West Africa, correspondence

Correspondence relating to the West Africa missions and districts of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society and Methodist Missionary Society, 1811-1950. Correspondence primarily consists of letters from missionaries to the secretaries of the Society regarding their work and from the district chai...

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Date(s) of creation: 1811-1950
Level: Series
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id MMS.05.02
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber MMS/05/02
callnumber_txt MMS/05/02
callnumber-sort MMS/05/02
prefix_number 02
title West Africa, correspondence
scb_date_creation 1811-1950
scb_level Series
level_sort 4/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/
format Archive
description Correspondence relating to the West Africa missions and districts of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society and Methodist Missionary Society, 1811-1950. Correspondence primarily consists of letters from missionaries to the secretaries of the Society regarding their work and from the district chairman on issues concerning missionary work within their district. Some later files also include copies of outgoing letters sent to missionaries and district chairman by the secretaries. Correspondence is available for Fernando Po (1932-1940), French West Africa (1925-), Gambia (1821-), Gold Coast (1835-), Sierra Leone (1811-), and Nigeria (1877-1902) with Eastern Nigeria (1932-) and also Western Nigeria (1902-).
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_scripts_material Latin
hierarchy_top_id_raw MMS
hierarchy_sequence MMS.0005.0002