includes letters from Surat by:
Thomas Salmon - printing
joint letter from William Fyvie, Thomas Salmon and James Massie, Surat - proposal for mission in Bombay; American missionaries approve
Joint letters from William Fyvie and Alexander Fyvie - purchase of land for mission chapel; arrival of Thomas and Mrs Salmon with printing press; pleas for missions in Bombay [Mumbai] and Ahmedabad [Ahmadabad]; request lithographic press; Bombay Missionary Union formed
William Fyvie - presses for establishment of Bombay mission following sudden death of Gordon Hall (senior American missionary in Bombay)
Alexander Fyvie (secretary) - proceedings leading to formation of Bombay Missionary Union