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Seedtime In Kashmir

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Seedtime in Kashmir is a memoir of the medical missionary William Jackson Elmslie, prepared with his widow Margaret Duncan Elmslie, who shared his Kashmir work. Elmslie founded the first medical mission in the Kashmir valley in the 1860s, learning the language and treating thousands before his early death. The book records the hardships and beginnings of Christian medical work in the Himalayas. It is a primary source for the missionary history of nineteenth-century Kashmir. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.

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Margaret Duncan Elmslie

Margaret Duncan Elmslie preserved the life and work of physician William Jackson Elmslie through a volume assembled with W. Burns Thomson. Seedtime In Kashmir, published in 1875, combines memoir, correspondence, journal material, and accounts of medical and religious service in Srinagar.

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