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SOAS Archive
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| id |
CWM.LMS.13.02.01.006
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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/Mauritius/Incoming correspondence/Box 1
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| callnumber |
CWM/LMS/13/02/01/006
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| callnumber_txt |
CWM/LMS/13/02/01/006
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| callnumber-sort |
CWM/LMS/13/02/01/006
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| prefix_number |
006
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| title |
Mauritius,1818
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| scb_date_creation |
10 Feb - 20 Nov 1818
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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 |
11 items
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| format |
Archive
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| description |
includes letters from:
George Hodson (Assistant Secretary), London - urging Le Brun to be circumspect
John Le Brun [Jean Le Brun, Jean Lebrun, John Lebrun] (in French language), Port Louis - unsuccessful in finding space for school; enocomic problems following fire; Sunday School bearing fruit in producing young people ready to join the church and receive sacrament; could new governor, General Hall be informed there is a missionary in his island?; Mrs Jones had a daughter; Le Brun married Mlle Mabille;
Joint letter from David Jones and Thomas Bevan - their arrival in Mauritius; General Hall thinks their mission inauspicious, Madagascar unhealthy, the treaty made by Farquhar with the king of Ova [Hova] breached by continuation of slave trade, he has withdrawn his officials and the only remaining Europeans on Madagascar are pro-slave dealers
Thomas Bevan and Mary Bevan [née Mary Jones], Port Louis - as above
David Jones, Port Louis - He and Bevan intend travelling as private gentlemen with interpreter to see how things are in Madagascar and visit king Ova; Le Brun has spoken with a man who has been 20 years in Madagascar and believes interor promising; 6000 word account of visit to Tamatave [Toamasina]
Governor Hall, Port Louis - confirms Jones and Bevan's report of his views, more tactfully expressed; agrees a visit to ascertain situation desirable; Jones returns and reports good prospects; he continues measures to suppress the slave trade
Thomas Bevan, Port Louis - accountof Tamatave visit; David Jones left with wife and child; postscript by John Hampson and Samuel Trawin bound for Calcutta
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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 1, Jacket C
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| scb_finding_aids |
A detailed list of Incoming Correspondence for Mauritius, 1814-1848 (list E5), is available for consultation 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.0013.0002.0001.00006
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