The health of Mrs.Crane obliged her and her husband to return home, and ask for a release from their connection with the Board.

Adrianople was thus left, for a time, without a missionary.

The death of Mr.and Mrs.Meriam stirred up several young men in the school at Philippopolis who became active and successful colporters in the surrounding villages.

Many of the people in Sophia were found to possess the Scriptures, and a considerable number were known to read them with interest; but as soon as the fact became known to their acquaintance, they were subjected to persecution.
At Samokov, a pleasant town nine hours to the southeast of Sophia, with a Bulgarian population of ten thousand, there were encouraging indications, and that place proving to be more healthful and a better centre than Sophia, the station was removed thither in 1869.
In 1863, the missionaries of the American Board and the Methodists working in this field held a meeting at Eski Zagra, for cultivating the friendly relations already existing between them.

Dr.Wood and Mr.Isaac G.Bliss were present from the Armenian Mission.