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includes letters from:
Mrs Porter [née Anne Bowmar], Madras [Chennai] - girls school report; printed reports for 1850 and 1851; some girls
Frederick Baylis, Madras - studying Tamil language; boys school started at Black Town [later George Town]; school for caste girls opened by Mrs Baylis [née Eliza Ann White] at Vepery.
William Drew (secretary, Madras Eastern Committee), Madras - minutes etc; abandoment of Combaconum [Kumbakonam] as a mission station, compensation for workers dismissed, copies of letters from John Nimmo and others
joint printed appeal for Black Town school by William Drew, William Porter and Frederick Baylis
William Porter, Madras - Charles Mead's marriage to an Indian
William Addis, Coimbatore and Coonoor - Caste and Catholics; enclosed report by Mrs Addis [née Susanna Emelia Van Someren] on girls school
Charles Addis, Coimbatore - translation work; visit by bishop of Madras [Thomas Dealtry]; controversy over Catholic objection to Tamil translations of Scripture
Mrs Addis [née Susanna Emelia Van Someren] - needs of girls school; regrets discontinued support for one girl
Mrs Lechler [née Rosa Anne Woodman], Salem - enclosed reports; Bible and Tract Depository; teachers
John Lechler, Salem - industry school starts, 5 boys baptised; his refusal to baptise one child; Indian teachers
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