ABSTRACT
A number of letters assembled here were written to Dr Thomas Chalmers, of Edinburgh. The first in the series are excerpts of letters of Mary Kinnear, a Scottish immigrant in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, who is sending more information to Chalmers. The next is from Mitchell King, President of the Presbyterian Church in Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, in which King expresses his wish to recruit a new minister from Scotland. King defends the region’s health and climate, admitting that those features have discouraged prospective immigrants in the past, and may be a concern for a Scotsman. Two more letters from 1843 appear later in this volume.
