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includes letters from:
Charles Mault and James Russell, Nagercoil - report for 1840
Dr Archibald Ramsay, Nagercoil - resigns
Martha Mault, Nagercoil - development of work among girls
James Russell, Nagercoil - missionaries inadequate because so few; suffers overwork; house burgled, mission money stolen;
Charles Mault, Nagercoil - death of Charles Miller, successor wanted
James Pattison, Nagercoil - on taking over seminary; suggests station between Quilon and Trivandrum [or Thiruvananthapuram]
Charles Mead and John Abbs, Neyoor - dissent among missionaries, 'dismissal' of Archibald Ramsay
John Abbs, Nagercoil - on slavery in Travancore; case of Archibald Ramsay; injustice, oppression and fraud in Travancore; observations on mission work in India; marriage customes; British officers attending Hindu festival; high caste convert
Charles Mead, Neyoor - to Archibald Ramsay, with reply from him; 1841 report
John Cox and James Thompson, Quilon - Report for 1840, copies of correspondence with Archibald Ramsay; copies of correspondence and minutes of District Committee; decision of British Resident against Rev F M Briggs holding services in Trivandrum [Thiruvananthapuram] as chaplain
James Thompson, Quilon - missionary wanted for Malayalim country; his idea of the kind of woman to be a missionary's wife; report for 1841; James Russell to take charge of seminary.
John Cox, Trivandrum - birth of 3rd daughter; report, statistics; statement re: girls school
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