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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 for the boarding school in Uduvil, the day schools, and the Bible women. Recurring topics include special funding for extensive reparations to the Uduvil Girls' School building; and the need for more frequent and more detailed reports from the mission to the Women's Board. Lawson notes that general reports are critical both for their funders and for their appropriations. Request by Lawson for information on the work of native women in the mission in order to highlight "the uplift of women in the field." Letters give a broad idea of how appropriations were requested, justified, and made, and highlight the difficulties of correspondance between the missions and their boards in the United States. Other women missionaries mentioned include: Mrs. Green, Minnie Hastings, Mrs. Ward and her sister Miss Bookwalter, and Mrs. Dickson.

Size and dimensions of original material: 1 file of 52 pages.

Condition of original material: 22 x 28.5 cm.