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Level	Series
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)	CMS/B/OMS/G2 I1 L
Title	Letter-books [outgoing]
Extent	12 vols.
Date	1881-1934
Description	The letter-books contain copies of outgoing correspondence from Secretaries at headquarters as Committee's representatives to missionaries, also occasionally copies of correspondence and papers from others concerned with the mission affairs in Britain and overseas. The volume have name indexes. Nearly all the letter-books contain detailed memoranda and papers concerning the building of mission premises. Many of the letters are marked in red ink with the cross-reference number of the relevant minute of the Corresponding Committee to which the letter refers.
Access Status	Open
Administrative History	Mission secretary: 1881-1884 Henry Perrott Parker 1884-1892 Alfred Clifford Parker 1892-1893 Philip Ireland Jones 1893-1896 Henry Drummond Williamson 1896-1900 William Henry Ball 1900-1902 Edward Theodore Sandys 1902-1905 William Henry Ball 1905-1924 Edward Theodore Sandys [Mar 1907 - Nov 1908; Jan 1914 - Jan 1915 Edward Thomas Butler; Apr 1920 - Nov 1921 Robert Freeman Pearce] 1924-1934 Robert Freeman Pearce [Mar 1929 - Jan 1930 Ernest Thomas Noakes]

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