Guide to the Records of the London Missionary Society (as filmed by the AJCP), 1796-1939

Summary

Collection number:

M1-M116, M608-M670

Creator:

London Missionary Society

Extent:

865 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: Reports, 1883-1898, Papua reports, 1827-1906, Records of the London Missionary Society, School of Oriental and African Studies (AJCP ref: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1126174847/findingaid#nla-obj-1642889066)

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

As well as papers concerned with the religious activities of the missionaries, much of the material in this collection includes writings, and incidental observations, on exploration, anthropology, linguistics, trade and economics, education, publishing, agriculture and social conditions. Political events closely affected the mission stations and are documented in the Society's records, including the proclamation of a British Protectorate in eastern New Guinea in 1884.

Home Office records: M613-M629: Board minutes 1795-1918; M630-M632; Committee minutes 1835-1918; M634-M637; Home Office letters 1795-1876 and miscellaneous papers; M69-M70, M636-M637: papers, references, examination questions and answers of candidates seeking appointment 1796-1880; M71: missionary lectures 1817, 1842-1852; M670: register of missionaries 1796-1923, with annotations to 1965. Overseas missions:a) Australia, M11: journals 1800-1842 kept by W. Shelley, R. Hassall, L.E. Threlkeld and R.C. Morgan; M11, M72-M90, M638-M640: letters 1798-1919 including reports on voyages of the mission ship John Williams.

South Seas (Pacific Islands), M1-M10: journals 1796-1899 kept by missionaries, seamen and native teachers; M15-M17, M644-M645: reports 1798-1919; M18-M68, M102-M116, M632-M634, M640-M644: letters 1796-1919, most written from Australia and many by Rev. Samuel Marsden, dealing with the New Zealand and South Seas missions; M645-M660: miscellaneous and personal documents, pictorial material and diaries.

Papua, M11: journals 1872-1901; M12, M611: reports 1882-1919; M91-101, M608-611: letters 1872-1919; M612-613, M659-660: miscellaneous papers and pictorial material, including portraits of South Seas missionaries.

Ultra Ganges, M667-669: outgoing letters 1822-54, and journals; M660-662: Malacca 1815-59; M662-664: Penang 1805-69; M664-665; Java (Batavia) 1814-43; M665: Rangoon 1809-10 and Amboyna 1814-43; M666-667: Singapore 1819-84.

Personal papers and manuscripts. M13: manuscript entitled 'History of the Tahitian Mission' by John Davies, with annotations by Henry Nott (c.1830); M14: manuscript entitled 'A Brief History of the South Sea Mission' by Joseph Mullens (1878); M71: biographical notes on Mrs Alex Chisholm 1842-52; M640: letters of Rev. George J. Williams 1916-19; M652-656: letters, diaries and papers of Rev. James E. Newell 1879-1908; M657-659: papers, many of them typescript, notes and diaries of Rev. John H. Holmes 1893-1915; M659: papers of Rev. Edwin Pryce-Jones 1899-1919, autobiography of Thomas Blossom, c.1847, and recollections of Samuel J. Whitmee; M660: journal 1866-67 of Lillie Saville, manuscript by Robert Thomson 'History of Tahiti' (1857); M668-669: journals kept by missionaries at the Ultra Ganges stations, including Thomas Beighton and John Ince at Penang 1822-23, W.H. Medhurst at Batavia 1825-26, and others.

Related

Existence and Location of Copies:

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn593638] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

School of Oriental and African Studies Library, University of London, Thornhaugh St, London. Collection is held on indefinite loan to SOAS from the Council for World Mission.

Collection Reference: CWM/LMS. For further information see London Missionary Society at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. [https://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/collections/missionary-collections]

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London..

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: Reports, 1883-1898, Papua reports, 1827-1906, Records of the London Missionary Society, School of Oriental and African Studies (AJCP ref: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1126174847/findingaid#nla-obj-1642889066)

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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