Rev Henry Little journal

Journal beginning with Rev Little's preparations for departure from England (5 January 1863) and ends whilst travelling near Trichinopoly in India (19 February 1878). With one additional entry for 28 May 1896. Entries not entirely chronological and often made infrequently. Front of volume has a hand...

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Order number: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/India/FBN 22 (fiche 952-953)
Date(s) of creation: 1863- 1896
Level: Sub-series
Format: Archive           
Main author: Little; Henry (1839-1912); ordained and educational missionary

Order number: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/India/FBN 22 (fiche 952-953)
Summary: Journal beginning with Rev Little's preparations for departure from England (5 January 1863) and ends whilst travelling near Trichinopoly in India (19 February 1878). With one additional entry for 28 May 1896. Entries not entirely chronological and often made infrequently. Front of volume has a hand drawn map showing route taken by SS 'Golden Fleece' from London to Madras [Chennai] 1863. Rear of volume has hand drawn map of the routes of the 'Maori' and SS 'Teuton' from Madras [Chennai] via Cape Town, South Africa, to London (1873-1874) & route of P & O 'Mongolia' leaving England 4 December 1874 and arriving Madras [Chennai] 5 January 1875. With list of sermons preached in 1863 & 1864.
Main author: Little; Henry (1839-1912); ordained and educational missionary
Extent: 1 volume
Admin history: Henry Little was born in Patterdale, Cumbria, on 21 September 1839. He converted to Methodism in 1856, entered the Wesleyan Methodist ministry in 1862 and enrolled at Richmond College the same year. From 1863 Little worked in India, originally in the Madras district where he served in a number of missions including Negapatam [Nagapattinam]. After a furlough in England in 1873 he returned to India to work in the same district but this time at Karur where, three years later, the great famine had such a major impact on his work. In the aftermath o ... View more
Arrangement: 1863-1878, 1896
Access status: Open
Access conditions: Only to be viewed on microfiche
Copyright: Copyright probably held by Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
User restrictions: For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
Language: English
Related material: Also within the records of the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society is the official correspondence for Henry Little (MMS/India/Correspondence/Madras/FBN 23-25 & MMS/India/Correspondence/Negapatam/FBN 39). Further information on Little's work, as well as the work of his colleagues, will be contained in the relevant Synod Minutes (MMS/India/Synod Minutes/FBN 1-3). Letters (or extracts from them) by Rev Little and his wife appear in Methodist missionary magazines, particularly in 'The Harvest Field' and the Women's Work magazines.
Format: Archive