| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/Africa/Odds/Livingstone, Box 2, 2B
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| Summary: |
Has received news of Thompson's appointment as Agent at Cape Town; accepts Thompson's offer of service in reference to the transmission of letters to and from his brother, Charles Livingstone, now settled in New York; enquires about the cost of agency in reference to letters, parcels, books, etc.; extends an invitation to visit the Lake country in the north; details of bills drawn for 1850, including his existing debts to the Society; reference to their mutual friend, Mrs Sewell [keeper of a boarding house with LMS connections at 57 Aldersgate Street, London, where Livingstone had stayed in 1838 and 1840].
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| Extent: |
4pp
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| Admin history: |
William Thompson (1811-1889), missionary to India, later settled in Cape Town (June 1850) as pastor of the Union Chapel and Agent for the southern Africa missions of the London Missionary Society (in succession to Dr John Philip, who had retired owing to old age and illness). |
| Access status: |
Open
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| User restrictions: |
For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance |
| Format: |
Archive
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