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includes letters from:
Alexander Waugh, London - regret at George Burder's resignation as secretary of LMS
J Read, Stroud [Gloucestershire] - criticism of missionary participation in Pomare's coronation as abandoment of principle of protestant dissent
Adam Lillie, Gosport - arrived from Bombay [Mumbai]
John Paterson, Edinburgh
C Auber, East India House [London] - East India Company travel permission for Charles Piffard and Edward Ray to Calcutta, William Beynon to Madras [Chennai] and Thomas Salmon to Bombay [Mumbai] with their families
George Burder to Richard Knill - draft letter re Knill's propsoed return to Britain
joint letter from Rolan Balan and Dunave [Malagasy boys], Manchester
John Dean, Staindrop [Darlington, County Durham] - reported complaints against Madagascar missionaries
Richard Elliott, London and Bury - his advocacy of John Smith of Demerara
Thomas Rowland, Antananarivo - extract from letter giving annual report
William Roby, Manchester - description of John Smith's burial, Demerara with verses by James Montgomery (Sheffield) entitled 'The Missionary's Burial'
Richard Elliott, Bury [Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk] - description of John Smith's burial, Demerara
joint letter by Thomas Baird, George Logan and Finlay Stewart, Eastwood [Scotland] - resolution of Eastwood Bible, Missionary and Educational Society re 'cruel and illegal procedure'against John Smith
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