Letters from the Women's Board of Missions secretary Kate G. Lawson to Susan Howland in Uduvil, Ceylon. One letter from Howland to Lawson. The letters explain and formally lay out the yearly appropriations for the mission work in Ceylon, including salaries for the women missionaries and funding ...
Primarily letters to the American Ceylon Mission from secretaries of other organizations such as James L. Barton of the ABCFM, Kate G. Lawson of the Women's Board, and M.G. Brooks of the YMCA. Other senders include Rev. Enoch F. Bell and Rev. Dr. Henry Scudder. Recepients include Rev. John Bickn...
Letters primarily to and from South India (Kodaikanal, Palamcottah, etc.), primarily between Miss Agnes H. Morris and Rev. A.A. Ward, and between Ward and Carl W. Phelps, principal of the Kodaikkanal School. The letters pertain to the upkeep and rental of houses in Kodaikkanal over the summer mo...
Primarily letters to and from Rev. A.A. Ward, treasurer of the ACM, regarding the houses in Kodaikanal owned by the mission and rented out especially over the summer months to missionary families. Kodaikanal was a hill-station favored for its temperate climate (similar to English weather) though...
This fragment contains letters from Rev. Levi Spaulding (1791-1873) in Uduvil, sent to various recepients such as John W. Kingman, Brother Webb, Rev. Miron Winslow (1789-1864), and Rev. E.P. Hastings (1821-1890). One of the letters addressed to Winslow details 11 "Good Results" of the ACM before...
Mission letter for 1864 written by Rev. Levi Spaulding. Letter is split into categories and contains a detailed index. Include: tabular view of the ACM's ten churchesl updates on the Sabbath schoolsl statistics on native contributions to mission objects like churches, schools, pastors, etc.; inf...
Includes two items bound together with string: (1) blue and brown paper manuscript notebook fragment including a draft and final copy of the Annual Report of the American Ceylon Mission for 1871 (signed by Rev. William E. DeReimer and Samuel F. Green), and one version of the Report for 1872. Inc...
Reports for the year 1873: (1) average attendance of all congretations, native assistants, and statistical reports for Batticotta, Caradive, Valany, Changany, Panditeripo, Tillippaly, Udupitty, Chavagacherry, Oodooville, Alavetty, Maneppay and Navaly. (2) Full station, church, and/or parish repo...
Includes, in order, Report of Auditors upon Treasury Accounts for the year 1874; the Annual Report of the church at Alavetty for the year 1875; Mark upon the women of Oodooville for 1875; Report for Oodooville for ’75; Report of the Church at Oodooville for the year 1875; Report of Batticotta St...
Includes: (a) 'Historical Sketch of the American Ceylon Mission, Jaffna, 1858-1879.' Printed report divided into the following sections: Christians, Education, Boarding Schools, Methods of Work, Printing, and a list of the missionaries and their wives along with the dates they worked in Jaffna; ...