first edition Publisher's brick red cloth.
[n.d., ca. 1875] · London:
by [ Hincksman, Dorothy Hobson Jones. ] Hannah, John
London: Wesleyan Conference Office, [n.d., ca. 1875] First edition? Undated, but the text refers to the 1826 wreck occurring "about fifty years" previous. OCLC records four copies of this edition, only one in the US (University of Miami), and two copies of another undated London (Charles Kelly) edition, neither in the US. Publisher's brick red cloth. . Twelvemo. . With a frontisportrait of Hincksman and three full-page illustrations of scenes from the shipwreck Binding is remarkably clean and bright. Some toning to first and last few leaves. Ink ownership inscription dated 1879. Blind embossed gift stamp of the Wesleyan Methodist Home and Foreign Missionary Committee to corner of title-page. A near-fine copy. In 1826, the Maria shipwrecked off the coast of Antigua. Aboard the Maria were "five Missionaries, two of their wives, four children, and two servants, besides the boat's crew and another passenger," but only Dorothy Jones Hincksman (1802 – 1859), one of the missionary wives, survived the ordeal. Though many of the passengers survived the wreck itself, all but Hincksman drowned over the course of the two days it took to conduct a rescue. The tragedy received quite a bit of press at the time: reports of the wreck appeared in The Missionary Register, The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, and other Christian publications, and the event had somewhat of an afterlife in publications like Stories, Sketches, Facts and Incidents: Illustrative of the Providence of God in Connexion with the Missionary Enterprise (1868), which cited Hincksman's miraculous survival as an act of God.
(Inventory #: 17675)