Incoming Correspondence: Singapore

The LMS mission in Singapore was chiefly initiated as part of the effort to evangelise China. Until China proper was opened to protestant missionaries in the early 1840s those intended to evangelise the Chinese learnt Chinese language(s) and served in Singapore, some ports in the archipelago which w...

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Archive & Special Collections CWM/LMS/14/02/03 Open

Order number: CWM/LMS/Ultra Ganges. Singapore/Incoming correspondence/Box…etc Box 1: 1817-1834 Box 2: 1835-1887, odds:
Date(s) of creation: 1817-1887
Level: Sub-Series
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.14.02.03
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/Ultra Ganges. Singapore/Incoming correspondence/Box…etc Box 1: 1817-1834 Box 2: 1835-1887, odds:
callnumber CWM/LMS/14/02/03
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/14/02/03
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/14/02/03
prefix_number 03
title Incoming Correspondence: Singapore
scb_date_creation 1817-1887
scb_level Sub-Series
level_sort 5/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/
scb_extent 2 boxes
format Archive
description The LMS mission in Singapore was chiefly initiated as part of the effort to evangelise China. Until China proper was opened to protestant missionaries in the early 1840s those intended to evangelise the Chinese learnt Chinese language(s) and served in Singapore, some ports in the archipelago which was to become Indonesia and Canton. The mission was closed in 1845 but Benjamin Peach Keasberry (educated in America) stayed on in the LMS premises and continued his mission to Malays independently, eventually handing it on to William Young. Later correspondence files show the slow progress of negotiations by which the old Malay mission chapel was passed on to the Presbyterian Church of England mission.
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_finding_aids For Singapore, there are hand written lists of correspondence for each year up to 1844, which have been placed in the front of the folder to which they relate. There is also a small book in Box 1 which logs each item by sender, place and date (but no summary of contents) up to 1866. Summaries of contents on attached LMS sheets start in 1867.
scb_copies Singapore Letters have been digitised. Digital copies can be seen on the SOAS Digital Library. See URL links in item-level records.
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0014.0002.0003

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