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Letters of William Crichton Fyfe, Free Church missionary in Calcutta.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13758
Scope and Contents
Three letters of William Crichton Fyfe, Free Church of Scotland missionary in Calcutta, to his parents, 1844.The letters describe Fyfe`s early experiences in India, where he was employed in education. They cover subjects such as his daily life and work, an extended period of illness, and arrangements for his salary in the aftermath of the Disruption of 1843. During this period, although most missionaries elected to join the Free Church of Scotland, ownership of much overseas...
Dates:
1844.
Minute books, mostly, of various boards, committees and associations subsumed by the Overseas Council of the Church of Scotland.
Series
Identifier: Dep.298
Scope and Contents
Minute books, with some reports, of the Foreign, Jewish, Colonial and Continental Mission Committees of the:
Church of Scotland, 1834-1929;
United Secession Church, 1840-1847;
United Presbyterian Church, 1847-1900;
Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1900;
United Free Church of Scotland, 1900-1929; and,
re-united Church of Scotland, 1929-1964.
Also included are minutes of some other committees and sub-committees.
Dates:
1834-1964.
Minutes, journals, newsletters, visitors’ books, correspondence, photographs and printed books of St Colm’s College; with the papers of Effie Gray, a former student and teacher at the College.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13301/1-331
Scope and Contents
Papers of St Colm`s College, 1839-2010, including minutes, journals, newsletters, visitors` books, correspondence, photographs and printed books.The history of the college is complex, and it has undergone a number of name changes. The Women`s Missionary Institute of the Free Church of Scotland began in Edinburgh in 1894. Increasing expansion of student numbers saw a larger purpose-built institution commissioned at 23 Inverleith Terrace, Edinburgh. Although supported by what was...
Dates:
1839-2010.
Photographic slides relating to Calabar and Mary Slessor
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13192
Scope and Contents
5 photographic slides, c.1950s-1960s, of Mr J. D. Brown, medical missionary in Calabar, 1957-1964.The images include a memorial for Mary Slessor, Free Church Missionary, in Use near Itu, where she spent the last months of her life, and her grave in Calabar. There is also an image of the Doctor`s house at the Mary Slessor Hospital in Itu. This was where Slessor had reportedly housed the twins she had rescued in the early part of the 20th century. Mr Brown worked as a medical...
Dates:
1957-1964.