includes letters from:
Colonel John Munro (outgoing British resident), Quilon - to Richard Knill
Richard Knill, Colombo, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka] and Madras [later Chennai] - he and Charles Mead had been ill; Travancore promising field but he obliged to return to England on health grounds; report on missionaries' work in Madras
Charles Mault, Bombay [later Mumbai] and Cochin - arrival, outbreak of cholera, how Christians bore the strain; caste difficulties; new church at Agatesuram; central school to be established at Nagercoil; statement of expenditure of Rajah's gift.
Charles Mead, Nagercoil - applying for government permission to set up printing press; arrival of Thomas Nicholson