Series of letters (some copies) from Forster & Smith, London, to T B Freeman, Cape Coast [Ghana]

Costs of provisions and supplies. However, a number of the letters discuss business interests, the Colonial Office and West Africa, the war in the Crimea, mutual friends, the death and estate of Mr Sinclair (for whom Freeman is an executor) and occasionally British politics. Most of the more discurs...

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Archive & Special Collections MMS/17/02/03/10/02/02/05 Open

Order number: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/West Africa/597B
Date(s) of creation: c January 1855-December 1855
Level: File
Format: Archive           

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title Series of letters (some copies) from Forster & Smith, London, to T B Freeman, Cape Coast [Ghana]
scb_date_creation c January 1855-December 1855
scb_level File
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scb_extent 38 sheets
format Archive
scb_custodial_history Given to the Methodist Church by Mrs H Birtwhistle of Worcester
scb_acquisition Transferred to SOAS, March 2003
description Costs of provisions and supplies. However, a number of the letters discuss business interests, the Colonial Office and West Africa, the war in the Crimea, mutual friends, the death and estate of Mr Sinclair (for whom Freeman is an executor) and occasionally British politics. Most of the more discursive letters were written by J Forster.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright held by Methodist Missionary SocietyApply to SOAS Archives & Special Collections in the first instance
language English
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scb_file_number 15
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