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Auction: 6016 - Stamps & Covers of the World/The D J Norris Collection of Ceylon
Lot: 738

x Cape of Good Hope 1876 (29 Aug.) mourning envelope from Alice via Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth to "Rev. Dr. Stewart Livingstone, Lake Nyassa Quilimane", bearing 6d. lilac with triangular cancellation and with Alice oval d.s. in lower left corner, Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth c.d.s. on reverse; the envelope with some staining and other faults though to an unusual destination. Photo Estimate £ 500-600Note: James Stewart first visited Africa in 1861 when he accompanied Mary Livingstone who was rejoining her husband. He was with Livingstone when she died at Shupanga. He visited Africa again in 1866 when, with his wife, he became a missionary of the Free Church of Scotland and Lovedale. There he planned an elementary education for the many. When the Rev. William Govan retired in 1870 he became principal. Stewart insisted that all pupils should pay fees and although this was a revolutionary idea it was accepted and a general rate of £4 per annum per pupil was imposed. In 1870 Stewart began the publication of the "Kafir Express", a monthly magazine in English and Xhosa. . He attended Livingstone´s funeral in London in 1874. In 1876 Stewart travelled to Africa again, having obtained large donations to set up a mission in central Africa. In 1876 he travelled to Nyasaland and by the time he left Africa in 1877 the foundations of the Livingstonia mission at the southern end of Lake Nyassa were well and truely laid. He died in 1905. A copy of his entry from the Dictionary of Natural Biography accompanies the cover

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