South Africa,1816

Scope and Content

includes letters from:

James Read, Bethelsdorp, Conga's Kraal [Congaskraal], Graaff-Reinet, Grace Hill and Hephzibah - requests governor's permission for Joseph Williams and a 'Caffre Chief' to start mission; arrangements for work in Caffraria; ordination of Joseph Williams

Frederick Hooper, Bethelsdorp and Griquatown [Griekwastad] - ready to go to Madagascar

H F Mellet (South African Society), Cape Town (in Dutch)

J Scholtz, Stellenbosch (in Dutch)

Christopher Bird, colonial office - consent to extend mission;

Christopher Sass, Bethesda, Great River [Orange river, West of Griquatown]

William Anderson, Griquatown - trouble, but better now; 40 ready for baptism

Henry Helm, Griquatown and Cape Town

George Thom, Cape Town - description of ministry in Stellenbosch; his wife's death; itinerating

Lieutenant Colonel J G Cuyler, Uitenhage

Maglett Smith, Cape Town

Michael Vos, Caledon

John Bartlett, Cape Town

Pieter Hammes, Cape Town

William Corner, Griquatown [Griekwastad], Graaff-Reinet and Hephzibah

Robert Hamilton, Griquatown - visited Lattakoo, missionaries not wanted

joint letter from John Evans, Robert Hamilton and William Corner, Griquatown

extracts from letters of Cupido Kakkalak and William Corner, with note by James Read, Griquatown

John Seidenfaden, Caledon [Western Cape] (in Dutch and English)

John Campbell, Shacklewell, London

Joseph Williams, Kat River, Caffraria - report 15 Jun 1816-7 Aug 1817

Leonhardt Ebner, Peace Mountain

Henry Schmelen, Cape Town

Erasmus Smith, Grace Hill

George Burder, London - memo of talk with Christian Ignatius Latrobe [La Trobe]; Michael Wimmer refused permission to marry an African

Joseph Hardcastle, Hatcham [London]

George Barker, Theopolis

Cornelius Kramer, Goudenie {?near Stellenbosch]

Missionary Society, London - deployment of missionaries to Lattakoo, Malapeetze etc

Henry Goulburn, Colonial Office [London] - permission to missionaries to instruct Namaqualand and Caffraria

John Evans, Griquatown and Graaff-Reinet

Carl Pacalt, Hooge Kraal [High Kraal] - farmers oppose slaves learning, consider missionaries a 'pest'

Cornelius Kramer, Bosjeveld [Tulbagh] (in Dutch and English)

Report of Missonaries at Bethelsdorp for 1816

Access Information

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Other Finding Aids

Detailed lists for incoming correspondence from Southern Africa, 1797-1899 (lists E6 & E7), are available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library. Includes detailed precis of letters up to 1866.

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