South Africa,1837
includes letters from: George Augustus Kolbe, Philippolis George Barker, Theopolis - death of his wife [née Sarah Williams]; report and (home made) schedule for year John Canham, Cape Town John Brownlee, Buffalo River/Williams Town [officially named in 1835: King William's Town] - bought some govern...
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CWM/LMS/Africa/South Africa/Incoming correspondence/Box 15 |
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9 Jan- 20 Dec 1837 |
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SOAS Archive |
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CWM.LMS.05.02.02.048 |
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archive |
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Archive & Special Collections |
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Reference only |
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CWM/LMS/Africa/South Africa/Incoming correspondence/Box 15 |
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CWM/LMS/05/02/02/048 |
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CWM/LMS/05/02/02/048 |
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CWM/LMS/05/02/02/048 |
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048 |
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South Africa,1837 |
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9 Jan- 20 Dec 1837 |
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File |
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7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File |
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55 items |
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Archive |
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includes letters from:
George Augustus Kolbe, Philippolis
George Barker, Theopolis - death of his wife [née Sarah Williams]; report and (home made) schedule for year
John Canham, Cape Town
John Brownlee, Buffalo River/Williams Town [officially named in 1835: King William's Town] - bought some government buildings for school etc; thanks LMS directors for help to make good his losses through war; people coming back; itinerating; Jan Tsatzoe not yet returned
Theophilus Atkinson, Philippolis - annual report of work and building house
Frederick Gottlob Kayser, Knapps Hope
Peter Wright, Griquatown [Griekwastad] - great progress, increase in church membership
Jane Philip, Cape Town - half-yearly accounts; thanks to Religious Tract Society for books; missionary students wish for training seminary; Paarl chapel taken over by Rhenish mission [Rheinischen Missionsgesellschaft]
William Anderson, Pacaltsdorp - copy of memorial to government re boundary of Pacaltsdorp, to safeguard rights of Africans, with response;annual report
Edward Williams, Cape Town
John Munro, Grahamstown - need for missionary to African settlement on Fish river, itinerating visit there; attempt to build school within grant; annual report
John Messer, Uitenhage - purchase of mission house, building gallery in church; journey to Elephant's River [Olifants river, Northern Cape]; annual report
William Elliott, Paarl - French Hoek [Franschhoek] now mission of its own; new district opened, new members in church
Thomas Edwards, Theopolis
John Locke, Cape Town - day schools going well but Sunday schools lack discipline; Christianity at low ebb, Islam flourishing
John Philip, London - statement to LMS directors on conduct of mission in Africa, history of different stations, missionaries' need for support from home, unique opening at Cape Town now slaves free
Adam Robson, Port Elizabeth - tribute to African teacher on his death; thanks for money voted to build school; enquiry from Mrs Evans [widow of John Evans] for particulars of her late husband's LMS service
Michael Wimmer, Steinkopf
Isaac Hughes, Griquatown - taung chief Mahura sent his son to Britain for education
James Kitchingman, Bethelsdorp - annual report
Aldin Grant(American missionary), Bethelsdorp
Rogers Edwards, Port Elizabeth
Christopher Sass, Theopolis
Arie Vos, Tulbagh (in Dutch) - annual report
Henry Helm, Caledon - annual report for Caledon Institution
joint annual report by Peter Wright and Isaac Hughes, Griquatown
Charles Hyman, Uitenhage - report of auxiliary missionary society
Henry Schmelen, Komaggas - annual report
Albert Van Lingen, Graaff-Reinet - annual report
report of auxiliary missionary society, Port Elizabeth
schedules from Tulbagh, Paarl, Komaggas and Bethelsdorp, giving statistics for 1837 |
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Open |
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English Dutch |
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English Dutch |
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Folder 3 & Fldr 4, Jkts A to C |
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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. |
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CWM |
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CWM.00LMS.0005.0002.0002.00048 |