1954 The Life and Works of Miss M.H. Cornwall Legh, Rare Japanese Edition

Description: The Life and Works of Miss M.H. Cornwall Legh, L.L.A., by Taminosuke Yuki, Cornwall Lee Chronicle Publication Society, Kusatsu, 1954, half leather, 5 x 7.5", 12mo Fair condition. Wear to boards. Tips are bumped with exposed boards. Title on front board in black ink, both English and Japanese. Library catalog info sticker on spine. Title originally in gilt on spine, but gilt has faded. Library marginalia on endpapers. Stamp for The Japan Society of London on pastedowns and endpapers. Minor toning throughout textblock. Binding is cracked. Includes photos. Please see photos. Mary Helena Cornwall Legh (20 May 1857 - 18 December 1941), also known as "Nellie" Cornwall Legh, was a British Anglican missionary who devoted herself later in life to the welfare, education, and medical care of leprosy patients in Kusatsu, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Cornwall Legh graduated from St. Andrew's University in Scotland in 1886 with an LLA degree. Following the death of her mother in 1907, she made the decision to become a self-financed SPG missionary and traveled to Japan, where she spent her first eight years in service of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai Diocese of Ushigome. Cornwall Legh began missionary work in Kusatsu in 1916, establishing a kindergarten and a women's dormitory in a building previously used as a ryokan. In 1917, she established a clinic followed by various homes and schools. The administration of the mission and all buildings were paid for by her, although in later years, fundraising was also conducted in Japan, Britain, and the United States. FORN-TUB-0052-XX-2407-JC1080

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