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includes letters from:
William Swan, St Petersburg and Tobolsk - 2 Buriat [Buryat] Saisangs [Zaisangs] translating gospel in St Petersburg; requests another missionary; Edward Stallybrass at Selenginsk and Cornelius Rahmn at Sarepta, he plans journey to Irkutsk; extracts from journal of Moravian missionaries; leaving St Petersburg, Missionary Association formed there
John Paterson, St Petersburg - thanks from Herrnhut [Moravian headquarters] for LMS contribution to Calmuck [Kalmyk] mission; Cornelius Rahmn plans to leave Irkutsk, suggests transfer to Sarepta; Edward Stallybrass's letter to Prince Galitzin [Golytsin] shown to Tsar; request for hymn books; government approve Cornelius Rahmn being with Calmucks
George Burder, London - copy of letter which accompanied gift of David Bogue's sermons to Prince Galitzin
Robert Yuille, St Petersburg - first Sunday collection for LMS in St Petersburg
Cornelius Rahmn, Sarepta [in modern Volgograd] - learning Calmuck language [Kalmyk]; may he settle at Astrachan [Astrakhan]; postcript from Ebenezer Henderson, St Petersburg on mission opportunities at Astrachan
Edward Stallybrass, Irkutsk and Selenginsk - extracts from Captain Peter Gordon's letter; methods of tract and gospel distribution; illness of Mrs Rahmm; creating dictionary; sheets of gospel in Mongolian arriving; postscript by William Swan; tracts arrrived from St Petersburg; first horseback expedition into district; contribution from Stepney church, London; postscript by William Swan comments on Stallybrass's plan to move into country; reasons for Buriats' dispersed residence; conversations with lamas [Tibetan religious leaders]; a Buryat wedding; house being built; visit from Captain Peter Gordon; some medical work; change of Siberian Governor General [to Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky]
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