Homepage

Record

LevelItem
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/B/OMS/C A1 E5/43
TitleLetter from Wenzel to Pratt: 22 September 1815: Sierra Leone
Extent1 doc.
Date1815
DescriptionHe has found neither medical advice nor medicine in S. L. and his health remains very poor. In addition to the Macaulay bill [see E5/42] there will be one for Leigh.
On 21 Sep Mrs. Schulze died in childbirth and the following day the child also. He has talked and dined with MacCarthy who wishes that the missionaries would leave the country for S. L. MacCarthy turned down Mrs. Klein's request for working girls for the Isles de Los, refusing to allow any to leave the Colony.
Postscript: He was told by a post captain on the Isles de Los that Lewis Gomez was determined to follow a Christian life and was refusing his father's wish that he become a Roman Catholic.
Enclosure: Copy of a prayer by Lewis Gomez written in Wenzel's Susu grammar.
Access StatusOpen
Physical DescriptionE5-8: The numbers are all original numbers with minor amendments.
    Skip to main content

    Useful Links

    Showcase

    Some of our most significant collections

    Explore showcase