Russia,1818

includes letters from: Edward Stallybrass, Moscow, Cazan [Kazan], Ekatereinburg [Yekaterinburg] and Irkutsk - describes journey to Moscow and interview with Tsar, Moscow to Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Tobolsk, Tomsk and Irkutsk; copy of letter to Thomas Robinson in Moscow; descript...

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Archive & Special Collections CWM/LMS/07/02/07/004 Open

Order number: CWM/LMS/Russia/Incoming correspondence/Box 1
Date(s) of creation: 3 Jan 1818 - 13 Dec 1818
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
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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/Russia/Incoming correspondence/Box 1
callnumber CWM/LMS/07/02/07/004
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/07/02/07/004
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/07/02/07/004
prefix_number 004
title Russia,1818
scb_date_creation 3 Jan 1818 - 13 Dec 1818
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 17 items
format Archive
description includes letters from: Edward Stallybrass, Moscow, Cazan [Kazan], Ekatereinburg [Yekaterinburg] and Irkutsk - describes journey to Moscow and interview with Tsar, Moscow to Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Tobolsk, Tomsk and Irkutsk; copy of letter to Thomas Robinson in Moscow; description of Kazan; describes peasants; finds learning Mongolian difficult but has translated 11 chapters of Genesis; Chinese testaments and tracts received from Malacca [Melaka] per Captain Peter Gordon but distribution difficult; plan to build house at Selenginsk joint letter from Edward Stallybrass and Cornelius Rahmn, Irkutsk - births and a death; circumstances point to making station East of lake Baikal; reasons for choice of Selenginsk Peter Gordon, Ochotsk [Okhotsk] - his visit to William Milne in Malacca; voyage to Japan distributing Milne's Chinese testaments on the way; pleads for boat and for itinerant missionaries John Paterson, St Petersburg and Stockholm - repeats request for a minister, possibly LMS missionary; Swan studying Mongolian; Mongolian tracts and gospels printed; work of two Buriat [Buryat] Saisangs William Swan, St Petersburg - enclosed certificate, in Latin, of his ordination at Greenwich; his acquaintance with Robert Yuille translation of lettter from Moravian missonaries to Calmucks, the Horde - mentions influence of two Burial Saisangs
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_file_number Folder 2, Jackets C and D
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 Russia, 1804-1848.
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0007.0002.0007.00004

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