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...

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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.

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...

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...