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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/B/OMS/C I1 E1/22
TitleLetter from Thomason: 5 June 1816: Calcutta
Extent1 doc.
Date1816
DescriptionMissionaries arrived 5 May; they are to be placed in the new mission establishment in charge of Robertson's Hindu boys, who will be removed there under McCabe, Robertson's assistant; here there will be ample scope for village pastoral work and it is near the school given by a Hindu; T. feels it also expedient to attach Greenwood to his Calcutta church, in view of the bishop's dislike of CMS and refusal to allow its ordained missionaries to preach in his churches; the test will come when T. asks for bishop to license Greenwood; enclosures
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