"[No title] [Lithographed information for missionaries in India 1845-52 from C.G. Barth in Calw in German, and C. Young in Islington English]."

Collection of bound and duplicated (lithographed) letters 1845-1852. Original cover lost, no title. Texts written in Calw and London, duplicated in Mangalore, information for serving missionaries in India. Foolscap format (and most papers in the document are foolscap). No consecutive page numbers. The document is c.2.3cm thick. Condition: really rather good, considering the technique, the age, and the neglect this file must have suffered over the decades. The document begins with a series of 2-3 page circulars sent out in German by Christian Gottlob Barth in Calw (in cases where an addressee is visible, these copies were being sent to Samuel Hebich). The Barth circulars end in 1852. In this document they are followed by circulars in the same format and technique written in English by C. Young of Islington, who was closely connected with CMS. These also begin in 1845, and end with Young’s circular No. 63 dated 1852. There is an indication on the circular for 3rd June 1851 that the documents were being turned into circulars in Mangalore. And the circular by Mr Young dated 8th Sep. 1846 explains that he is being asked to supplement Barth’s letters in this way. Young’s letters are often addressed to Mögling. The circular of 7th Dec. 1847 has a PS which informs the readers (with a dateline Mangalore 26. Jan. 1848) that if they wish to continue receiving them, they will have to pay..... The general idea of both Barth and Young seems to have been to keep the missionaries (in India, presumably) au fait with general, and especially personal, news from the centres of world mission.

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