Southern Africa Incoming & Outgoing Correspondence

Incoming correspondence from missionaries in Southern Africa to the London Missionary Society headquarters, 1928-1950. These files also contain copies of some of the letters sent out by the LMS, which effectively makes the correspondence from 1928 into an Incoming & Outgoing correspondence serie...

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Archive & Special Collections CWM/LMS/05/03 Open

Date(s) of creation: 1928-1950
Level: Series
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.05.03
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber CWM/LMS/05/03
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/05/03
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/05/03
prefix_number 03
title Southern Africa Incoming & Outgoing Correspondence
scb_date_creation 1928-1950
scb_level Series
level_sort 4/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/
scb_extent 22 boxes
format Archive
description Incoming correspondence from missionaries in Southern Africa to the London Missionary Society headquarters, 1928-1950. These files also contain copies of some of the letters sent out by the LMS, which effectively makes the correspondence from 1928 into an Incoming & Outgoing correspondence series. However, the files comprise primarily incoming letters from missionaries.
scb_arrangement From 1928 onwards Incoming correspondence from the field is no longer stored in chronological order, but in alphabetical order by sender. This means that the letters from a particular missionary are filed together. There may be more than one file per missionary however, as files are either yearly, or only span a limited number of years. Additional boxes of Southern Africa correspondence are found in the 1941-1950 accrual of papers (requisition: CWM/LMS/1941-1950/Boxes AF 6-14). After 1950, correspondence for Southern Africa is found in the Africa division.
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_finding_aids A detailed list for Southern Africa Incoming & Outgoing correspondence, 1928-1939, is available in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library. There is an additional list of 'Zimbabwe Papers, 1900-1940' by JC Kufa, which lists South Africa Incoming letters, 1900-1940, where they relate to Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0005.0003

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