South India (Travancore),1819

includes letters from: Colonel John Munro (outgoing British resident), Quilon - to Richard Knill Richard Knill, Colombo, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka] and Madras [later Chennai] - he and Charles Mead had been ill; Travancore promising field but he obliged to return to England on health grounds; report on...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/South India.Travancore/Incoming correspondence/Box 1
Date(s) of creation: 11 Jan - 12 Nov 1819
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.10.02.05.003
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.Travancore/Incoming correspondence/Box 1
callnumber CWM/LMS/10/02/05/003
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/10/02/05/003
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/10/02/05/003
prefix_number 003
title South India (Travancore),1819
scb_date_creation 11 Jan - 12 Nov 1819
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 4 items
format Archive
description includes letters from: Colonel John Munro (outgoing British resident), Quilon - to Richard Knill Richard Knill, Colombo, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka] and Madras [later Chennai] - he and Charles Mead had been ill; Travancore promising field but he obliged to return to England on health grounds; report on missionaries' work in Madras Charles Mault, Bombay [later Mumbai] and Cochin - arrival, outbreak of cholera, how Christians bore the strain; caste difficulties; new church at Agatesuram; central school to be established at Nagercoil; statement of expenditure of Rajah's gift. Charles Mead, Nagercoil - applying for government permission to set up printing press; arrival of Thomas Nicholson
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_file_number Folder 1, Jacket B
scb_finding_aids A detailed list of Incoming Correspondence for Travancore & Ceylon, 1817-1899 (list F6), is available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library.
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0010.0002.0005.00003