| Summary: |
includes letters from:
Ebenezer Henderson, St Petersburg - copy of letter from Siberian Governor General [Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky], who called at Selenginsk; news from there; Robert Yuille's accident; translation of Acts and tracts; requests Richard Knill as missionary
John Paterson, St Petersburg - his wife's death, requests details of Mill Hill School for son
Richard Knill, St Petersburg
Peter Gordon, Kislar [Kizlyar] - visited Rahmn at Sarepta; difficulties of evangelising the Calmucks [Kalmyki]
Cornelius Rahmn, Sarepta - ways of working with nomads; chooses to work with Dorbat [Dörbet] Calmucks
Edward Stallybrass, Selenginsk - birth of son; 1819 accounts; distributing tracts in temples; one Saisang [zaisang, a junior official] baptised into Russian Orthodox Church; progress of his Mongolian-Manchurian lexicon; catechism for children; tract based on Genesis chapter 1; effect of tract on a lama
Robert Yuille, Selenginsk
William Swan, Selenginsk - festival of White Month in lama temples; Edward Stallybrass's medical work; interview with archimandrite at Kiachta; Robert Morrison's Chinese New Testament and dictionary
|
