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MMS/Special Series/Biographical/Home/Box 1391
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Mr Barber, etc, agrees with Coke that Banwell should be Superintendent in Sierra Leone where [Thomas] Hirst and [John] Healey are already and where there are 96 members of the Society. Governor [Charles William Maxwell] is supporting the mission.
Otherwise can accompany Coke to Ceylon [Sri Lanka] and India. According to Dr Buchannan there are about half a million 'nominal' Christians in Ceylon [Sri Lanka] which is about 39 miles from India. Portuguese spoken there and on the Eastern & Western coasts of India and is an easy language to learn. Plan to sail in January. Coke will be as a father to him. Opportunity to spread Gospel among sixty million 'British subjects' in India. If Banwell does not go to Africa should go with Coke to Ceylon [Sri Lanka] which is a 'little Paradise'.
Postscript: Will he choose or should Coke choose for him?
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1 sheet
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| Custodial history: |
Presented to Wantage Methodist Church and accepted by a meeting of the Trustees of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, 5th Dec 1938. Transferred to Methodist Church Overseas Division, January 1983. |
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Restrictions Apply
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Please do not remove this item from its melinex sleeve
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| Copyright: |
Copyright held by Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes |
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For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance |
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English
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Latin
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Transcript apppears on page 697 of 'The letters of Dr. Thomas Coke' edited by John A. Vickers (2013).
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Archive
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