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includes letters from:
Richard Knill, St Petersburg - works among young people and German colonists; story of a young Tartar woman; requests pastoral help for British in Moscow
Prince Alexander Galitzine, St Petersburg - grant of land in Siberia to LMS and finance for missionaries' houses (Russian, with translation)
John Paterson, St Petersburg - Calmuck [Kalmyk] New Testaments being printed by Russian Bible Society; British & Foreign Bible Society [BFBS] printing Manchurian but not possible to distribute them; he leaving BFBS and joining Russian Bible Society; missionaries at Sarepta banned from baptizing
Cornelius Rahmn, Sarepta - Only Russian Orthodox may baptise; working with Calmuck children; begun translating Psalms; Calmuck vocabulary; difficulties studying Tibetan; ambulatory schools
joint letter from Edward Stallybrass, William Swan and Robert Yuille, Selenginsk - why printing press wanted
Edward Stallybrass, Selenginsk - accounts; difficulties of discussion with lamas; land assigned; plans itinerating
William Swan, Selenginsk - shamanism and lamaism; plan for winter with Chorinsky Buriats [Buryats]
Robert Yuille, Selenginsk - a journey
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