| Description | 12 May: Bishop Heber justified his patronage of CMS by the support CMS gave to Bishop's College; his successor will find it difficult either to oppose or neglect CMS activities; the grant of £1,000 for 1825 has supported, not missions and schools, but Bishop's College, which SPG should support and the 'Calcutta Committee' has asked Corrie to write home to the effect that this was not the purpose for which the money had been collected; he wrote 15 Jul 1826 and sent letter to be forwarded by Goode and Crauford after they had added their comments; for the purchase of Mirzapore, Corrie obtained 15,000 rupees from the evangelical fund, for which the Committee pay interest; nothing is owed to Alexander & Co.; after drawing £700 above the annual grant for the passage money of Mrs. Wilkinson and Perowne and his family there is an adverse balance of 5,000 rupees on 1 May; collections at the stations for local use are going well, but the head pundit at Burdwan has been found in default; at Benares an influential committee has been formed to aid CMS; Corrie and his family are at Cossipore in Captain Fulton's house and can have the use of the bishop's house in Calcutta [Kolkata]; Corrie awaits anxiously the appointment of the new bishop; cannot trust himself to write of the present state of Bishop's College, but may do so later |