South India (Tamil),1851

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...

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Archive & Special Collections CWM/LMS/10/02/04/035 Open

Order number: CWM/LMS/South India.Tamil/Incoming correspondence/Box 10
Date(s) of creation: 6 Jan - 26 Dec 1851
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.10.02.04.035
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/South India.Tamil/Incoming correspondence/Box 10
callnumber CWM/LMS/10/02/04/035
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/10/02/04/035
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/10/02/04/035
prefix_number 035
title South India (Tamil),1851
scb_date_creation 6 Jan - 26 Dec 1851
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 40 items
format Archive
description 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
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_file_number Folder 5
scb_finding_aids A detailed list of Incoming Correspondence for the Tamil area, 1817-1860 (list F4), is available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library.
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0010.0002.0004.00035

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