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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/G/AC 18/3
Title'Miscellaneous Home and Foreign Mission Book' 27 September 1847-27 July 1870
Extent1 volume
Date1847-1870
DescriptionPages 85-91: letter of reply from Rev S. A. Worcester, Park Hill, Cherokee Nation, concerning the Cherokee language with references to syllabic writing, reading and correspondence, 4 March 1851.
Pages 211-212: testimonials from Kings College, London for Messrs Samuel Campbell, William B. Davies and James Horton, medical students [from Africa], 9 July 1856.
Pages 216-219: letters from D. H. Schmid, [Chaplain],Warsaw, 11 and 28 July 1856.
Pages 238-242: letter to John Straith from John Telford, former CMS missionary (New Zealand), Port Macquarie, New South Wales, 28 August 1856: accepts the Committee's offer of continuation of his salary in return for finishing his Maori dictionary; Port Macquarie 'is justly celebrated for the fierceness of its climate, and for the astonishing cases of pulmonary disease cured through its instrumentality'; teaches in Mr O'Reilly's Sabbath School; hopes to conduct some work on the Macquarie District language.
Pages 368-370; 371-374: Letters from J. P. Fearon, Great George Street, Westminster, concerning 'Hussey's Charity-Slave Fund', 1862-1863.
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