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William Henry Gray Papers
The collection includes papers and correspondence relating to William H. Gray becoming a missionary, the overland journeys he took as a missionary, and his missionary work; a journal from Gray's 1837 overland journey to the East; materials relating to Gray's history of Oregon; and papers related to a land claim dispute with Josiah L. Parrish. Correspondents include fellow missionary Elkanah Walker and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions secretary David Greene.The manuscript journal of William Gray contains a record of his eastward journey in 1837 from Fort Vancouver to Utica, New York, to recruit additional missionaries for Henry H. Spalding's mission. In the journal, Gray describes his party's interactions with Indigenous peoples along the way, including an altercation with a band of Lakota (Sioux) on August 7, 1837 that, per his account, resulted in the deaths of several of his Indigenous guides and the loss of many of the party's horses and supplies. Also included is a typescript copy (1840-1842) of diary kept by Mary Augusta Dix Gray during her service at various missions, containing infrequent entries describing daily activities and life as a lay missionary.
Papers of William Henry Gray
Records comprising: certificates of baptism and apprenticeship for William Henry Gray and apprenticeship certificate for his father Thomas Gray (1793-1822); personal and business correspondence including letters regarding the purchase of land in South Australia in 1835, letters from his sister Elizabeth and uncle Joseph, and friends and acquaintances in South Australia including Thomas Young Cotter, Richard Fydell Lindsay and F.S.C. Driffield (1834-1897); copies of W.H. Gray's obituary including reminiscences of the early days settling in Adelaide in 1837; newspaper cuttings relating to Gray and Scammell family history; and miscellaneous papers including family history notes, letter from the widow of Frank Gray, and origin of street names in the suburb of Gray in Palmerston, Northern Territory. See below for details.
William Henry Gray Letter to H.H. Bancroft
Comments on his History of Oregon (1870).
Gray & His Poetry
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