Mission to Singapore. Treasury department. Correspondence rec'd by the Siamese mission (Volume 1), 1838-1841

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The bulk of this massive collection consists of letters written by secretaries of the Board to its missionaries and others; and letters received by the Board, largely from missionaries in the field. Also included are records of organizations associated with the Board and miscellaneous manuscripts, largely personal papers and photographs of individuals connected with the Board. The chief importance of the papers probably lies in the immense amount of information--social, political, and geographic, as well as religious--which they contain about those regions of the world in which the Board's missionaries operated., Established in 1810, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was a Christian missionary society that sent missionaries to foreign countries. This bound volume contains the letters received by the Siam (Thailand) mission between 1838 and 1841, including several copies of circulars issued by the Missionary Rooms of the ABCFM from 1837 to 1841. The letters are not arranged in chronological order.