South Africa,1846
includes letters from: W Y Thomson, Philippolis Jane Philip, Cape Town - half-yearly accounts; Henry Calderwood, Fort Beaufort and King William's Town - missionaries ordered out of Xhosa territory, war; invited by government to treat with Macomo government, no peace terms achieved John Philip, Cape...
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/Africa/South Africa/Incoming correspondence/Box 22 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
16 Jan - 3 Dec 1846 |
| Level: |
File |
| Format: | Archive |
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/Africa/South Africa/Incoming correspondence/Box 22 |
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| Summary: |
includes letters from:
W Y Thomson, Philippolis
Jane Philip, Cape Town - half-yearly accounts;
Henry Calderwood, Fort Beaufort and King William's Town - missionaries ordered out of Xhosa territory, war; invited by government to treat with Macomo government, no peace terms achieved
John Philip, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth - copies Joseph Hardcastle's view on need for agent at Cape (1811); Henry Calderwood appointed commissioner
James Cameron, Cape Town - Madagascar news
Joseph Gill, Cape Town
John Crombie Brown, Cape Town
Robert Taylor, Theopolis
James Read, Kat River - destruction of mission stations in war; news of printing press
Adam Robson, Port Elizabeth
John Melvill, Matjes Drift
Gottlob Schreiner, Colesberg - resignation
Thomas Philip, Cape Town - refusal of professorial chair; starting seminary at Hankey
John Brownlee, Fort Peddie - description of life in fort during war
William Anderson, Pacaltsdorp
Reports from the following on their respective stations:-
James Kitchingman, Bethelsdorp
Henry Helm, Caledon
W Y Thomson, Philippolis
Joseph Gill, Somerset [Somerset East]
Theophilus Atkinson, Colesberg
John Munro, Cradock
Benjamin Anderson, Bethesda
Thomas Hood, Avontuur |
| Extent: |
57 items |
| Access status: |
Open |
| Language: | English Dutch |
| File number: |
Folder 1(Jkts C&D) & Fldr 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 |