Holland,1809

includes letters from: Bernard Ledeboer, Rotterdam - requests news of Asia be shared with Netherlands Missionary Society; help requested in England for Sophie Burgmann re going to South Africa, her departure delayed by invasion; ask John Wray does Guiana need a missionary?; acting as linking corres...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Europe.Holland/Incoming correspondence/Box 1
Date(s) of creation: 26 Mar - 23 Dec 1809
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/Europe.Holland/Incoming correspondence/Box 1
Summary: includes letters from: Bernard Ledeboer, Rotterdam - requests news of Asia be shared with Netherlands Missionary Society; help requested in England for Sophie Burgmann re going to South Africa, her departure delayed by invasion; ask John Wray does Guiana need a missionary?; acting as linking correspondent and financial agent between Edinburgh Missionary Society and their missionaries in Karass [Caucausus, area of South Ossetia]; will be responsible for brothers Albrecht, LMS for John Seidenfaden; John Supper and Gottlob Bruckner not available for South Africa J Fonteyn (secretary Netherlands Missionary Society), Rotterdam - sending Dutch books for Lambert Janz, Erasmus Smit, Mews Jans Bakker; hopes soon to send books to Dr John Vanderkemp and to Demerara summary of substance of correspondence between LMS and Netherlands Missionary Society March 1807 to November 1809 Joseph Hardcastle, London - draft letters to Bernard Ledeboer: instructions re Edinburgh Karass link; can two new candidates from Berlin go out with Sophia Burgmann? G R Overbeck, Rotterdam (in Dutch) - copy of letter from Krooman's River mentioning Jan Kok
Extent: 14 items
Access status: Open
Language: English
File number: Folder 4, Jacket A
Finding aids: A detailed list (List B1) is available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library, which covers Incoming Correspondence for Holland, 1797-1845 (much in Dutch, including correspondence with Johannes Van der Kemp before he went to South Africa).
Format: Archive