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...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/Central China/Incoming correspondence/Box 2
Date(s) of creation: 31 Jan - 19 Dec 1855
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.17.02.014
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/Central China/Incoming correspondence/Box 2
callnumber CWM/LMS/17/02/014
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/17/02/014
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/17/02/014
prefix_number 014
title Central China,1855
scb_date_creation 31 Jan - 19 Dec 1855
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 9 items
format Archive
description 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
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_file_number Folder 1, Jacket A
scb_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.
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0017.0002.00014