Mission books, 1819-1880

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Series CN/M

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The mission books are fair copies of in-letters and associated documents made in London for the convenience of the Church Missionary Society's secretaries and committees. They include not only letters from missionaries, bishops and agents to the secretaries, but also copies of attached correspondence between missionaries, clergy, governors and public officials in New Zealand and Australia. There are also minutes of meetings of the Corresponding Committee in Sydney and meetings of missionaries, district committees and other bodies in New Zealand. Within these minutes there are often reports of individual missionaries. The mission books also contain copies of many journals kept by missionaries, but after 1848 they were no longer transcribed.

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