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XCMS - Church Missionary Society archive - 1799-2009
B - Overseas Division (initially 'Foreign Division') 1799-1959 - 1803-1959
OMS - Overseas mission series - 1803-1934
CE - Ceylon mission - 1815-1934
C E - Early correspondence - 1815-1820
1 - Letters and papers: 3 April 1815 - 17 February 1820 - 1815-1820
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Item
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CMS/B/OMS/C CE E1/12
Title
Letter from Sir Alexander Johnston to Pratt: 3 July 1816: Colombo
Extent
1 doc.
Date
1816
Description
Sends translations [9-11]; the maha modliar of the Cinnamon Department has proposed a plan for the spread of Christianity among his people; two young men who were to have been educated in England by CMS have had to decline; proposes to replace them by two suggested by the modliar; sends letters [13-18].
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