Amboyna [Ambon],1818
includes letters by: Joseph Kam, Amboina - permission from Dutch governor Kock for seminary; hopes for 5000 NewTestaments from British & Foreign Bible Society; on travels has discovered 35-40,000 Christian islanders; tabulates Christian population in Moluccan [Maluku] islands and number of non-C...
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CWM/LMS/Ultra Ganges. Amboyna-Rangoon/Incoming correspondence/Box 1 |
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6 Mar - 12 May 1818 |
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SOAS Archive |
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CWM.LMS.14.02.04.005 |
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Archive & Special Collections |
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Archive & Special Collections |
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Reference only |
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CWM/LMS/Ultra Ganges. Amboyna-Rangoon/Incoming correspondence/Box 1 |
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CWM/LMS/14/02/04/005 |
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CWM/LMS/14/02/04/005 |
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CWM/LMS/14/02/04/005 |
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005 |
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Amboyna [Ambon],1818 |
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6 Mar - 12 May 1818 |
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7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File |
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4 items |
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Archive |
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includes letters by:
Joseph Kam, Amboina - permission from Dutch governor Kock for seminary; hopes for 5000 NewTestaments from British & Foreign Bible Society; on travels has discovered 35-40,000 Christian islanders; tabulates Christian population in Moluccan [Maluku] islands and number of non-Christians; report on visit to nearby islands; sympathy on death of son of David Langton (LMS secretary); copies of writings of local schoolboys; need for printing press; over 6,000 baptised during his 1817 tour of islands.
George Livett, London - report on the religion and state of the peoples of the Moluccan islands with his assessment of missionary opportunities there. |
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Open |
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English |
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English |
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Folder 3,Jacket A |
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Hand-written lists of Incoming Correspondence for each year up to 1824 are contained in the Box |
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CWM |
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CWM.00LMS.0014.0002.0004.00005 |