Copies of outgoing letters

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Copies of outgoing letters sent by the Foreign Missions Committee of the Presbyterian Church of England. There are large gaps in the series.

Letters address topics including dwindling funds; funds for the Tainan hospital; several letters to Mr. Barclay about indigenous projects such as hospitals; increase in Sunday schools for children; storm in Takow in 1904 and its' aftermath; factionalism within the missionaries; difficulty in the Taiwanese climate; closure of hospital in 1905; effects of the war in 1904; training women in the women's ward in Wukingfu Hospital in 1904; building a women's hospital in Engchhun; language studies in the Amoy Anglo-Chinese College; proposal to make the Hakka district in Wukingfu the center of missionary activity; Tek-hoe flood in 1904; mapping the island with Japanese blueprints; social impact of missionary work; minutes re discussion about the rules for the native churches.

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