includes letters from:
Frederick Stephens, Birmingham
Edward Jones (deputation secretary), London - his resignation
W Gibbon, Swansea [Wales]
Andrew Henderson (moderator of synod, United Presbyterian Church), Edinburgh - will not nominate a director owning to their own foreign mission commitments
John Orr (Presbyterian Church in Ireland), Belfast - as above
R Simpson (Free Church of Scotland), Edinburgh - as above
Dr George Smith, Edinburgh - speaking to medical students and others about mission
William Wilkins, Manchester - resignation from LMS service; becoming agent for Religious Tract Society
Edward Hore (later Captain of John Williams), Hornsey [London]
James Hodgson, Manchester (Manchester and Salford auxiliary) - support Forward Movement appeal for 100 more missionaries
D W Simon, Edinburgh - students and the LMS
S R Scott, Dulwich [London] - resignation as an LMS director because disapproves expenditure beyond means
typed report on Lake Tanganyika mission including comments by Thompson [?Ralph Wardlaw Thompson], Alexander Carson and Robert Wright