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           

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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
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prefix_number 018
title Papers regarding a visit to Sierra Leone by Edgar W Thompson and Stanley Sowton for the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
scb_date_creation 1923
scb_level File
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scb_extent 3 items
format Archive
scb_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.
description '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).
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright held by Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
scb_use_restrictions For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
language English
language_search English
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hierarchy_sequence MMSL_MSS.00018