Central China,1855
includes letters from:- Walter Medhurst, Shanghai - conversions and baptisms; rebels holding city, inhabitants besieged; responds to LMS decision not to send more missionaries in time of anarchy; visit to Foochow [Fuzhou]; escape from shipwreck; printing of Bible completed; treaty with Chinese gover...
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/Central China/Incoming correspondence/Box 2 |
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| Date(s) of creation: |
31 Jan - 19 Dec 1855 |
| Level: |
File |
| Format: | Archive |
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/Central China/Incoming correspondence/Box 2 |
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| Summary: |
includes letters from:-
Walter Medhurst, Shanghai - conversions and baptisms; rebels holding city, inhabitants besieged; responds to LMS decision not to send more missionaries in time of anarchy; visit to Foochow [Fuzhou]; escape from shipwreck; printing of Bible completed; treaty with Chinese government; opium trade
William Muirhead, Shanghai - conditions in captured city
Walter Medhurst, junior (Her Britannic Majesty's Consul) Shanghai - asks LMS to urge his father to go to Britain
Joseph Edkins, Shanghai - some country journeys
joint letter by Alexander Williamson and Griffith John, Shanghai
Mary Ann Aldersey, Ningpo [Ningbo] - report of school, describing some students |
| Extent: |
9 items |
| Access status: |
Open |
| Language: | English |
| File number: |
Folder 1, Jacket A |
| Finding aids: |
A detailed list of Incoming Correspondence for Central China, 1843-1866 (list G5), is available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library. |
| Format: | Archive |