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includes letters from:
joint letter of William Ropes, F Gellibrand, Archibald Merrielees and Richard Knill, St Petersburg
joint letters of William Swan and Richard Knill, St Petersburg - enclosing letter from James Glen (Scotch Colony, Karass);
America's plentiful offer of funds for Siberian mission
William Swan, St Petersburg - working all hours at transcription; funds for printing Scriptures in Mongolian; manuscripts of Genesis and Exodus received; enclosed article on and portait of Mrs Stallybrass [née Sarah Robinson]; British and Foreign Bible Society will pay for his year in St Petersburg; reply to N Bludof to charges against mission, with charge from Bludof enclosed
Richard Knill, St Petersburg - permission from Tsar to build chapel;
Church Meeting, St Petersburg - resolution releasing Richard Knill for limited period to act as LMS special agent in Britain
Edward Stallybrass, Khodon (to Cornelius Rahmn) - death of Mrs Stallybrass [née Sarah Robinson]; need of special famine allowance and regular allowance for school pupils' food; Pentateuch [first 5 books of Bible] in censors' hands
Robert Yuille, Selenginsk (to William Swan) - Mrs Stallybrass's death; accusation by late archbishop of Irkutsk that he taught Orthodoxy same as paganism; views on education; Buryat economy, need of stimulus to learning; report
Royal Asiatic Society, London - porter's receipt for Robert Yuille's manuscript
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