South Africa,1852

includes letters from: Reinhold Gregorowski, Somerset [Somerset East] James Read, Alice, Kat River and Eland's Post (near Kat River) James Read (junior), Alice and Cape Town - death of his father, James Read; Obituary William Thompson, Cape Town - report, finance; David Livingstone arrived; death of...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Africa/South Africa/Incoming correspondence/Box 27
Date(s) of creation: 8 Jan - 23 Dec 1852
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/Africa/South Africa/Incoming correspondence/Box 27
Summary: includes letters from: Reinhold Gregorowski, Somerset [Somerset East] James Read, Alice, Kat River and Eland's Post (near Kat River) James Read (junior), Alice and Cape Town - death of his father, James Read; Obituary William Thompson, Cape Town - report, finance; David Livingstone arrived; death of John Melvill; circular to missionaries and their replies John Brownlee, Williams Town [King William's Town] - people at King William's Town saving to restart Peelton Thomas Merrington, Bethelsdorp Joseph Gill, Fort Beaufort - correspondence with others and Cape government re return of Africans to former mission stations John Paterson (secretary to new church committe, Port Elizabeth Richard Birt, Cape Town and King William's Town Adam Robson, Port Elizabeth George Christie, Hankey - information from David Livingston [David Livingstone] and Robert Moffat re boer attack on Sechele Thomas Philip, Hankey Dr Charles Orpen, Colesberg death of Mrs De Kok William Elliott, George Town C J Vanderschalk, Colesberg George Barker, Paarl W Y Thomson, Graham's Town Nicholas Smit, Graham's Town [Grahamstown] Robert Taylor, Cradock G Cromar (secretary, relief committee), Cape Town Theophilus Atkinson, Pacaltsdorp - Dutch hymn book printed S N de Kock, Colesberg J C Silberbaur, Cape Town Bartholomew Anderson, Dysselsdorp - death of his father, William Anderson Reports from the following on their respective stations:- Theophilus Atkinson, Pacaltsdorp Thomas Hood, Avontuur, Long Kloof Reinhold Gregorowski, Somerset [Somerset East] William Elliott, George Town Arie Vos, Tulbagh Adam Robson, Port Elizabeth James Clark, Kruesfontein [Kruisfontein] Edward Solomon, Philippolis Daniel Helm, Caledon [Zuurbraak]
Extent: 77 items
Access status: Open
Language: English
Dutch
File number: Folders 2, 3 and 4
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