Samoa,1868

Includes letters from: George Drummond, Upolu and Samoa - requests regular copies of Congregational Year Book and 'Christian World' John Chauner Williams, Samoa (consul) Samuel Whitmee, Samoa - describes European missionaries as bishops, says it will take 15-20 years before ordained Samoans can func...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/South Seas/Incoming correspondence/Box 31
Date(s) of creation: 16 Feb - 26 Dec 1868
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.02.02.195
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/South Seas/Incoming correspondence/Box 31
callnumber CWM/LMS/02/02/195
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/02/02/195
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/02/02/195
prefix_number 195
title Samoa,1868
scb_date_creation 16 Feb - 26 Dec 1868
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 33 items
format Archive
description Includes letters from: George Drummond, Upolu and Samoa - requests regular copies of Congregational Year Book and 'Christian World' John Chauner Williams, Samoa (consul) Samuel Whitmee, Samoa - describes European missionaries as bishops, says it will take 15-20 years before ordained Samoans can function independently, allowing withdrawal of foreign agency Samuel Davies, Samoa George Pratt (secretary), Samoa - Samoa missioanries adverse to request from Hervey Islands [South Cook islands] missionaries for Rarotongan teachers to join Samoans in mission to Lagoon Islands [Tuvalu]; having heard from Hiram Bingham, request ABCFM missionaries (via Dr Gulick of Honolulu) in Hawaii to agree a boundary on Latitude 4 degrees north of the equator between the LMS and American missionary spheres. George Scott Archibald Murray, Upolu - missionaries consider new John Williams will be quite large enough, unanimously against steam George Turner - returns a note from George Rolleston, professor of Anatomy, Oxford, having responded to his request for a particular species of bird
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_file_number Folder 6
scb_finding_aids Handlist available
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0002.0002.00195