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London Missionary Society in Siberia

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 380624

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: London Missionary Society in Siberia

Date(s): 1828

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): LMS | London Missionary Society

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The first mission of the London Missionary Society to Siberia was begun in 1818. Missionaries itinerated and evangelised among the nomadic inhabitants. Edward Stallybrass (c1793-1884) and William Swan (1791-1866) served there until the mission was suppressed by the Russian government in 1840, and the missionaries returned to Britain in 1841.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Photocopies of three letters, 1828, concerning the financial affairs of the London Missionary Society mission in Siberia.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Database.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to SOAS in 1984 following the sale of the original letters at auction.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Sold at auction before 1984.

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of the London Missionary Society documenting its mission to Siberia, including correspondence and journals of individual missionaries (Ref: CWM/LMS Russia), and family letters of Edward Stallybrass, missionary to Siberia, and his wife Charlotte (Ref: CWM/LMS Europe Personal Box 1).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Source: Richard Lovett, The History of the London Missionary Society 1795-1895 (1899), vol ii, pp 585-600.