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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/B/OMS/C I1 O255
TitleSchmid, Rev. Deocar
Extent44 docs.
Date1819-1828
DescriptionAssistant Secretary to Corresponding Committee 1826: Calcutta 1819-1828 [taken on fund of European Orphan Asylum 1820]
/1-26 Letters 1819-1828 including:
/8 Includes reference to Mr. (T. W.) Smyth and Miss Mary Ann Lawler 1824;
/11 Includes reference to Mary Crawford, appointed schoolmistress at Cape of Good Hope 1824;

/27 Extracts of letters from Mr. and Mrs. Roger Edwards (nee Mary Crawford) at Theophilis (London Missionary Society station) [500m north of Cape Town] 1827;
/28A-B Letter from Rammohun Roy 1827, enclosing memorial of Nov 1823 to governor-general [Lord Amherst] against Sanskrit system of education [see /37];

/29-38 Papers as secretary to Corresponding Committee 1826-1828 including:
/30 Letter to editor of 'Friend of India' 1826;
/33 Letter from Rev. John Mack, answering /30 1826;
/38B Statement relating to persons [list includes Roop] residing on CMS premises at Mirzapore [1827];

/39 Sermon preached at ordination of William Bowley 1820;
/40 Address at ordination of William Bowley 1820;
/41 Address at ordination of Abdul Masih 1820;
/42 Letter to Mr. A. from N. N. (pupil at Calcutta European Female Orphan Asylum) 1820;
/43 Writing exercise done by girls at Calcutta Female Orphan Asylum 1820;
/44 Plan of view of Christianity from Scripture by Schmid 1820
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