Description | Karachi 1852-1857; Hyderabad 1857-1861; England 1862 /1-6 Letters 1852, 1854, 1858, 1861-62 including: /5A Request for type and Punjabi books: from James Sheldon, Andrew Burn and Matchett 1861; /5B Includes ground plan sketch of premises at Hyderabad purchased for school and church 1862; /6 Relates to Sindhi alphabet 1862;
/7-14 Journals 1851-57; /7 Journal of missionary tour through Sind [Sehwan, Larkana, Shikarpur] 25 Nov 1851 - 16 Jan 1852; /8 1 May - 31 Jul 1852 with covering letter: back page has thermometer readings in mission house Karachi Jun - Jul 1852: 6, 9, 10, 12a.m., 2, 3, 4 ,6 ,9p.m. /9 Jul - Oct 1852; /10 Nov 1851 - Mar 1853 [marked 'returned imperfect' but missing page is present: see CM 'Record' May 1854, p.104]; /11 Jan - Mar 1854 with covering letter [mentions two Mormon missionaries]: tour through Upper Sind: Kotri, Hyderabad, Sehwan, Larkana, Shikarpur, Jacobabad (including meeting Major Jacob), Shikarpur, Sukkur, Rohri (including seeing a strand of Mohammed's hair), Sehwan, Kotri, Karachi; /12A Covering letter for 12B: includes reference to Haji Mirza Mahommad Baqir of Kandahar whom Matchett had sent to Pfander; /12B 9 Nov 1854 - 22 Mar 1855: includes visit by Rev. Andrew Burn of Kotri Feb 1855; tour north to Shikarpur, east to Wanga bazaar and south to Shah Bunder; note at end relating to opinion resembling Paley's, concerning human conscience, prevalent amongst some churchmen in India and Sind, and gives testimony against it; /13 12 Nov 1855 - 22 Mar 1856: journal of missionary tour through Sind [extracts printed C. M Record Feb 1857] includes Kotri, Hyderabad, Halla, Noushera, Rohri, Shikarpur, Sehwan, Hyderabad; /14 Notes made during tour with Rev. Andrew Burn 31 Oct 1856 - 2 Feb 1857, with accompanying letter: includes Hyderabad, Muttari, Lal Odhera, Adam Khan's Tanda, Dilora and Brahminabad, Halla, Syud-ka-Goth, Mehur, Larkana, Shikarpur;
/15 Account of work: published in CM 'Intelligencer' [Apr 1859 pp.89-96] as "Missionary Labours in Sindh": with pen and ink illustrations, two surviving in MS, remainder removed and shown as engravings in the printed article; /16-21 Annual letters for 1854-59 |