North India (Gujerat),1847

Scope and Content

includes letters from:

William Fyvie, Bombay, on board steamship Charles Carroll, Boston (USA) and Oxford (Massachusetts)

William Clarkson, Baroda [Vadodara], Mahabuleshwar and Bombay - welcomes prospect of Miss Eliza Sarah Pritchard joining mission; printed proposal to transfer Baroda mission to Mye [Mahi] river; encouraging progress among lower castes; Mye river station proposals with rough map enclosed

Joseph Van Someren Taylor, (Camp) Baroda - compares possibilities of Baroda with successes of Travancore; to marry Eliza Sarah Pritchard

joint letters from William Clarkson and Joseph Van Someren Taylor, Baroda - mission finances; urgent need to establish a Christian village

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Other Finding Aids

A detailed list of Incoming Correspondence for Gujerat, 1817-1860 (list F2), is available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library.

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