"Papers from the Field Secretary’s office 1895-1900"

A file constructed in the style of C-5-4.7, the block of papers between the covers at the spine 5 cm thick. The covers are lost. Severe damage of different types: (a) there are many tissue-paper copies of MS letters in non-standardised sizes, on some of which the ink is very faint indeed; (b) some of the pages were evidently too wide for the covers, so their outer margins are damaged, and indeed many letters are torn; (c) there is moderate insect/worm damage. The rear alphabetical index is intact, though it appears only to refer to perhaps the first 1 cm of the file. Some documents have been lost at the front of the file. The file was obviously generated in the General-Präses (Field Secretary’s) office, from late 1895-early 1900. It contains almost exclusively correspondence from the Headquarters of the Mission, and of the Mission Trading Company (i.e. it does not really belong in C-5-5). Probably continued in C-5-5.8d

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1900

1895-1900

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