Surviving incoming correspondence of the Colonial, Continental and Jewish Mission Committees of the Free Church of Scotland.
Scope and Contents
Apart from one volume from Australia and New Zealand in the 1850s (MS.21329), all date from approximately 1892 to 1900 and represent the correspondence of the single secretary of the three Committees, the Reverend Dr George Milne Rae, from his taking office to immediately prior to the union of the majority of the Free Church with the United Presbyterian Church in November, 1900. They were discovered in 1968 behind the false back of a cupboard in a classroom in the Free Church College, Edinburgh.
Dates
- Creation: 1851-1854, 1891-1900.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
74 Volumes ; All volumes contain letters of various sizes, folio and under.
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Arrangement
The order of items within and between files has in general not been disturbed. There are a few errors of arrangement, some of which have been noted on the letters.
The papers are arranged as follows:
MSS.21329-21353. Colonial Committee.
MSS.21354-21366. Continental Committee.
MSS.21367-21393. Jewish Mission Committee.
MSS.21394-21397. Miscellaneous.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Deposited, by the Finance Law and Advisory Committee of the Free Church of Scotland, through the good offices of Professor Alan Harman and the Scottish institute of Missionary Studies.
Separated Materials
For a few large documents see Ch.16839-16850.
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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