Papers regarding a visit to Sierra Leone by Edgar W Thompson and Stanley Sowton for the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society

'Memorandum on Visit to Sierra Leone' [by Edgar W Thompson], 9 January [19]23 (4 pages); Copy letter from E H Cummings, Freetown, Sierra Leone, to Rev W Arnold Bethel, Chairman & Gen[eral] Sup[erintenden]t, Wesleyan Missions [Sierra Leone], re finances, 30 January 1923 (1 page); Copy (11 April [...

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Order number: MMSL MSS 018
Date(s) of creation: 1923
Level: File
Format: Archive           

Order number: MMSL MSS 018
Summary: 'Memorandum on Visit to Sierra Leone' [by Edgar W Thompson], 9 January [19]23 (4 pages); Copy letter from E H Cummings, Freetown, Sierra Leone, to Rev W Arnold Bethel, Chairman & Gen[eral] Sup[erintenden]t, Wesleyan Missions [Sierra Leone], re finances, 30 January 1923 (1 page); Copy (11 April [19]23) of a 'Report of Special Visit to The Sierra Leone District, February 1923', by Edgar W Thompson and Stanley Sowton, 21 March 1923 (20 pages).
Extent: 3 items
Admin history: 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. Stanley Sowton (1875-1958), contributor to and advocate for the Juvenile Missionary Association who worked in finance for the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society at Mission House, London, from 1906 until 1942.
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