Description:

Correspondence and accounts of Thomas Pyne

Date(s) of creation:	1835-c 1975
Level:	Collection
Format:	Archive

Reference number:

MS 380668

Summary:

Papers, 1835-c1975, of and relating to the Rev Thomas Pyne, comprising correspondence and accounts, 1839-1845 and undated, documenting Pyne's guardianship of (John) Ossoo Ansah and (William) Quanti Massah in England (1840), associated expenses, and aspects of their trip including invitations to dinner, entrance permits to London Zoo and to George Heriot's Hospital [School], Edinburgh, undated plan of a breakwater, Falmouth(?), undated print of Brighton Pavilion and other ephemera relating to places visited, photographs of paintings of the princes, and various visiting cards; other correspondence and papers of Pyne, 1835-1873 and undated, including printed Thanksgiving sermon preached at St Peter's Church, New York, including anti-slavery sentiments, 1835, pamphlets by Pyne on peace, 1844 and undated, and astronomy, 1852, a letter from L'Institut d'Afrique to Pyne concerning honorary membership, 1843, miscellaneous pamphlets relating to African affairs, and a photograph of Pyne, 1870; correspondence, notes, transcripts from original documents, and other papers, 1950-1953, c1975 and undated, concerning Pyne and his papers, and the two princes, including their portraits.

Main author:

Pyne; Thomas (1801-1873); clergyman

Extent:

1 box

Admin history:

Born in London, 1801; son of a leather merchant; studied at St John's College, Cambridge; BA, 1824; MA, 1832; ordained in the Anglican church; the family emigrated to America, 1833; appointed Rector of St Peter's, New York, and Librarian of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States; was dismissed after preaching a Thanksgiving sermon advocating emancipation of slaves, 1835; returned to London and became curate of Tooting (Surrey); given responsibility for the guardianship of two princes f ... View more

Custodial history:

The records passed from Thomas Pyne's daughters to the Rev T A Beetham of the Methodist Missionary Society in the 1950s.

Acquisition:

Presented to SOAS by the Methodist Church Overseas Division in 1996.

Access status:

Open

Language:

English
French
Arabic

Finding aids:

Unpublished draft handlist

Related material:

Further information on the princes appears in War and Colonial Department correspondence relating to Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast at the Public Record Office (Ref: CO 267).

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