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includes letters from:
Alphonse Lacroix (secretary), Calcutta [Kolkata] - district committee minutes; payment by English supporters for Indian Readers etc; finance report 1838
Thomas Boaz, Calcutta - review of work & future plans; census of Calcutta population; Indian catechists; shipping of 'coolies' [term from original source, indentured/contract labourers] to Demerara [Guyana] and their shameful treatment; Union Chapel
John Campbell, Calcutta - superintendence of Bhowanipore school: The Christian Institution
Charles Piffard (acting secretary), Calcutta - district committee minutes
Micaiah Hill, Berhampore [Baharampur]
James Paterson, Berhampore - formation of church with 8 members
George Mundy, Chinsurah - review of past year; reference to John Williams (South Seas); Indians being shipped away to West Indies [Caribbean]; Governor-General [George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland]'s bad influence in religious matters; preached against millenarianism
Thomas Lessel, Calcutta
William Morton, Calcutta - condition of Indian church
Rudolphe de Rodt received as co-worker; applies to become LMS missionary
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