| Description | Two photostat copies of letter from S. Gobat, bishop in Jerusalem, to Rev R T Lieder, Cairo: 9 December 1855: Jerusalem: commends four missionaries whom he is sending to Abyssinia as laymen and asks him to care for them while they are in Cairo. He writes regarding the report from Dr Krapf and Mr Flad which he describes as discouraging but says he has decided to send the four as settlers with their first aim to distribute Bibles and New Testaments in Amharic. |