An address entitled 'The Gold Coast - Yesterday and Today!' by Rev E Sawyer with related correspondence

Typescript manuscript of an address entitled 'The Gold Coast - Yesterday and Today!' given by Rev Ernest Sawyer at the Conference Missionary Meeting of 1942. Letters from Revs H R Rattenbury, F W Dodds and Harry [Belshaw] to Saywer on his address and 'Advance in Africa', 1942. Letter from Rev Sawyer...

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Order number: MMS/Special Series/Notes and Transcripts 2/Box 1217
Date(s) of creation: 1942
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: MMS/Special Series/Notes and Transcripts 2/Box 1217
Summary: Typescript manuscript of an address entitled 'The Gold Coast - Yesterday and Today!' given by Rev Ernest Sawyer at the Conference Missionary Meeting of 1942. Letters from Revs H R Rattenbury, F W Dodds and Harry [Belshaw] to Saywer on his address and 'Advance in Africa', 1942. Letter from Rev Sawyer, Hull [Yorkshire], to Rattenbury responding to comments on his address, giving an overiew to his and others work in the Ashanti mission and how said work could be further promoted, 19 July [19]42.
Extent: 5 items
Admin history: Rev Ernest Sawyer (1907-1993) served the Methodist Missionary Society in their Gold Coast District from 1932 to 1953. Rev Harold Burgoyne Rattenbury (1878-1961) served as a Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society missionary in their Wuchang District of China from 1902 until 1934 and as a general secretary of the Methodist Missionary Society from 1934 until 1950. Rev Frederick William Dodds (1884-1966) served the (Primitive) Methodist Missionary Society as a missionary in Nigeria from 1909 to 1939. From 1939 to 1950 he served as Africa Secretary o ... View more
Custodial history: Gift to Methodist Church Overseas Division from Rev Ernest Sawyer, March 1983
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright held by Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
User restrictions: For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
Language: English
Scripts: Latin
Format: Archive