| collection |
SOAS Archive
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| id |
CWM.LMS.11.02.03.046
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| recordtype |
archive
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| scb_item_location |
Archive & Special Collections
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| item_location |
Archive & Special Collections
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| scb_loan_type |
Reference only
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| scb_order_with |
CWM/LMS/North India.United Provinces/Incoming correspondence/Box 5
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| callnumber |
CWM/LMS/11/02/03/046
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| callnumber_txt |
CWM/LMS/11/02/03/046
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| callnumber-sort |
CWM/LMS/11/02/03/046
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| prefix_number |
046
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| title |
North India (United Provinces),1865
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| scb_date_creation |
7 Jan - 21 Dec 1865
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| scb_level |
File
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| level_sort |
7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
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| scb_extent |
26 items
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| format |
Archive
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| description |
includes letters from:
William Blake, Benares - English services and work among British troops; opposed to adopting state-aided school, requests more help for Central School;
Matthew Sherring, Benares [Varanasi] amd Mirzapur - ordination of a second catechist; preaching tour through 100 villages; 3 adult baptisms; death of William Buyers, his work and character; sailing for USA
committee votes on expenditures;
William Jones, Almora and Dudhi [Dhundi] - accepts post at Singrowli; death of wife and child; former reports of success were exaggerated; opposition to forced labour; layout at Dudhi
Robert Mather (secretary), Mirzapur - district committee minutes; need for missioary colleague; report of Books Commission sent to government; governor-general [Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence (1864–1869) governor general and viceroy]'s reply re managing common burial grounds; revision work; needless waste of time and money sending missionaries via Cape instead of overland; enclosed letter from daughter Miss E A Mather offering to serve the mission there.
James Kennedy, on board the Newcastle bound for Calcutta
John Hewlett, Almora - report of year's work; opening of new leper asylum chapel; further baptisms of lepers; discouragements of this work; school examination
George Shrewsbury, Almora - his move from Berhampore [Baharampur]; English service in mission chapel abandoned, difficulties over use of prayer book; apppointment of 2nd missionary at Almora not needed, convalescent missionaries can cover.
John Budden, Kensington, London - returning to India
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| scb_access_status |
Open
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| language |
English
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| language_search |
English
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| scb_file_number |
Folder 4
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| scb_finding_aids |
A detailed list of Incoming Correspondence for Bengal, 1820-1865 (list F7), is available for consultation upon request in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library.
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| hierarchy_top_id_raw |
CWM
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| hierarchy_sequence |
CWM.00LMS.0011.0002.0003.00046
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