includes letters from:
Henry Townley, Calcutta [Kolkata] - need for more missionaries, printer and press; finance of school and Union Chapel; death of Robert May; plan of Calcutta School Society; sending idols to England for LMS museum
James Keith, Calcutta - formation of Bengal auxiliary missionary society [BAMS]; epidemic, Hindu beliefs thereon
John Pearson, Chinsurah - work generally; BAMS; government ask him to take charge of Dutch Church; National [Anglican] school founded in Calcutta
joint letter by Henry Townley and James Keith, Calcutta - finance of BAMS; death of Robert May
Mackintosh & Co, Calcutta - become agents for LMS
Samuel Trawin, Cape Town