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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 O - Original papers [incoming] - 1819-1880
17-270 - Letters, journals and papers of individual missionaries, catechists, and others - 1817-1880
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File
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CMS/B/OMS/C I2 O220
Title
Seymer, John Gunning
Extent
12 docs.
Date
1841-1857
Description
Blind: Madras, translation work
/1-3 Letters 1841, 1851:
/1-2 HQ clerk's copies with [/1] original 1841;
/3A-B Application to be Oriental instructor at Islington [emphasizing importance of learning basic language before going abroad] 1851;
/4-12 Half-yearly reports 1853:
/4-8 Relating to preparation and printing of Tamil/English grammar 1853-1855;
/8-12 Relating to translation into Tamil of 'Marshman's Brief Survey of History' 1855-1857
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