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includes letters from:
Robert Arthington, Leeds [Yorkshire] - 6 letters on extension of missions
John Angell James, Birmingham
William Monk, Cambridge - formation of Universities Mission to Central Africa [UMCA, later integrated with SPG in USPG]
James William Japp, Montrose [Scotland]
Robert Halley, New College [London]
Campbell Gillan (South Africa Colonization Society], Westminster [London] - plan for locating settlers in Kaffraria [Ciskei, Western Cape, South Africa] with enclosed printed despatch from Sir George Grey, governor of Cape Colony and High Commissioner of British Kaffraria]
Thomas Mann, Trowbridge [Wiltshire]
Joseph Mullens, Norwich and Wellingborough [Northamptonshire]
Robert Cotton Mather, Tonbridge [Kent] - revision of Hindustani [Hindi] Scriptures
Stephen Williams, London - successful campaign to resist imposition of poor rates on buildings of charitable and scientific institutions
Joseph Van Someren Taylor, Lee [Kent] - offer to return to India
Thomas Simpson, Preston ]Lancashire] - using Lancashire profit from Indian trade as argument for supporting missions
William Urwick, Dublin
Henry Richard (the Peace Society) - missionaries should be told to restrain 'the unchristian spirit and conduct of our countrymen' towards Indians especially following the exacerbation of feeling in the Indian Mutiny [Sepoy rebellion/Great Revolt]
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