South India (Canarese),1840

Scope and Content

includes letters from:

John Reid, Bellary - Humpee [Hampi] festival; Christiana's autobiography

William Thompson on board steamship Thomas Grenville

William Beynon, Belgaum - report

Benjamin Rice, Bangalore

Gilbert Turnbull, Ootacamund [Udagamandalam]

John Hands (secretary), Bangalore - committee papers; ordination of J A Regel; government grant of land at Mysore for mission; more missionaries wanted

J A Regel, Bangalore - hopes to send daughter to School for Daughters of Missionaries, Walthamstow

James Sewell, Bangalore - great success of girls school; conversations with Hindus; report

Edmund Crisp, Bangalore - start of seminary

Joseph Taylor, Bellary - report of press etc

Colin Campbell, Mysore - report

joint Bangalore returns from Edmund Crisp and James Sewell

Access Information

Open

Other Finding Aids

Detailed list for South India Incoming Correspondence: Canarese, 1817-1857 (list F3), available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room, SOAS Library.

Archivist's Note

Catalogued