| collection |
SOAS Archive
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| id |
MMS.17.02.05.02.06.02
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| recordtype |
archive
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| scb_item_location |
Archive & Special Collections
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| item_location |
Archive & Special Collections
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| scb_loan_type |
Reference only
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| scb_order_with |
MMS/Special Series/Biographical/Central Africa/FBN 13 [570] & 14 [571-573]
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| callnumber |
MMS/17/02/05/02/06/02
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| callnumber_txt |
MMS/17/02/05/02/06/02
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| callnumber-sort |
MMS/17/02/05/02/06/02
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| prefix_number |
02
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| title |
Journal of Edwin W Smith
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| scb_date_creation |
13 August 1898-19 January 1901
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| scb_level |
Item
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| level_sort |
8/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File/Item
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| format |
Archive
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| scb_custodial_history |
This item was deposited by Smith with the MMS in the 1950s
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| description |
As Smith set off on his missionary career in Africa in 1898 he followed Livingstone's injunction that every missionary should keep a journal. It begins with an account of his voyage and activities on the way to Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Once there he made his way to his birthplace, Aliwal North, where he observed the mission before setting off for Lesotho. There he had practical training with the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society at Morija. His language studies and varied mission activities are described along with leisure trips and a Christmas tour around the PEMS stations which included a memorable visit to Thaba Bosiu and the Revd Jacottet. Smith went on to describe his ministry in the Aliwal North Circuit with accounts of places and people around the area. He married Julia Fitch on 3 October 1899 and after a honeymoon at Cape Town the couple settled in Aliwal North to make preparations for their mission to Zambia. However, the Anglo-Boer war had started (11 October 1899) and they were held up for a long time in Aliwal North. From November 1899 to March 1900 the town was occupied by Afrikaner troops and Smith described that period as well as the liberation and his daily work. There is a long gap from March to October 1900 when the journal resumed and included an account of a visit to Lesotho with his wife in December 1900 and January 1901. That is where this journal ended on 20 January 1901. [Smith kept other journals but apart from the 1909 diary, those from 1901 to 1915 were lost at sea through enemy action on the way back to Britain in 1915].
At the rear of the volume there are a few notes and newspaper cuttings. Loose within the volume are a few pressed plants and a couple of photographs.
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| scb_access_status |
Open
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| scb_conditions_gov_access |
Only to be viewed on microfiche
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| language |
English
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| language_search |
English
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| scb_related_material |
Photographs relating to this period can be found in MMS/Special Series/Biographical/Central Africa/611B.
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| note |
Much of the information for this entry was supplied by W. John Young, February 2010
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| hierarchy_top_id_raw |
MMS
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| hierarchy_sequence |
MMS.0017.0002.0005.0002.0006.0002
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