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...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Africa/South Africa/Incoming correspondence/Box 22
Date(s) of creation: 16 Jan - 3 Dec 1846
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.05.02.02.066
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/Africa/South Africa/Incoming correspondence/Box 22
callnumber CWM/LMS/05/02/02/066
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/05/02/02/066
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/05/02/02/066
prefix_number 066
title South Africa,1846
scb_date_creation 16 Jan - 3 Dec 1846
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 57 items
format Archive
description 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
scb_access_status Open
language English
Dutch
language_search English
Dutch
scb_file_number Folder 1(Jkts C&D) & Fldr 2
scb_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.
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0005.0002.0002.00066