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Level	Item
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)	CMS/B/OMS/C I2 E1/2
Title	Letter from Charles Rhenius to Pratt: 12 May 1815: Madras
Extent	1 doc.
Date	1815
Description	Making good progress in Tamil studies; opened a Tamil and English Free school with 47 pupils; there have been frequent applications from Roman Catholics for Tamil New Testaments; nine heathen have applied for instruction; would be glad of blank maps of the world so that he may fill in names in Tamil; awaiting equipment left behind in London; the packets sent to Captain Poignand of the Madras Establishment have not yet arrived; awaiting arrival of Norton and Greenwood with the next fleet; glad to hear of the peace between England and America.
Access Status	Open

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