| Description | Records compiled by the committees of the CMS Overseas (Foreign) Division, London.
Comprising papers under the Committee of Correspondence, CMS Overseas ('Foreign') Division, London. Including outgoing correspondence from the mission to the CMS in London 1844-1847, and office copies of the incoming correspondence from the mission to London, 1844-1847. |
| Notes | When the catalogue was created names of mission stations were standardised but there was no attempt to give present-day place names where these differ from place names in the records. The bulk of names in the sub-number references are the spellings used in the documents.
Work is underway to address outdated, discriminatory, and offensive language in finding aids used by the Cadbury Research Library, and to improve accessibility of the online catalogue in line with current standards including adding present-day place names standardised according to 'The Times Atlas of the World', comprehensive edition, 2023. Copies of the original catalogues have been retained as a record. |
| Administrative History | In December 1840, the 'Himalayan Auxiliary Church Missionary Society' was set up at 'Simla' [present-day Shimla in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India]. Two missionaries were engaged and began work at Kotgarh (at the time named 'Kotgur') in April 1843.
In 1844 CMS took over responsibility for the mission, the funds were transferred to the Society and the CMS Auxiliary became the 'Simla Corresponding Committee' (also referred to as the 'Himalya Corresponding Committee).
The final meeting of the 'Simla Corresponding Committee' was held in September 1846. The Committee was dissolved because so many of its members had been moved to other stations. The work at [Shimla] and [Kotgarh] was placed under the 'Calcutta Corresponding Committee' which administered the North India mission. |