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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/ACC112 C5
TitleLetter from Corrie to Phipps : Deyruh Dhoon
Extent1 item
Date1825
Description31 Mar: Newton gives a discouraging account of Calcutta [Kolkata] affairs and he and the bishop both want Corrie to continue there instead of settling up country; Thomason has ceased active work and wants to retire; the new chaplain at the Old Church is not liked; Bishop's College languishes under inadequate support; Fisher has three native converts, men of learning, who would profit by a seminary course if one could be established at Meerut; Corrie feels he would be more useful in raising funds for this outside Calcutta than in it; the bishop confirmed 150 natives on his tour of the CMS stations of the presidency; female education goes ahead under the Ladies Society and Mrs. Wilson in Calcutta [Kolkata]; hopes to be in 'Calcutta' at the end of Oct.
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