Letter

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 PLP 28/21/2
  • Former Reference
      GB 135 PLP 28/21/2
  • Dates of Creation
      18 Feb 1813
  • Physical Description
      1 item

Scope and Content

Copy letter from Leeds, Yorkshire, to the Revd [William] Ault in Congleton, Cheshire, re the proposed mission to Ceylon which Coke hopes Ault will join. Several subscribers have promised to support the venture with C5 per annum for seven years.

Coke has visited Dr Buchanan but only had the opportunity to discuss the West Indies.

[Publication record: William Harvard, Narrative of the establishment and progress of the mission to Ceylon and India (London, 1823), 19ff.]