North India Incoming Correspondence: Bengal
Incoming correspondence from missionaries in Bengal to the London Missionary Society headquarters. The Bengal mission centred on Calcutta [Kolkata], which (not unlike Madras) also figured as a port through which missionaries sometimes passed en route to other fields and addressed letters from there...
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/North India/Bengal/Incoming correspondence/Box…etc
1800-1818 Box 1A*
1819-1823 Box 1B*
1824-1829 Box 2*
1830-1833 Box 3*
1834-1836 Box 4*
1837-1838 Box 5*
1839-1840 Box 6
1841-1843 Box 7A
1844-1845 Box 7B
1846-1851 Box 8
1852-1857 Box 9
1858-1862 Box 10
1863-1869 Box 11
1870-1876 Box 12
1877-1880 Box 13
1881-1885 Box 14
1886-1888 Box 15
1889-1892 Box 16
1893-1895 Box 17
1896-1898 Box 18
1899-1900 Box 19
1901-1903 Box 20
1904-1906 Box 21
1907-1909 Box 22
1910-1913 Box 23
1914-1915 Box 24
1916-1918 Box 25
1919-1920 Box 26
1921-1922 Box 27
1923-1924 Box 28
1925-1926 Box 29
1927 Box 30 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
1800-1927 |
| Level: |
Sub-series |
| Format: | Archive |
| URL: |
https://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00001359/00031 |
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/North India/Bengal/Incoming correspondence/Box…etc
1800-1818 Box 1A*
1819-1823 Box 1B*
1824-1829 Box 2*
1830-1833 Box 3*
1834-1836 Box 4*
1837-1838 Box 5*
1839-1840 Box 6
1841-1843 Box 7A
1844-1845 Box 7B
1846-1851 Box 8
1852-1857 Box 9
1858-1862 Box 10
1863-1869 Box 11
1870-1876 Box 12
1877-1880 Box 13
1881-1885 Box 14
1886-1888 Box 15
1889-1892 Box 16
1893-1895 Box 17
1896-1898 Box 18
1899-1900 Box 19
1901-1903 Box 20
1904-1906 Box 21
1907-1909 Box 22
1910-1913 Box 23
1914-1915 Box 24
1916-1918 Box 25
1919-1920 Box 26
1921-1922 Box 27
1923-1924 Box 28
1925-1926 Box 29
1927 Box 30 |
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| Summary: |
Incoming correspondence from missionaries in Bengal to the London Missionary Society headquarters. The Bengal mission centred on Calcutta [Kolkata], which (not unlike Madras) also figured as a port through which missionaries sometimes passed en route to other fields and addressed letters from there which are unrelated to the Bengal mission. An early outpost of the mission was Chinsurah; then Kidderpore, Berampore [Berhampur, Baharampur] and Bhowanipore (a South Calcutta suburb close to Ballygunge which was also an area of some LMS activity). Principal early correspondents were Henry Townley, George Gogerley and Alphonse Francois Lacroix (Calcutta), Micaiah Hill (Berhampore), George Mundy (Chinsurah), and John Campbell (Kidderpore). Bhowanipore was the site of an important education institution and Berampore subsequently of a hospital. Early correspondence makes frequent reference to the Union Chapel, Calcutta (founded earlier in the century and topic of some dispute between missionaries and congregation in 1834), which became an influential place of worship where English was used. |
| Extent: |
32 boxes |
| Access status: |
Open |
| Language: | English |
| Finding aids: |
A detailed list of Incoming Correspondence for Bengal 1800-1838 (F1), is available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library. A digitised copy of this list is available on SOAS Digital Collections - URL link in this catalogue record. |
| Format: | Archive |