Letter from Angela Trindade, Bombay [Mumbai], India, to Rev Edgar W Thompson, Didcot, Berks [Oxfordshire]

Thanks him for his letter and hopes the portrait is liked (a copy of a missionary portrait [?John Wesley] by [Frank Owen] Salisbury). Thoughts on the portrait and her religious convictions as a Roman Catholic. Her father's [Antonio Xavier Trindade] work as an artist. Comments on the racial prejudice...

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Order number: MMSL MSS 011
Date(s) of creation: 31 Dec 1953
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Order number: MMSL MSS 011
Summary: Thanks him for his letter and hopes the portrait is liked (a copy of a missionary portrait [?John Wesley] by [Frank Owen] Salisbury). Thoughts on the portrait and her religious convictions as a Roman Catholic. Her father's [Antonio Xavier Trindade] work as an artist. Comments on the racial prejudice she saw in the United States when she lived there for three years. Sees her art as part of her Christian faith.
Extent: 1 sheet
Admin history: Ms Angela Trindade (1909-1980), artist, India. Rev Edgar Wesley Thompson (1871-1963) served as a Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society missionary in their Mysore District of India from 1894 until 1919 and as a general secretary of the WMMS from 1919 until 1934.
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright 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
Format: Archive