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Dr. Charles Albert (1807-1870) received his education at Westbrook Seminary, in Portland, Maine U.S.A. and later at Cambridge University in England. His field notes regarding the Erōikāma people and the Ramai language which they speak were discovered shortly after his sudden disappearance in 1870. They were never formally collated and edited until this 1886 edition. | Dr. Charles Albert (1807-1870) received his education at Westbrook Seminary, in Portland, Maine U.S.A. and later at Cambridge University in England. His field notes regarding the Erōikāma people and the Ramai language which they speak were discovered shortly after his sudden disappearance in 1870. They were never formally collated and edited until this 1886 edition. | ||
Throughout his career as a | Throughout his career as a theologian, philosopher and amateur linguist, Dr. Albert maintained to close friends and family that he had discovered an alternative world as he called it. Being a man of Christian morals; these claims were dismissed as fantasy and his sanity was brought into question by the Church in Maine where he resided. After 1865, Dr. Albert ceased speaking publically about his alternative world and the stories he told about it were largely forgotten and blamed on stress and his somewhat-childish imagination. However, in 1870, at the age of 63, Dr. Albert went missing from his Portland home and was never seen again. It was believed at the time that he may have slipped from the bank of the Kennebec river and drowned while walking with his dog. His body has never been recovered. | ||
In 1871, after his family disposed of his estate, a folio of hand-written papers were discovered and donated to Westbrook Seminary. This large collection contained several notebooks in which he described his alternative world and the people who inhabited it which he claimed he had met on numerous occasions while visiting. | In 1871, after his family disposed of his estate, a folio of hand-written papers were discovered and donated to Westbrook Seminary. This large collection contained several notebooks in which he described his alternative world and the people who inhabited it which he claimed he had met on numerous occasions while visiting. | ||