[Prevaux, Francis Edward, Reverend, Attributed to] (1822-1860). An Interesting Original Autograph Letter Signed “Frank E. Prevaux,” Written by a Young New England Port Worker (Future Baptist Missionary in San Francisco and Principal of the San Francisco Academy, Rev. F.E. Prevaux), Mentioning His Dining in the “Seamen’s Home” (Possibly, in Providence, Rhode Island), Work in Port, His “Theological Course” and Interactions with “an Old Tar” Who “Has Lately Run Away from a British Man of War, Was in the Late War between England and China and is Pretty Well Scarred Up”. [Likely, Providence, R.I., ca. 1840s].