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includes letters from:
Richard Knill, St Petersburg - his marriage [to Sarah Notman]; church progress; press and paper sent to Selenginsk; further gift for Selenginsk from Tsar; need of church building; first Persian [Iranian] convert at Astrachan [Astrakhan] Scottish Mission; first baptism in Crimea; Cornelius Rahmn leaving Sarepta; plea to English dissenters for money for church building; Kopeck Society started works among young people and German colonists; story of a young Tartar woman; requests pastoral help for British in Moscow
Cornelius Rahmn, Sarepta and St Petersburg - Moravian mission; baptism and the government (refers to Ukases of 1724 and 1746); impossible to remain as missionary in Sarepta
David Dickson, Edinburgh - Scottish missions in Russia not yet affected; memo to Prince Galitzin [Golytzin]; circulating Scriptures
John Paterson, Cheltenham [England] - suggesting where Rahmn might go after Sarepta
William Swan, country of Chorin [Khori] Buriats - lodging found; annual fur and cattle fair; Catholic and Greek Orthodox priests obstacles to his intended mission; new chief Taisha; postscript written from Selenginsk
Robert Yuille, Selenginsk - his way of dealing with crimes; young Buryat living/studying with him; postscript by Richard Knill, St Petersburg
Edward Stallybrass, Selenginsk - requests books on surgery; first service in Buriat language; young men being taught; Mrs Stallybrass [née Sarah Robinson] teaching children
joint letter from Edward Stallybrass and Mrs Stallybrass [née Sarah Robinson], Selenginsk - translations of Old and New Testaments; deaths of Robert Yuille's son and of her father
joint letters from Edward Stallybrass, Robert Yuille and William Swan, Selenginsk - difficulties of education work; Sunday services; Mrs Yuille [née Martha Cowie] teaching young Buriat; reply to LMS directors re vernacular schools and traning local workers
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