a very valuable missionary-box from the ladies of St. John's Parish Guild

I desire to acknowledge here the receipt of a very valuable missionary-box from the ladies of St. John’s Parish Guild, Washington City, Mrs. E. C. W. Chubb, Secretary. The box contained, besides many articles of value for my family, a complete outfit for myself, including a handsome surplice and stole, for all of which they have our most cordial thanks.

(Source: The Rev. Israel Harding, Parochial Report, St. Mary’s, Kinston, 1882 Journal of Convention, 124)