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SOAS Archive
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MMS.17.02.00.03.01.01.27
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archive
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Archive & Special Collections
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Archive & Special Collections
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Reference only
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MMS/Special Series/Biographical/Home/Box 1391
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MMS/17/02/00/03/01/01/27
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MMS/17/02/00/03/01/01/27
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MMS/17/02/00/03/01/01/27
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27
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Item 4q Coke mss list
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Letter from T[homas] Coke, 'On the South Pacific Ocean, not a great way from the Island of Madagascar' to the Missionary Committee via Revd Robert Smith, 8 John's Street, Spitalfields, London
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13 Apr 1814
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Item
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8/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File/Item
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2 items
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Archive
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Original letter with typed transcript.
Sending this letter via a British Frigate which is going to the Isle of France [Mauritius] but letter unlikely to reach Smith before [Wesleyan Methodist] Conference concludes. Already sent letters via 'Brazils', St Helena and the Cape [of Good Hope, South Africa] where he has requested [Wesleyan Methodist] Conference to send him two licenced missionaries to work on the Continent [India] - as well as a licence for himself to Calcutta [Kolkata, India] in May or June next year. Should enquire for him with Rev Tho[mas] Thomason, Chaplain to East India Company or for George Udney. Asks Smith to write to him via one of these two.
Has letters of recommendation for Bombay [Mumbai, India]. Unless he has the two missionaries he requests then he will not have any missionaries for Travancore, Tranquebar [Tharangambadi], Tanjore [Thanjavur], Madras [Chennai], Calcutta [Kolkata] and Rajamaughl [all India]. Reiterates message in former letters that he will lend or give the money for the mission. Promises to write from Bombay [Mumbai].
In a postscript repeats need for two missionaries and Thomason and Udney as contacts. Will visit Ceylon [Sri Lanka] from Bombay [Mumbai]. Will be heartbroken if there is no one to take up his work. Passes on regards of companions.
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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 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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English
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Latin
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A transcript apppears on page 724 of 'The letters of Dr. Thomas Coke' edited by John A. Vickers (2013).
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MMS
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MMS.0017.0002.0000.0003.0001.0001.0027
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