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LevelSeries
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/B/OMS/C MA I
TitleIndividual letter-books [outgoing]
Extent3 vols.
Date1863-1889
DescriptionFrom 1826 onwards one of the Secretaries at headquarters had the primary task of writing personal letters to individual missionaries [as distinct from the official letters to the mission secretary]. A series of volumes for these private and confidential letters was used by many of the Secretaries from 1852 to about 1880. Most of the volumes are marked as 'Individual Letter-books' and contain not only personal letters, such as those of condolence or censure, but (for some Secretaries) topics that the individual Secretary had a special interest in.
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