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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/B/OMS/C CE E1/57
TitleLetter from Pratt and Bickersteth to Mayor: 20 September 1819: London
Extent1 doc.
Date1819
DescriptionLetters received; give dates of letters as do not always know by what ships they come; B. spent an hour or two with M.'s brother at Collingham in Jun; SPG and SPCK have each voted £5,000 for college which bishop of Calcutta proposes to establish at Calcutta; CMS have agreed to grant £5,000 hoping that "the mind of the bishop may be conciliated and that he may see we are disinterestedly aiming at the promotion of that one common end which should be first in the eye of every Christian" [copy].
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