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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/B/OMS/C I2 O250
TitleThomas, John Fryer
Extent13 items
Date1827-1836
DescriptionJudge: England 1827-1829; Madras [Chennai], 'Combaconum' 1829-1836: member of 'Madras' Corresponding Committee
/1-10 Letters relating to committee affairs 1827, 1829, 1831, 1834-1836, including:
/1: relating to Ceylon [Sri Lanka] missionaries and Nilgherry Hills proposal, 1827 [refer to /O 251/9];
/2: on methods of conducting missions in India 1829;
/3: relating to Tinnevelly [Tirunelveli], 1831;
/5: relating to possible school for missionaries children in Nilgherry Hills, 1831;
/6B: application for Boden Professorship in Sanscrit at Oxford, with references, 1831 (printed);
/7: relating to disadvantages of having German missionaries working for Anglican society and adverse comments on Lutheran practices (speaking from experience in South Africa), 1834;
/10: note relating to Theophilus Barenbruck (aged 16) being sent to England with endorsed note by mission secretary, H. Mortlock, 1836.

/12: Letter to mission secretary, 1834.
/13: Copy of letter to Thomas from an 'East India gentleman' [1836]: relating to foundation of Indian Missionary Society.
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