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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/B/OMS/C CH O27
TitleCollins, Rev. William Henry
Extent80 docs.
Date1857-1880
DescriptionShanghai 1858-1863; Peking 1863-1869, 1872-1880
/1-59 Letters 1858-1869, 1872-1880 including:
/6 [Incomplete];
/14 Relating to murder of 2 American missionaries at Yen t'ai [Chefoo] 1861;
/20B Correspondence with Frederick Harvey, HM Consul, Ningpo relating to compensation for damage to mission 1863;
/20C Translation of letter from Deacon Dzaw Tsang-Lee ["Dzau Tsung Le"], Shanghai 1863;
/22 [Incomplete];
/28 Relating to drought: includes extracts from Imperial Edicts and from letter of Rev. C. R. Mills [American Presbyterian Mission] 1867;
/30B Copies of correspondence between Collins and Bishop Burdon relating to their conflict 1867;
/32B Includes letter from Miss R. A. Webb [FES] relating to Mrs. Collins' school 1868;
/49 Relating to proposed SPG bishopric at Peking 1879;

/60-66 Journals:
/60 Voyage out 1857-1858;
/61 Feb-Mar 1867;
/62 Dec 1868;
/63 350 miles in Fukien Province Oct 1874;
/64 Visit to Yung Ching outstation; 3 pencil sketches of scenes Mar 1871;
/65 Famine relief work in south Chihli Jun 1878;
/66 Evangelistic and famine relief work Nov-Dec 1879;

/67-78 Annual letters 1860-1862, 1868, 1872-1879;
/79 Letter to Rev. T. McClatchie 1875;
/80 Letter from Mrs. Collins, Switzerland to CMS 1880
Access StatusOpen
URLhttp://www.researchsource.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/CMS_I_Part10_Reel220_Vol5

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