| Arrangement | Below is a list of countries with CMS missions active between 1804 and 1959, listed alphabetically by present-day place name followed by related mission series with the unique mission reference which forms part of the finding number in [square brackets]. For example, records of CMS work in Greece are held in the Mediterranean mission series and the unique mission reference for the Mediterranean mission is ‘M’. Names of mission areas are given as they appear in the records; ‘speech marks’ indicate where a mission name is fully or partly composed of historical terms which are not in present-day use and include names or spellings introduced by colonial administrations. Where the name of a mission area changed between the start of the mission and 1959 the earliest name is given in (round brackets).
Antigua: West Indies [W]
Australia: New Zealand [N]
Barbados: West Indies [W]
Canada | Area now known as Canada: North-West Canada (North-West America) [C1]; British Columbia (North Pacific) [C2]
China: China mission [CH], Hong Kong (South China) [CH1]; ‘Chekiang’ (Mid-China) [CH2]; Western China [CH3]; ‘Fukien’ [CH4], ‘Kwangsi’ and Hunan [CH5]
Egypt: Mediterranean [M]; Palestine [P]; Egypt [E]
Ethiopia: Mediterranean [M]; East Africa [A5]
Greece: Mediterranean [M]
Guyana: West Indies [W]
India: India General [I]; North India [I1]; Himalaya [I1A]; ‘Madras’ [Chennai] (South India) [I2]; ‘Bombay’ [Mumbai] (Western India) [I3]; West Pakistan (Punjab and Sindh) [I4]; Kerala (Travancore and ‘Cochin’) [I5]; North-West Provinces [I6]; United Provinces [I7]; Central Provinces I8]; Dornakal (‘Telegu’) [I9]; ‘Tinnevelly’ [Tirunelveli] [I10]
Iran: Iran (‘Persia’) [PE]
Iraq: ‘Persia’ [PE], Turkish Arabia [TA]
Israel: Palestine [P]
Jamaica: West Indies [W]
Japan: Japan [J], China [CH]
Jordan: Jordan (Palestine) [P]
Kenya: Kenya (East Africa) [A5]
Madagascar: Mauritius [MA]
Malaysia: Malaya [MY]
Malta: Mediterranean [M]
Mauritius: Mauritius [MA]
New Zealand | Aotearoa: New Zealand [N]
Nigeria: Sierra Leone (West Africa) [A1]; (Abeokuta) [A2]; Niger [A3]; Northern Nigeria [A9]
Pakistan: West Pakistan (Punjab and Sindh) [I4]
Palestine: Mediterranean (M); Palestine [P]
Rwanda: ‘Ruanda’ [A11]
Seychelles: Mauritius [MA]
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone (West Africa) [A1]
South Africa: South Africa [A4]
South Sudan: Sudan [S]
Sri Lanka: ‘Ceylon’ [CE]; India General [I]
Sudan: Egypt [E], Northern Sudan [SN]
Tanzania: ‘Tanganyika’ [A8]
Trinidad and Tobago: West Indies [W]
Turkey: Mediterranean [M]
Uganda: Uganda [A7]; Kenya (East Africa) [A5]; Nyanza [A6]; Upper Nile [A10]; ‘Ruanda’ [Rwanda] [A11] |
| Administrative History | From 1826 onwards, one of the Secretaries at the CMS UK office, London ('headquarters') had the primary task of writing personal letters to individual missionaries as distinct from the official letters to Mission Secretaries.
A series of volumes for these private and confidential letters were used by some of the Secretaries in London from 1852 to 1914. Most of the volumes are marked 'Individual Letter-books' and contain not only personal letters, such as those of condolence or censure, but, for some Secretaries, topics that the individual Secretary had a special interest in.
Christopher Fenn was the last Secretary to be appointed specifically to write these personal letters and he continued the practice until his retirement in 1894.
The East Asia (Group 1) Secretaries continued to use the volumes until 1914; their letters mainly comprise the acknowledgment of missionaries' Annual Letters. |