Correspondence [manuscript]. 1880.

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Correspondence [manuscript]. 1880.

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Three letters written to the Reverend Shirley Baker discussing church matters and the treatment of Baker by the Missionary Committee in Sydney in 1879. Two letters (one dated 1 Dec. 1880) are by Jabez B. Watkin, president of the Free Church of Tonga, and one by Fred Langham, a Methodist missionary writing from Bau in Fiji (dated 14 June 1880).

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Australasian Wesleyan-Methodist Missionary Society

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Watkin, Jabez B.

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Baker, S. W. (Shirley Waldemar), 1836-1903.

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Missionary and Premier of Tonga. Born in London, Baker arrived in Melbourne as a stowaway in 1852. In 1860 he was ordained as a Wesleyan minister and sent to Tonga, where he became chief adviser to King George Tupou, founder of the Tongan kingdom. Baker was recalled in 1879 by a missionary committee for unorthodox fundraising methods. From the description of Correspondence [manuscript]. 1880. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 222782381 The Reverend Shir...

Langham, Frederick, 1833-1903

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