Contains some excellent biographical material. In regard to the personal appearance of Doctor and Mrs. Whitman, Dr. Parker says: "There is to me no good imaginary picture of them...I should recognize the faces of Doctor and Mrs. Whitman if I saw them; but I cannot call their appearance to mind fully; I do Mrs. Whitman's most. Certainly they are not the ideal Methodist clergy faces of Dr. Nixon's book fancies, whatever mav be said."
This manuscript was completed August 1, 1892, and donated to Whitman College Library. Has much material relating to Marcus Whitman. Dr. Parker thinks that Whitman's name has quite overshadowed that of his father, who established the Oregon mission of the A. B. C. F. M. He says it should not be called the Whitman Mission, as Whitman was in charge of only one of the four stations composing it.
Mission of the A. B. C. F. M. p. 33-72. Takes a middle ground in regard to Whitman's influence. Says that he did not save Oregon or any part of it, but that he did exercise a very real and potent political influence. Bound typewritten copy.
Mrs. Pringle was one of the Sager girls adopted by Doctor and Mrs. Whitman. She was a grown girl at the time of the massacre. A few years after the massacre she committed her recollections of it to paper. She still has the manuscript and has made it the basis for lectures. It throws much light on conditions at the station before and during the massacre Professor Meany, of the University of Washington, has procured a typewritten copy of this manuscript which he has bound and placed in his private library. He had two carbon copies made at the same time and these he has bound and presented, the one to Whitman College Library, and the other to the University of Washington Library.
