Home Extra,(India) 1796-1797

includes letters from: copies of letters to Christian Sundius from a missionary [not named], on the Coromandel coast [East-facing coast North or South of modern Chennai] - work in province of Tanjore [Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu] J Ubele, London joint letter by Joseph Hardcastle and John Eyre expressing s...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Home/Home Office Extra/Box 1B
Date(s) of creation: 8 Oct 1795 - 24 Dec 1817
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/Home/Home Office Extra/Box 1B
Summary: includes letters from: copies of letters to Christian Sundius from a missionary [not named], on the Coromandel coast [East-facing coast North or South of modern Chennai] - work in province of Tanjore [Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu] J Ubele, London joint letter by Joseph Hardcastle and John Eyre expressing symoathy to Danish missionaries at Tranquebar [Taranambadi] correspondence between Robert Cowie, London and Brighton, his brothers John Cowie, Burwanu or Barwanna [?Barwani] and Cawnpore [Kanpur], India and George Cowie) re mission to India; because of obstacles up-country, suggests missionaries start at Calcutta typed copy of joint letter by Robert Haldane, David Bogue and Greville Ewing to directors of East India Company typed copy of joint letter by James Neale and John Love to directors of East India Company replies to the above two letters by William Ramsay (secretary), East India House [London] Robert Haldane, Edinburgh to John Eyre (for the Evangelical Magazine) - East India Company's refusal to admit missionaries Missionary Society memorandum on proposed mission to Hindoostan [India] draft report on mission to Sirampur [Serampore, Shrirampur] and likely costs of transport via Copenhagen resolution of Missionary Society directors, London, (1797) to send 2 missionaries to Serampore George Burder, London (1817) - requesting directors of East India Company to permit Thomas Beighton, Samuel Milton, John ince and Robert Fleming to land at Madras [Chennai] en route for Malacca [Melaka]
Extent: 23 items
Access status: Open
Language: English
File number: Folder 6, Jacket C
Finding aids: Detailed list available at the School of Oriental and African Studies for 1764-1800, Box 1, folders 1 to 6 (ref: A1) is available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library.
Format: Archive