South Africa,1815
includes letters from: Cornelius Kramer, Goudenie [?near Stellenbosch] Missionary Society, London - deployment of missionaries to Lattakoo, Malapeetze etc Maglett Smith, Cape Town George Thom, Cape Town and Saldanha Bay [Vredenburg] - wording of stone memorial to Dr Johannes Vanderkemp; plan for cha...
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CWM/LMS/Africa/South Africa/Incoming correspondence/Box 6 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
3 Jan 1815 - 16 Dec 1816 |
| Level: |
File |
| Format: | Archive |
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/Africa/South Africa/Incoming correspondence/Box 6 |
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| Summary: |
includes letters from:
Cornelius Kramer, Goudenie [?near Stellenbosch]
Missionary Society, London - deployment of missionaries to Lattakoo, Malapeetze etc
Maglett Smith, Cape Town
George Thom, Cape Town and Saldanha Bay [Vredenburg] - wording of stone memorial to Dr Johannes Vanderkemp; plan for chapel; death of Christian Albrecht
James Read, Bethelsdorp - boer rebellion
Missionary Society, London (to Lord Charles Somerset, Cape governor); (to George Thom): caution over Cape Town chapel, Society not responsible for costs
John Campbell - brief extracts from 3 missionaries' journals
William Anderson, Nieuw Veld (border of Colony) and Griquatown [Griekwastad] - death of Lambert Janz
Mewes Bakker [Mews Bakker, Meeuwes Janse Bakker], Stellenbosch (in Dutch and English)
crew of 'late US brig Syren', Cape Town - thanks for prison visits, preaching and scriptures
Pieter Hammes, Cape Town
Frederick Hooper, Cape Town - offer for missionary service, with recommendation by George Thom; helping in mission
John Seidenfaden, Caledon [Western Cape] (in Dutch and English)
joint letter from John Evans, Robert Hamilton, George Barker and Joseph Williams, Cape Town (added note by George Thom)
G R Blackburn & Co, Madeira
John Evans, George Drosdy [Drostdy],[Pacaltsdorp] and Bethelsdorp - saw slaves sold by auction
Lieutenant Colonel J G Cuyler, Uitenhage
Henry Alexander, colonial office (Cape Town)
Arie Vos, Tulbagh (in Dutch)
H L de Lange, Tulbagh
George Barker, Hooge Kraal [Pacaltsdorp, George]
Jacobus Johannes Vos, Cape Town - formal gift of land for chapel and parsonage (Dutch and English, sealed and witnessed)
Carl Pacalt, High Kraal [Hooge Kraal, later Pacaltsdorp/George]
W D Jennings, Drostdy, Uitenhage
Johan Ullbricht [John Ullbright], Theopolis
Leonhardt Ebner, Pella (in translation)
Joseph Williams, Bethelsdorp
John Evans, 'Boshemen's Settlement'- marriages of John Bartlett and William Corner
joint letter from James Read and John Messer, Bethelsdorp
A E Burgman, Caledon - rules of Caledon auxiliary missionary society
James Read, Uitenhage and Griquatown [Griekwastad] - defence of his statements re cruelty to Africans; report of missions in Africa and of Bethelsdorp station, 1815 |
| Extent: |
71 items |
| Access status: |
Open |
| Language: | English Dutch |
| File number: |
Folders 1 and 2 |
| Finding aids: |
Detailed lists for incoming correspondence from Southern Africa, 1797-1899 (lists E6 & E7), are available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library. Includes detailed precis of letters up to 1866. |
| Format: | Archive |