South Africa, correspondence

Correspondence relating to the South Africa missions and districts of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society and Methodist Missionary Society. Correspondence primarily consists of letters from missionaries to the secretaries of the Society regarding their work. General...

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Date(s) of creation: 1807-1947
Level: Series
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id MMS.06.02
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber MMS/06/02
callnumber_txt MMS/06/02
callnumber-sort MMS/06/02
prefix_number 02
title South Africa, correspondence
scb_date_creation 1807-1947
scb_level Series
level_sort 4/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/
format Archive
description Correspondence relating to the South Africa missions and districts of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society and Methodist Missionary Society. Correspondence primarily consists of letters from missionaries to the secretaries of the Society regarding their work. General correspondence dates from 1807 to 1824 with the addition of correspondence relating to the autonomous South African Conference from 1883-1942. Correspondence for specific areas is available as follows: Albany (1825-1857), Bechuana (1838-1876), Bloemfontein (1876-1885), the Cape including Mauritius (1825-1885), Clerkebury (1881-1885), Grahamstown (1864-1885), Kaffraria (1858-1864), Mashonaland (1891-1898), Natal (1858-1885), Queenstown (1868-1885), and Transvaal and Swaziland (1881-). Please note that there are significant gaps in some of these correspondence sequences.
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_scripts_material Latin
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hierarchy_sequence MMS.0006.0002