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B - Overseas Division (initially 'Foreign Division') 1799-1959 - 1803-1959
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1-104 - Correspondence, journals and papers relating to Calcutta, Madras and Ceylon missions: 26 September 1812 - 13 March 1815 - 1812-1815
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CMS/B/OMS/C I E/74
Title
Letter from Hon. Rev. T. J. Twisleton, colonial chaplain, to Pratt: 23 September 1814: Colombo
Extent
1 doc.
Date
1814
Description
Thanks for periodicals and promise of further supplies; has done and will always do his best to help any CMS missionaries; best gift from CMS would be a complete set of types and printing apparatus in Singhalese, which could be bought in Calcutta for about 2500 sicca rupees; great need for suitable tracts to translate into native languages; they are awaiting an archdeacon who is greatly needed
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