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MMS/Special Series/Biographical/Home/Box 1391
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Been informed by Mr McAllum and Mr James Wood that Ballinghall wants to go to India and Ceylon [Sri Lanka] with him. Stationary Committee have unanimously approved this and believes [Wesleyan Methodist] Conference will as well. When this happens will write to him but he will need to be ready to travel to London as soon as convenient. May want to learn Portuguese language as spoken by many in Ceylon [Sri Lanka] as well as on the Eastern & Western coasts of India. Easy language to learn and nine other missionaries will learn it too. Will not be in London for a few weeks as needs to raise £3,000 before January when he plans to sail. Should make for better weather than in October. According to Dr Buchannan there are about five hundred thousand 'nominal' Christians in Ceylon [Sri Lanka] which is about 39 miles from India. Highest honour to promote Methodism in a country [India] with sixty million 'British subjects' and about one hundred million in Asia.
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Item 4h Coke mss list
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1 sheet
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Transcript apppears on page 694 of 'The letters of Dr. Thomas Coke' edited by John A. Vickers (2013).
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