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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/B/OMS/C M O72
TitleZeller, Rev. John
Extent284 docs.
Date1855-1880
DescriptionJerusalem 1855-1857; Nazareth 1858-1876, with visits to Europe 1858-1859, 1869, 1876-1877 and travels in Syria and Palestine; Jerusalem 1877-1880
/1-251 Letters 1855-1880 including:
/2 Letter from Prussian consul, Jerusalem 1856;
/6 Letter from Samuel Muller, Nazareth 1857;
/14 Letter from Mrs. Hannah Zeller 1859;
/25 Encloses paper on reasons for supporting missions in Palestine 1862;
/28B Paper relating to persecution of Protestants at Shefamer near Nazareth 1863;
/40B Copy of Zeller's protest against the proceedings of Turkish government, with regard to attacks made by Latins and Greeks upon the mission premises at Nazareth and Renah in Nov 1864;
/64B List of Roman Catholic establishments in Palestine 1866;
/78B Plan of new church at Nazareth 1868;
/123B-C Biography of Michael Kawar [pastor] 1871; with letter from Bishop Gobat, Jerusalem 9 Jun 1855;
/131 Account of opening of church at Nazareth 1 Oct 1871;
/154B Letter to Female Education Society petitioning against Miss Rose Khawar of the FES: from Protestant congregation at Nazareth 1872 [see O8/91];
/175C Letter from Rufka Sabunji relating to Jerusalem girls' school 1874;
/179B Letter from Zeller to T. J. Elderidge, British Consul General, Beirut 1874;
/183B Correspondence relating to and sketch of chapel at Salt 1874;
/185B Copy of letter from Wali of Damascus to T. J. Eldridge 1874;
/210B Copy of letter from Moustafa Fazal Pasha to the Sultan 1876;
/220B-H, 228C Plans and photograph [/220H] of Bishop Gobat's School, Jerusalem 1876;
/228B Estimate of expenditure of bishop of Jerusalem's mission in Palestine being transferred to CMS 1877;
/245B List of tracts, pamphlets and books printed at the Jerusalem Mission Press 1879;

/252-266 Journals:
/252 Journal extracts: Dec 1855 - May 1856;
/253 Journal: Feb-Jun 1860, with visit to Beirut and Damascus;
/254 Journal: May-Aug 1861;
/255 May 1863: travel to the Hauran: Basra, Shahba, Damascus;
/256 Journal: Jun-Sep 1863 including account of the Beni Sakkar;
/257 Aug 1864: travel to Yerka, north of Acre;
/258 May 1864: travel to Jebel Ajlum;
/259 Report of work at Shefamer by Seraphim Boutaji 1864;
/260 Journal relating to attacks made by Latins ... upon our school, May 1865;
/261 May 1865: visit of the bishop of Jerusalem in Galilee: Haifa, Nazareth, Reneh, Shefamer, Yafa, Jenin, Sebastya, Nous esh been;
/262 Mar 1866: with section on "the cholera in Palestine";
/263 Jun 1866: travel to Caesarea and Carmel;
/264 Paper on the Bedouin 1867;
/265 Journal extracts: Jan-Aug 1867;
/266 Journey to Salt Oct 1871;

/267-281 Annual letters for 1857, 1859, 1861-1879;
/282-284 Annual reports of Bishop Gobat's School and Orphanage, Jerusalem 1879-1880; [/282 is printed]
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