Incoming Correspondence: Malacca (Melaka)
So long as missionaries were excluded from mainland China, Dr Robert Morrison took the view that the mission to the Chinese would best make progress in a place near China frequented by numerous Chinese. Malacca was chosen for having good communications and a healthier climate than Java. Early corres...
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/Ultra Ganges. Malacca/Incoming correspondence/Box…etc
1815-1820 Box 1
1821-1829 Box 2
1830-1859 Box 3 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
1815-1859 |
| Level: |
Sub-series |
| Format: | Archive |
| URL: |
https://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00001359/00018 |
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/Ultra Ganges. Malacca/Incoming correspondence/Box…etc
1815-1820 Box 1
1821-1829 Box 2
1830-1859 Box 3 |
|---|---|
| Summary: |
So long as missionaries were excluded from mainland China, Dr Robert Morrison took the view that the mission to the Chinese would best make progress in a place near China frequented by numerous Chinese. Malacca was chosen for having good communications and a healthier climate than Java. Early correspondents from Malacca include William Milne, who arrived in 1815 and started a Chinese school, worship services and a magazine; Claudius Thomsen, who joined him in 1816 to minister to Malays; Milne baptised Leang A-fa [Leangafa, Leang A Fa, Leung A-Fa], the Chinese printer who went on to China in due course and served with Robert Morrison. Walter Medhurst joined Milne as a printer, was ordained, but soon moved on to other areas. Correspondents thereafter include George Huttman (1820-24), James Humphreys (1821-1829), David Collie (1822-1828), Samuel Kidd (1824-1832), Jacob Tomlin (1826-1832), Samuel Dyer (1835-1843), Josiah Hughes (1830-1836), John Evans (1833-1840) and H Werth (1839-1841). Humphreys, Collie, Kidd and Evans all took an active share in the work of the Anglo-Chinese College until in 1843 the opening of the Chinese ports led to the establishment in Hong Kong of an Anglo-Chinese Theological Seminary of which James Legge became principal. This brought the college and the mission at Malacca to an end. |
| Extent: |
3 boxes |
| Access status: |
Open |
| Language: | English |
| Finding aids: |
A detailed list of Incoming Correspondence for Malacca, 1815-1859, (G1), 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. |
| Copies: | Malacca Letters have been digitised. Digital copies can be seen on the SOAS Digital Library. See URL links in item-level records. |
| Format: | Archive |