Ceylon, correspondence

Correspondence relating to the Ceylon [i.e., Sri Lanka] district and missions of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society and Methodist Missionary Society, 1814-1950. Correspondence primarily consists of letters from missionaries to the secretaries of the Society regarding their work and from the d...

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Date(s) of creation: 1814-1950
Level: Series
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id MMS.10.03
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber MMS/10/03
callnumber_txt MMS/10/03
callnumber-sort MMS/10/03
prefix_number 03
title Ceylon, correspondence
scb_date_creation 1814-1950
scb_level Series
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format Archive
description Correspondence relating to the Ceylon [i.e., Sri Lanka] district and missions of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society and Methodist Missionary Society, 1814-1950. 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. General correspondence exists from 1814 to 1867 and from 1935. Correspondence is also available for Colombo (1885-1906), Galle & Kandy (1885-1905), North Ceylon (1867-1935) and South Ceylon (1868-1935).
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_scripts_material Latin
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hierarchy_sequence MMS.0010.0003