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           

collection SOAS Archive
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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with MMS/Special Series/Notes and Transcripts 2/Box 1217
callnumber MMS/17/01/02/015
callnumber_txt MMS/17/01/02/015
callnumber-sort MMS/17/01/02/015
prefix_number 015
title An address entitled 'The Gold Coast - Yesterday and Today!' by Rev E Sawyer with related correspondence
scb_date_creation 1942
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 5 items
format Archive
scb_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 of the MMS. Rev Harry Belshaw (1908-1953) served the Methodist Missionary Society in their Gold Coast District from 1936 to 1948.
scb_custodial_history Gift to Methodist Church Overseas Division from Rev Ernest Sawyer, March 1983
description 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.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright held by Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
scb_use_restrictions For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
language English
language_search English
scb_scripts_material Latin
hierarchy_top_id_raw MMS
hierarchy_sequence MMS.0017.0001.0002.00015

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