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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)	CMS/B/OMS/C CE E1/6
Title	Letter from Twisleton to Rev. M. Thompson: 20 December 1815
Extent	1 doc.
Date	1815
Description	Mr. Norton has been sent to Mr. Thompson; he could not have been useful in Ceylon with such a small salary and the governor could not have given him a colonial chaplaincy without interfering with the right of patronage and appointment; it is useless to restrict a missionary's income; "he must not impress upon the natives an idea of poverty and of being in the second or third class of Europeans"; comments on Norton, Greenwood and [Christian Frederick Gottholf] Schroeder; describes preaching tour by Protestant missionaries, led by himself.
Access Status	Open

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