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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/B/OMS/C CE O77
TitleKnight, Rev Joseph
Extent80 items
Date1818-1841
DescriptionChairman of mission 1835-1837; Nellore, Jaffna 1818-1838.

/1-47: Letters 1820-1840, including:
/1: From Joseph Knight and Benjamin Ward, 1820;
/12: Relates to educating girls, 1823;
/13: Relates to establishment of printing press, 1823;
/16: Relates to good relations with American missionaries, 1824;
/23: With note by S. Lambrick relating to birth of son, 1829;
/39: Relates to death of wife, 1837.

/48-52: Journals: Nov 1818-Jun 1823.

/53-67: Annual reports 1823-1825, 1827-1828, 1830-1837. Some signed by Joseph Knight and William Adley and [/65] with circulars from Faught and Trimnell, 1835.

/68-74: Various letters to:
/68: missionaries at annual meeting at Baddegama relating to purchase of Nellore premises, 1822;
/69: Mayor and Ward relating to spiritual awakening at American missionary stations 1824;
/70: Circular relating to Mrs Knight's health, 1832;
/71: Messrs. Kruse and Lieder [copy], 1840;
/72: Rev. M. Thompson of Madras [Chennai], 1819;
/73: Correspondence with Madras [Chennai] Corresponding Committee relating to Joseph Knight's joining Tinnevelly [Tirunelveli] mission, 1835.

/75-76: Annual report of Jaffna Branch Bible Society, 1831, 1835 [Joseph Knight Secretary].

/77: Jaffna Religious Tract Society: annual report [Joseph Knight Secretary], 1832-1833.
/78: Memorandum on the obstacles to the spread of Christianity in India, written at request of Rev Roberts, Wesleyan missionary, 1832.
/79: Joseph Knight's account with CMS, 1823.
/80: Extract from minutes of Missionary Union of North Ceylon [Sri Lanka] relating to death of Joseph Knight, 1841.
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