CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY ARCHIVE
Section VI: Missions to India
Part 4: South India Mission, 1834-1880 REEL 69
Catalogue to West Asia (Group 2) Missions Volume 3 South India: pp 6-29 C I 2 M 11: Mission Book, 1834-1835
The Original Papers were copied into Mission Books so that a legible copy was available for the use of the committee. Included are letters to and from missionaries and secretaries re mission business, missionary reports on their work and itineration, minutes of meetings and conferences. Each volume contains an index. Letters from Rev Henry Bake, Rev John Tucker, Rev J Peel, Rev C Winckler, Rev and Mrs Woodcock, Rev John Dewasagayam, Rev C Bailey, Rev C Rhenius, Rev P Schaffter, Rev C Cornelius, Rev E Dent; journals describing the missionary's work from Rev C Rhenius, Rev P Schaffter, Rev J Peet, Rev C Cornelius, Rev E Dent and others; minutes of the Madras Corresponding Committee; report of the Mayaveram Station by Rev J Tucker together with a list of the CMS Free Schools. REEL 70
C I 2 M 12: Mission Book, 1835-1836
Letters from Rev F Norton, Rev J Tucker and others; journals of Rev C Rhenius, Rev J J Muller, Rev W J Woodcock, Rev P P Schaffter, Rev B Schmid, Rev John Dewasagayam; reports on the Tinnevelly Schools by Rev J J Muller and Rev P P Schaffter, on the Cochin and Allepie Stations by Rev J Tucker, on the Cottayam Mission; minutes of the Madras Corresponding Committee. REEL 71
C I 2 M 13: Mission Book, 1836
Letters from Rev J Tucker to Rev C Rhenius, Rev J Peet and others; journals of Rev C Rhenius, Rev J J Muller, Rev J M Lechler, Rev W J Woodcock, Rev G Pettitt, Rev J Tucker, Rev J Dewasagayam, Rev E Dent, E Serjeant, John Ananthan, Rev F Norton; minutes of the Madras Corresponding Committee; report of the Cottayam Mission. REEL 72
C I 2 M 14: Mission Book, 1836-1838
Letters from Rev J Tucker, Rev W J Woodcock, Bishop of Madras, Rev G Pettitt, Rev C Rhenius, Rev J Peet; minutes of the Madras Corresponding Committee; petition of the Tinnevelly congregation to the Corresponding Committee; reports of Readers and others at Cottayam and on Mrs Baker's Female School at Cottayam. REEL 73
C I 2 M 15: Mission Book, 1838-1839
Letters from Rev J Tucker, the Cottayam missionaries, Rev G Pettitt, Mr P Batchelor; journals of Rev C Blackman, Rev E Dent, Rev H Baker, Rev J H Gray, Mr J Johnson; minutes of a meeting of the Cottayam missionaries and of the Madras Corresponding Committee; a report by Rev F H Appleyard on the Mayaveram Mission. REEL 74
C I 2 M 16: Mission Book, 1838-1840
Letters from Rev G Pettitt, Rev W F Humphrey, Rev S Ridsdale; Rev J Tucker's minutes on the Tinnevelly Mission together with letters to the Secretary in London and the Bishop of Madras; minutes of a meeting of the Madras Corresponding Committee, of a meeting of the residents of Masulipatam and of the meeting of the Tinnevelly missionaries; an account of the practice of Hook Swinging by Rev J H Elouis; report on Cottayam by Rev H Baker and a report on the Madras Institution; summary of the estimated receipts and disbursements for the Madras Mission for 1840. REEL 75
C I 2 M 17: Mission Book, 1840-1841
Letters from Rev S Hobbs, Rev J H Gray, Rev F Norton, the Bishop of Madras, Rev J Chapman, Rev J Dewasagayam, Rev C Blackman; minutes of a meeting of the missionaries at Palamcottah, of the Madras Corresponding Committee, of the Tinnevelly missionaries; half yearly report of the Palamcottah station of the Tinnevelly Mission; reports on the Northern District of the Tinnevelly Mission, the Dohnavar District, the Cottayam District, the Cochin Mission and the schools of the Palamcottah Mission. These reports include news on missionaries, catechists, schools, congregations, seminaries and societies. There is also a report on the Madras Institution and the Suvesashapuram district of the Tinnevelly Mission by Rev J J Muller regarding female education. Journals are included for Rev F Rogers, Rev J Thomas and Rev P P Schaffter. REEL 76
C I 2 M 18: Mission Book, 1841-1843
Letters from Major Browne, Rev H Cotterill, the Bishop of Madras, Rev B Bailey, Rev W H Fox, Rev J Tucker, Rev J Chapman, Rev J Tucker; half yearly report of the Palamcottah Station of the Tinnevelly Mission; minutes of the Madras Corresponding Committee. REEL 77
C I 2 M 19: Mission Book, 1843-1844
Letters from Rev J Tucker to the Bishop of Bombay and the Bishop of Madras, Rev J H Gray, Rev P P Schaffter, Rev J Peet to the Duvan of Travancore; minutes of the meeting of the Madras Corresponding Committee and of the Tinnevelly missionaries; a statistical return for the mission stations; Rev J H Gray's report on the Madras Institution. REEL 78
C I 2 M 20: Mission Book, 1844-1845
Letters from Rev J Tucker to the Bishop of Madras and missionaries, Rev G Rhenius, Rev J Peet to the Rajah of Travancore, Rev J Thomas; minutes of the meeting of the Madras Corresponding Committee and of the Tinnevelly missionaries; papers relating to the question of caste; journal of Rev J Tucker. REEL 79
C I 2 M 21: Mission Book, 1845-1847
Letters from Rev J Innes, Rev J Tucker, the Bishop of Madras, Rev J Peet, Rev P P Schaffter, Miss Caroline Giberne, Rev J G Barenbruck; minutes of the meeting of the Tinnevelly and Palamcottah missionaries and of the Madras Corresponding Committee; correspondence relating to the Caste Question; Rev J Chapman's report on the Cottayam College; statement of salaries, allowances, pensions etc granted to the missionaries and catechists; Rev J H Gray and Rev J Tucker's reports on the Madras Institution for 1845 and 1846 respectively. REEL 80
C I 2 M 22: Mission Book, 1847-1850
Letters from Rev J Barenbruck, Rev J Tucker, Rev J G Ragland, Rev B Bailey, Rev H Baker to Rev J G Ragland re the state of the mission at Aleppie at Travancore, Mr W Cruickshank, Rev E Dent, Rev Stephen Hobbs, Rev J Dewasagayam, Archdeacon Shortland; obituary of Peter the Instructing Catechist by J G Barenbruck; minutes of the Madras Corresponding Committee and of the meetings of the Travancore, Pannavadili and Palamcottah missionaries; notes on the Catechists' Widows Fund of Tinnevelly. REEL 81
C I 2 M 23: Mission Book, 1850-1853
Letters from J G Ragland, Miss Stansford, Rev N J Moody; minutes of the meeting of the Palamcottah missionaries, the Madras Corresponding Committee, the Conference of the Tinnevelly missionaries; petition of the British Mission in Travancore to the Rajah; Rev E Johnson's account of a visit to the Hill Araans; report on the Mavelicara Mission, Travancore by Rev J Peet. REEL 82
C I 2 M 24: Mission Book, 1853-1856
Letters from Rev J H Moody, Rev H Venn, Colonel Browne, Miss Caroline Giberne, Rev J Hawksworth, Rev J Dewasagayam, Rev E Johnson; minutes of the Madras Corresponding Committee and of the Travancore missionaries held at Pallamcottah; report on the Tinnevelly Mission by Rev J H Moody; Rev J G Ragland's report on an itineration in Tinnevelly. REEL 83
C I 2 M 25: Mission Book, 1856-1858
Letters from Rev P S Royston, Rev J G Ragland, Bishop of Madras, Rev H Venn, Miss Caroline Giberne, Rev J Peet, Rev J Dewasagayam, Rev W Knight, Rev P P Schaffter, Rev E Sargent , Rev J Pickford, Rev L Craddock, Colonel Browne; minutes of the Madras Corresponding Committee, of a meeting of the Travancore missionaries and also of the Madras Finance Sub Committee; proceedings of the first meeting of the University of Madras held at the College Hall, April 7 1857; Rev E Sargent's report on the examination of the Training Institution and his account of the conversion of a Brahmin. REEL 84
C I 2 M 26: Mission Book, 1858-1860
Letters from Rev F G Darling, Rev P S Royston, the Madras Secretaries, Rev F G Ragland, Rev E Sargent, Rev R H Vickers, the Bishop of Madras, the Bishop of Colombo, Rev J Hawksworth; minutes of the Madras Corresponding Committee, the Travancore Missionaries, the Tinnevelly missionaries and the Masulipatam missionaries; report of the Trichoor mission by A G Beuttler; list of catechists who visited the missions. REEL 85
C I 2 M 27: Mission Book, 1860-1862
Letters from Rev A Debb, Rev P S Royston, Rev F N Alexander, the Bishop of Madras, Rev J Dewasagayam; minutes of the Madras Corresponding Committee, the Masulipatam Missionaries, the Travancore and Tinnevelly missionaries together with the minutes of the first meeting of the Telegu missionaries; journal of Rev F N Alexander's visit to the Koi Mission; minutes of the Finance Committee. REEL 86
C I 2 M 28: Mission Book, 1868-1870
Letters from Rev O Mamen, Rev J Nee, the Travancore clergy to Rev P S Royston regarding an increase in salary, Rev J H Bishop to the Committee, Rev P S Royston, Rev John Sharp, Rev J M Speechley , Rev C C Fenn, the Bishop of Madras; minutes of the Madras Corresponding Committee, the Tinnevelly conference, the Madras Native Church council, the Travancore missionaries, the Telegu conference, the conference of CMS missionaries at Palamcottah, the Palamcottah Church Council; report of 15 candidates for the Tinnevelly Native Pastorate. REEL 87
C I 2 M 29: Mission Book, 1871-1872
Letters from Rev P S Royston, Mrs Andrews, Rev W P Schaffter, Rev David Fenn, Rev J Barton; minutes of the Madras Corresponding Committee, of the Telegu Church Missionary Conference, a conference held at Palamcottah plus the minutes of the Native Church Councils of Madras and Mengnanapuram; information regarding castes in India by Rev J Barton. REEL 88
C I 2 M 30: Mission Book, 1873-1874
Letters from Rev David Fenn, Rev J Barton, the Lay Secretary, the Bishop of Madras, Rev J Sharp; minutes of the Madras Corresponding Committee. REEL 89
C I 2 M 31: Mission Book, 1875-1876
Letters from Rev D Fenn, Rev N Gray, Rev J Barton, Rev Dr Sargent, Rev J David, the Bishop of Madras; minutes of the Madras Corresponding Committee, of the Tinnevelly Native Church Council, of the Telegu conference at Masulipalam, of the Pallavuram Native Church Council and of the Travancore and Tinnevelly CMS conferences; report on Rev Sholto Douglas' visit to Madras; report by A Subberoygudu on a visit to Amalpur; description by Rev E Sargent of the Prince of Wales' visit to Palamcottah in 1875; printed Annual Letters from missionaries and native catechists including Rev W Johnson, Rev Samuel Paul, Rev W P Schaffter, Rev J Cornelius, Rev J E Padfield, Rev D Stephen, Rev A James. REEL 90
C I 2 M 32: Mission Book, 1877
Letters from Rev R G MacDonald, Rev David Fenn, Rev W Gray, Madras Mission Secretary, Rev H Schaffter, the Bishop of Madras, Rev W Wright, Rev A Morgan, Rev John Sharp; letters from missionaries of the Tinnevelly and Telegu stations regarding the famine in 1877; minutes of the Madras Corresponding Committee and of the Finance Sub Committee; printed Annual Letters from missionaries and catechists including Mrs Vickers, Rev Henry Baker, Rev I Ephraim (Native Catechist), Rev Alfred Morgan. REEL 91
C I 2 M 33: Mission Book, 1878
Letters from Rev A F Painter, Rev W Gray, Rev J Thornton, Rev David Fenn, Rev R C MacDonald, the Bishop of Madras, Rev A H Arden; minutes of the Telegu missionaries' conference; printed Annual Letters from missionaries and catechists including Rev Henry Schaffter, Mrs Vickers, Rev D Daniel (Native Catechist), Rev W J Richards, Rev V Simeon (Native Catechist) REEL 92
C I 2 M 34: Mission Book, 1879-1880
Letters from Rev F N Alexander, the Bishop of Madras, Travancore missionaries to the Secretary in London, Rev W J Richards, Rev J Caley, Rev A H Arden, Rev W Clayton, Rev A W Poole, Mrs Vickers, Bishop E Sargent, the Bishop of Travancore and Cochin; minutes of the Nallur Native Church Council, of the Madras Corresponding Committee, report on the Telegu country by Rev A H Arden; Annual Letters from missionaries and catechists including Rev Hugh Horsley, Rev A H Lash, Rev V Simeon (Native), Rev W G Barker, Rev James Stone.
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