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...

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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
Date(s) of creation: 1800-1927
Level: Sub-Series
Format: Archive           
URL: https://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00001359/00031

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item_location Archive & Special Collections
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scb_order_with 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
callnumber CWM/LMS/11/02/01
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/11/02/01
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/11/02/01
prefix_number 01
title North India Incoming Correspondence: Bengal
scb_date_creation 1800-1927
scb_level Sub-Series
level_sort 5/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/
scb_extent 32 boxes
format Archive
description 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.
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_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.
scb_url https://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00001359/00031
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0011.0002.0001

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