South Africa,1850
includes letters from: Isaac Hughes, Backhouse [Douglas, Vaal River] Robert Moffat (junior), Bloemfontein and Vaal River - with sketch map showing proposed watercourse on Vaal River at Backhouse C N Stuart, Bloemfontein Robert Taylor, Cradock William Elliott, Cape Town W Y Thomson, Graham's Town [Gr...
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CWM/LMS/Africa/South Africa/Incoming correspondence/Box 25 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
1 Jan - 31 Dec 1850 |
| Level: |
File |
| Format: | Archive |
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/Africa/South Africa/Incoming correspondence/Box 25 |
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| Summary: |
includes letters from:
Isaac Hughes, Backhouse [Douglas, Vaal River]
Robert Moffat (junior), Bloemfontein and Vaal River - with sketch map showing proposed watercourse on Vaal River at Backhouse
C N Stuart, Bloemfontein
Robert Taylor, Cradock
William Elliott, Cape Town
W Y Thomson, Graham's Town [Grahamstown]
Emily Locke [née Loxton], Grahamstown
John Philip, Cape Town - suggestion that missionaries help Africans agree fixed boundaries
S N de Kock, Colesberg
Cornelis Kok, Campbell
John Wright, Philippolis
James Green, Balfour [Kat River]
Bartholomew Anderson, Dysselsdorp
James Read, Philipton, Stockenstrom District and Fort Cox [Middledrift, Eastern Cape] - memorial to Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith [Sir Harry Smith, Cape governor]
Dr Charles Orpen, Colesberg
Frederick Appleyard, King William's Town
Frederick Gottlob Kayser, Knapps Hope - encouraging instances of some converts; irrigation allowed land to be tilled
Frederick G G Kayser, Knapps Hope
Joseph Gill, Fort Beaufort - Birklands and Ungili now under his care; rumour of rising
Miss S Sass, Theopolis
John Brownlee, Williams Town [King William's Town]
F W Smith, Fort Beaufort (to Richard Birt)
James Allison, Indaleni [Wesleyan mssionary]
Thomas Paterson, Uitenhage
Van Soelen, Bloemfontein and Graaff-Reinet
William Thompson, Plymouth Sound and Cape Town - list of correspondence forwarded to London; his new position and powers; visits and impressions
Richard Birt, Peelton
H C Rutherford, Cape Town - with enclosed notice Cape governor re Orange River Sovereignty
Margery Wright, Boom Plats [Boomplats]
Nicholas Smit, Graham's Town [Grahamstown]
Theophilus Atkinson, Pacaltsdorp
John Melvill, George Town [George, Western Cape] - mentions a baptized, enslaved woman
Thomas Hood, Avontuur, Long Kloof
Joseph Kitchingman, Bethelsdorp
George Barker, Paarl
Catharine Anderson, Pacaltsdorp
James Read (junior), Philipton
Reinhold Gregorowski, Somerset [Somerset East] (in Dutch)
Charles Lennox Stretch (diplomatic agent), Glen Avon [Somerset East] - memorandum for Joseph Freeman commenting on correspondence (press cutting of letter published in Grahams Town Journal 27 April 1850 enclosed)
George Christie, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town
Thomas Philip, Hankey - ordination of James Kitchingman
F Tudhope, Graham's Town [Grahamstown]
A van Rooyen, Tidmonton [Tidmanton (near Fort Beaufort), Fort Beaufort]
James Campbell, Graaff-Reinet
William Passmore, Port Elizabeth
William Anderson, Pacaltsdorp
joint letter by Edward Solomon and Isaac Hughes, Backhouse [Douglas] [Vaal River]
Thomas Merrington
return of schools expenditure
Martinus Caspar (to M Vogelgezang), Cape Town
Daniel Helm, Zuurbraak - enclosing cutting from Grahams Town Journal
Adam Robson, Port Elizabeth
Henry Calderwood, Alice
Mrs Vanlingen, Graaff-Reinet
John Montagu, governor's secretary - response to protest against resident magistrate in Stockenstrom district
W C Holden, Port Natal [later Durban]; re lands at Zoorbraak [Zuurbraak]
C C de Villiers, Paarl
copies of correspondence of James Read (senior) and James Read (junior), Philipton with Mr Bowker re Fingos
William Kelly, Hankey
William Shaw [Wesleyan mssionary], Graham's Town [Grahamstown] - denying he is 'Philanthropist' author of the newspaper letter criticising Joseph Freeman
copy of letter from Andries Botha, Buxton, to Sir Harry Smith [Cape governor]
circular announcing William Thompson's appointment as LMS agent for South Africa
Rylands Stapleton, Cape Town - extracts from Union Chapel minutes on the closure of John Philip's ministry
M Vogelgezang, Cape Town - short autobiography of his ministerial career; not permitted to remain in orphan house
C J Vanderschalk, Philippolis - his ordination
? R Nock, Uniondale (copy of letter to Charles Lennox Stretch on dangers of strife over the colonial border)
Reports from the following on their respective stations included in correspondence September-December 1850:-
Thomas Hood, Avontuur, Long Kloof
Nicholas Smit, Graham's Town [Grahamstown] - report of Theopolis
expenditure estimates for LMS Africa missions 1849-50
Reinhold Gregorowski, Somerset [Somerset East] (in Dutch)
Robert Taylor, Cradock
Nicholas Smit, Graham's Town
John Brownlee, Williams Town [King William's Town]
Thomas Paterson, Uitenhage
James Kitchingman, Bethelsdorp
Richard Birt, Peelton |
| Extent: |
176 items |
| Access status: |
Open |
| Language: | English Dutch |
| File number: |
Folders 2,3,4 and 5 |
| 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 |