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XCMS - Church Mission Society archive - 1799-2009
B - Overseas Division (initially 'Foreign Division') 1799-1959 - 1803-1959
OMS - Overseas mission series - 1803-1934
I2 - South India mission - 1815-1934
C E - Early Correspondence - 1815-1820
E3 - Correspondence, journals and papers: 9 May 1818 - 5 February 1820 - 1818-1820
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CMS/B/OMS/C I2 E3/119
Title
Letter from Rev. Charles Church to Thompson: 24 August 1819: Vizagapatam
Extent
1 doc.
Date
1819
Description
Missionaries have established several native schools which are doing well though they "never will do any good without the chaplains or missionary personal attendance"; is studying Tenugu [sic]; need for work amongst children of Portuguese, who are most neglected; a young man of the Veteran Battalion at Vizagapatam "a steady sober man of good character" would be suitable as schoolmaster; he would expect 5 pagodas a month, a house might be rented for 2 to 3 a month or a mud bungalow built for 10 or 12 pagodas; asks for Committee's advice.
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