Correspondence relating to missionary and education work

File comprises 28 manuscript letters. The majority are dated between 1820 and 1922, with two accompanying undated letters.

The correspondence includes material written to the Reverend J. Townsend, concerning the raising of funds for missionary and anti-slavery work. The correspondence includes a letter from Henry Venn, of the Church Missionary Society, concerning proposed meeting engagements in the West of England for the Reverend Samuel Crowther.

Later correspondence includes a letter concerning the Glamorgan Education Committee.

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Presented, November 2019

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Papers arranged and described by Margaret Roper, February 2020, in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; and in-house cataloguing guidelines.

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The letters were presented by Reverend Leslie G. H. Craske, who had received the material from his brother who lived in the Welsh National Park. The brother had received the material from his 'odd jobs man' who had previously been employed by an antiques dealer in Abergavenny. Following the death of the antiques dealer, the 'odd jobs man' was given this material.