Philip Family Letters, 1841-1882

Copies of family letters, including letters from Dr John Philip, Jane Philip (wife of John Philip), William Enowy Philip and Thomas Durant Philip (sons of John and Jane Philip), John Lethem Philip (son of William Enowy Philip and Alison Blair Philip), and letters to Dr John Philip, William Enowy Phi...

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Order number: CWML MSS 224
Date(s) of creation: [1964]
Level: Item
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWML_MSS.224
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWML MSS 224
callnumber CWML MSS/224
callnumber_txt CWML MSS/224
callnumber-sort CWML MSS/224
prefix_number 224
scb_previous_numbers CWML Q26
title Philip Family Letters, 1841-1882
scb_date_creation [1964]
scb_level Item
level_sort 8/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File/Item
scb_extent 1 vol (148 pp)
format Archive
scb_admin_history John Philip (1775-1851) was a missionary with the London Missionary Society in South Africa from 1818, and Superintendent of the Society's South Africa Missions. For a full biographical history see Sibree's 'London Missionary Society Register of Missionaries, 1796-1923'.
scb_custodial_history The originals of these letters are in the possession of William Enowy Philip's great grandson, Peter Philip, a civil servant in the South African government. Copy was given to Miss Joan H. Davies, Archivist in London, seconded from Praetoria, who gave a set of the copies she had made to the London Missionary Society in October 1964.
description Copies of family letters, including letters from Dr John Philip, Jane Philip (wife of John Philip), William Enowy Philip and Thomas Durant Philip (sons of John and Jane Philip), John Lethem Philip (son of William Enowy Philip and Alison Blair Philip), and letters to Dr John Philip, William Enowy Philip and Alison Blair Philip. Also includes a 'Biographical Sketch of the Reverend William Enowy Philip, Believed to be by His Brother, the Reverend Thomas Durant Philip'. Includes index.
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWML MSS
hierarchy_sequence CWML_MSS.00224