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...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Europe/Incoming correspondence/Box 3
Date(s) of creation: 1801-1849
Level: Sub-Series
Format: Archive           
URL: https://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00001359/00045

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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/Europe/Incoming correspondence/Box 3
callnumber CWM/LMS/07/02/05
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/07/02/05
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/07/02/05
prefix_number 05
title Incoming Correspondence: France
scb_date_creation 1801-1849
scb_level Sub-Series
level_sort 5/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/
scb_extent 1 box
format Archive
description 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).
scb_access_status Open
language English
French
language_search English
French
scb_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.
scb_url https://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00001359/00045
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hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0007.0002.0005