Batavia [Jakarta],1832

includes letters from: Walter Medhurst, Batavia [Jakarta] - Chinese concept of sin, etc; refuting arguments; Gottlob Bruckner banished from Samarang [Semarang], his tracts confiscated; failure of Resident's case against him in Batavia; mission accounts; printed return schedule; founding an orphanage...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Ultra Ganges. Batavia/Java/Incoming correspondence/Box 1
Date(s) of creation: 30 Jan - 28 Dec 1832
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: CWM/LMS/Ultra Ganges. Batavia/Java/Incoming correspondence/Box 1
Summary: includes letters from: Walter Medhurst, Batavia [Jakarta] - Chinese concept of sin, etc; refuting arguments; Gottlob Bruckner banished from Samarang [Semarang], his tracts confiscated; failure of Resident's case against him in Batavia; mission accounts; printed return schedule; founding an orphanage; asks LMS Directors to find and fund a qualified superintendent. Walter Medhurst, off Java coast (en route to Samarang and Sourabaya [Surabaya] - doubts about the Ultra Ganges Mission; formation of English Church; efforts to counter immorality in European expatriates; Christian publications produced on the lithographic press; Rev Charles Wimberley of Bengal taking services at Batavia for period of tour. William Young, Batavia - his view of a missionary's work jointly from Walter Medhurst and William Young, Batavia - report, with Constitution of Batavia English Church List of populations of Batavia list of books in mission library
Extent: 6 items
Access status: Open
Language: English
File number: Folder 3, Jacket C
Finding aids: A detailed list of Incoming Correspondence covering letters from Batavia 1814-1843 (list G1), is available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library.
Format: Archive