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XCMS - Church Mission Society archive - 1799-2009
G - General Secretary's Department - 1799-1966
A - Administration - 1799-1955
C - Correspondence - 1799-1949
14 - Incoming correspondence from missionary societies in Europe and North America 1820-1866 - 1820-1866
14A - Evangelical Missionary Society, Basel (originally 'German Missionary Society', later 'Basel Mission', now 'mission21') - 1820-1850
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Item
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CMS/G/AC 14A/21
Title
Letter from Reverend Theophilus Blumhardt, Basel
Extent
1 item
Date
1823
Description
Dated 11 June. Sends greetings to 'our dear friend Mr Coates' from 'an absent friend, who invisibly lives in the midst of your Missionary House'; enquires why Schemel has left his work; agrees about the importance of lithography in the dissemination of mission information; sends two lithographed sheets of the first lines of the Koran, written by someone without any instruction in lithography; there is a suitable stone pit near Augsbourg.
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