James Long letters to the secretaries of the Church Missionary Society, London [microform], 1838-1876.

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James Long letters to the secretaries of the Church Missionary Society, London [microform], 1838-1876.

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The collection contains Rev. Long's manuscript letters to the Church Missionary Society (CMS) during his almost forty years as a missionary/educator in Calcutta, India. He writes to secretaries Dandeson Coates, E.B. Stewart, and Henry Venn about the difficulty in dealing with religious ideas of Hindus and Muslims, the education of girls, and his 1861 imprisonment for publishing the translation of the Nil Durlpan that upset the Landholders and Commercial Association of British India engaged in the indigo industry. In the 1860s and 1870s, Long left India twice for his health, and writes letters to the CMS from Paris, Switzerland, Constantinople, Russia, and Boston. Also includes his annual reports and extracts of his journals; printed pamphlets supporting him during his imprisonment; a printed pamphlet containing his address at the CMS meeting, 1856, "Peasant degradation as obstacle to gospel propagation;" a clipping from a newspaper about how village schools in Bengal are financed; and William S. Mallett's annual letter from his mission, 1872.

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Stewart, E. B.

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Church Missionary Society.

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The Church Missionary Society was founded in 1799 by a small group of laymen and clergy of the Church of England. It was originally named the Society for Missions to Africa and the East. Its purpose was to enable the Church to send missionaries to Africa and other heathen areas. Henry M. Stanley, following his discovery of the missionary explorer, David Livingstone, was instrumental in opening the Uganda Mission. His famous letter, published in the Daily Telegraph in 1875, prompted a contributio...

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Coates, Dandeson

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