Incoming Correspondence: France
Incoming correspondence to the London Missionary Society Headquarters from missionaries in France. The first letter in the French sub-series is Louis Cadoret’s offer to become an evangelist for the LMS. The LMS financed a small number of evangelists and stationed Mark Wilks, son of one of the found...
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/Europe/Incoming correspondence/Box 3 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
1801-1849 |
| Level: |
Sub-Series |
| Format: | Archive |
| URL: |
https://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00001359/00045 |
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/Europe/Incoming correspondence/Box 3 |
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| Summary: |
Incoming correspondence to the London Missionary Society Headquarters from missionaries in France.
The first letter in the French sub-series is Louis Cadoret’s offer to become an evangelist for the LMS. The LMS financed a small number of evangelists and stationed Mark Wilks, son of one of the founder Directors, in Paris where he monitored the situation. The evangelists were settled in regular protestant church ministries, firmer contact was made with the Reformed churches of France and LMS financial grants continued to the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society [Société des Missions Evangélique de Paris (SMEP)] (founded 1822). H Grandpierre, director, and Thomas Waddington, treasurer of SMEP were regular correspondents. The first missionaries sent abroad by SMEP served in South Africa under the supervision of the LMS’s senior missionary, John Philip. Correspondence continued on matters of current interest and particularly concerned work in South Africa and in those areas with French political involvement (Mauritius, Madagascar and the Society Islands). |
| Extent: |
1 box |
| Access status: |
Open |
| Language: | English French |
| Finding aids: |
A detailed list (List B1) is available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library, which covers Incoming Correspondence for France, 1801-1849. A digitised copy of this list is available on SOAS Digital Collections - see URL link in this catalogue record. |
| Format: | Archive |