| Description | 4 Apr: Phipps' letter received from Mr. Fayre who has gone to Mirzapore, near Benares; the Calcutta Committee had printed extracts of regulation for missionaries from hints supplied in letters from home "as in all new bodies I suppose there has been less precision on these points than the altered circumstances allow"; is glad that the Secretaries are drawing up rules for the guidance of missionaries; criticises headquarters Committee's letter on missionaries' salaries as fixing them far too low at 133 rupees a month; the exchange at 2/6 is unfair, 2/- the bullion value is right; if missionaries are underpaid they cannot treat their native servants fairly; native workers' pay should be allowed separately, or a separate allowance made when missionaries go on sick leave; asks Phipps to press for some mention of support for Christian effort when the East India Company's charter is renewed; at present no help has come from the new governor-general; Thomason has been dangerously ill, but is better and is going to the Isle of France; he wants to return to India but his doctor forbids it; Goode has stopped at the Cape for his wife to join him; Corrie feels bereft of counsel, but hopes Mrs. Corrie will rejoin him if the children's health permits |