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G - General Secretary's Department - 1799-1966
A - Administration - 1799-1955
C - Correspondence - 1799-1949
16 - Miscellaneous correspondence, chiefly from overseas 1823-1877 - 1823-1877
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CMS/G/AC 16/292
Title
Letter from E. M. Blyden, Monrovia, to Mrs Kemble
Extent
1 item
Date
1868
Description
Dated 11 July. Two Vei men have asked him for copies of the scriptures in their language; the Veis invented the characters of the language themselves and maintained 'an extensive epistolary correspondence'; Mr Koelle of CMS studied the language in 1849 and brought away three Vei manuscripts with translations; asks for Mrs Kemble to contact CMS and obtain some printed works in Vei for Blyden's use.
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