North China,1866

includes letters from:- Jonathan Lees, Tientsin [Tianjin] - minutes of Peking [Beijing] and Tientsin local committee, with building details and ground plan; comments advising against out-stations; converts and Sunday observance; separating baptism from church membership as understood by Congregation...

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Order number: CWM/LMS/North China/Incoming correspondence/Box 1
Date(s) of creation: 4 Jan - 29 Dec 1866
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.18.02.007
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/North China/Incoming correspondence/Box 1
callnumber CWM/LMS/18/02/007
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/18/02/007
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/18/02/007
prefix_number 007
title North China,1866
scb_date_creation 4 Jan - 29 Dec 1866
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 22 items
format Archive
description includes letters from:- Jonathan Lees, Tientsin [Tianjin] - minutes of Peking [Beijing] and Tientsin local committee, with building details and ground plan; comments advising against out-stations; converts and Sunday observance; separating baptism from church membership as understood by Congregationalists; accounts sent; specifies requirements for doctors wanted; tour with Alexander Williamson Robert Thomas, Peking - work among Koreans in Peking; preaching station started in Chinese City; massacre of Catholic missionaries in Korea; going there on American ship Joseph Edkins, Peking [Beijing] - converts; death of daughter; sent photographic negtives; wishes self-supporting girls'day-school; encouraging progress; proposed visit to Mongolian city, Kwei hwa Cheng; death of Robert Thomas; remarkable religious movement in two villages 120 miles South in Shantung [Shandong], went and baptised 15 Dr John Dudgeon, Peking - effect of hospital, government appreciative; death of Robert Thomas (LMS obliged to give it up), with report;found temple to be converted into chapel and hospital, enclosed sketch location plan of city centre James Williamson, Tientsin - journey to Fang San Shien outstation 100 miles away; baptised his first convert Alexander Williamson, Chefoo [Yantai]
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_file_number Folder 5
scb_finding_aids A detailed list of Incoming Correspondence for North China, 1860-1898 (list G4), is available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library.
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0018.0002.00007