Record

LevelSub-sub-series
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/G/AC 18
TitleMiscellaneous correspondence books 1820-1870
Extent3 volumes
Date1820-1870
DescriptionOffice copies of incoming correspondence with clerks' annotations giving date and name of correspondent, date of receipt, date on which the item came before committee, date answered and a number, in red ink, matching that on the document from which the copy was made. Largely comprising copies of letters from missionary societies in Europe and North America and from places overseas where CMS had no mission work up to 1847; the third volume, dated 1847-1870, incorporates miscellaneous items of 'home' as well as 'foreign' correspondence [the change in scope of the volumes coincides with the start of Henry Venn's Secretaryship]. Correspondents include CMS missionaries recruited from European institutions; overseas bishops; a few British missionaries writing from England and former missionaries writing from overseas; the CMS President and others.

Each volume has a name index; items other than letters, such as reports, extracts, memoranda, petitions and medical certificates, are listed as separate entries in the alphabetical sequence.

For the overseas correspondence from which copies were made, see CMS/G/AC 14-16.
ArrangementIn date order of receipt; subdivided by year.
Access StatusOpen
Archival NoteAn archive number at the beginning of the volumes suggests that prior to the arrangement of the archives as they were received by Special Collections, University of Birmingham, the volumes formed part of a [Committee of Correspondence?] record sequence numbered 'C Misc/M'.

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