860 -- 1864
Letters received by Nassau, including two from family members while he was in West Africa, and a third from 1860, shortly after he'd been approved by the ABCFM Board as a missionary, from John Leighton Wilson, who preceded Nassau as a missionary in West Africa. This is a particularly significant letter as it came prior to Nassau's decision to where he would serve his appointment as missionary, and Wilson offers his advice and the possibility for consultation on the subject. Of the two family letters, one was sent by his father, Charles William Nassau, in 1864, and another by his sister, Isabella, from September 1862, which includes a fascinating detail about family and friends spending "most of the evening in the study re- and re- re reading the Pres. Emancipation Proclamation", shortly after the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation had been published. The collection also includes two envelopes with Nassau's markings recording his receipt of the letters.