1843 Oct 10-12. Anna Gurney to Priscilla Johnston, giving her an account of the Rev. Samuel Crowther, …
1843; Gale Group;
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pp 462-69 1843 Oct 10-12. Anna Gurney to Priscilla Johnston, giving her an account of the Rev. Samuel Crowther, whose African name was Ajayi, describing his appearance, the dinner party at the Cottage at which Mrs and Miss Hoare and Mrs Opie were also present and at which he recounted the story of his early days in slavery, published in Schon's account of the Niger Expedition in the form of a letter. She also describes their work together on the Yoruba language in the company of Mrs Wynne and her subsequent lesson in the Irish language by Mr Wynne which had led to confusion in her mind. She comnents on Crowther's understanding of the principles of language, his scrupulous attention to meaning in his translation of the scriptures in which he satisfied Sir Robert Inglis's requirements as laid down in a conversation at Brick Lane with Hanson. She also expresses an opinion on the sections of the translations of passages from the scripture which he had published with his vocabulary and mentions that Buxton had called her to task for doing so because she had only just begun to learn the language. She reports on and quotes the sermon delivered by Crowther in North Repps church, saying that a "wooly head" no longer looked unnatural in that pulpit and that those who heard it were warm in their praise. After describing how Crowther had listened to Priscilla's letter to Edward dealing with the history of Buxton's anti-slavery work up to 1833 she expresses regret that she and Andrew could not have been present during his visit to Northrepps because of the way she had worked with her father at that time. She had shewn Crowther the volumes of extracts accumulated by Sarah Maria Buxton and talked with him about her, had shown him many of the books on her shelves and tried to impress upon him the wealth of English and Latin literature and scholarship. She had also persuaded him to speak to the servants and to examine the children at the school on scriptural dates, had taken him on a tour of the new road and herring house at Overstrand, (which had provided a supply of herrings for Langley to sell in Sierra Leone), the village itself and the village library, all of which had impressed him as models to aim at in reforms in Africa. She had got him to speak of his wife, a Yoruba girl to whom he had been married for fourteen years, his five children and of his affection for Mr and Mrs Schon. (Copy.)
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