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Lot Essay
William Bawn Addis was born on September 17th 1800 in Hambrook, Gloucestershire, and died at Cooanoor (Coonoor), in Tamil Nadu, India, on February 18th, 1871. He spent 31 years in Coimbatoor (Mettupalayam) after a first posting at Nagercoil as a Protestant missionary (https://surman.english.qmul.ac.uk/images.php?dbid=00112&seq=1). W. B. Addis authored A Brief Account of the First Thirty Years of the Coimbatoor Mission, South India, in Connexion with the London Missionary Society, Being the First Protestant Mission in that Province (Foster Press, 1866).
In a letter from Addis to his family offered with this lot, the missionary hopes that '[the drawings] will give [them] a better idea of the people [of India] than any [they] can get in England. They were obviously sent to England as a souvenir of his time in India.
In a letter from Addis to his family offered with this lot, the missionary hopes that '[the drawings] will give [them] a better idea of the people [of India] than any [they] can get in England. They were obviously sent to England as a souvenir of his time in India.