[Missionaries]. [India]

[Three Manuscript Letters from Missionaries in India]

Beawar, Rajasthan: 1880-1881. Three letters, totaling [12]pp. Old folds with a few minor separations. Some toning. Good plus. Item #5494

A group of three interesting letters that reflect the work of Scottish missonary Williamson Shoolbred and local convert Chaukas Ram in Beawar, Rajasthan. Shoolbred was sent to India in 1858 by the Mission Board of the United Churches of Scotland, and opened a school in Beawar in early 1860.The yearly letters, each two pages in Hindi, are from Ram, who became Shoolbred's fellow teacher, and are both translated into English by Shoolbred on the following two pages of the bifolium. Ram's letters from 1880 and 1881 report on his experience converting to Christianity, discuss his teaching at the school, detail his life in Rajasthan, talks about the hardships of rural farming, etc., and are addressed to the teachers and children of the Sydney Place Sabbath School in Glasgow. Shoolbred's standalone letter, dated November 28, 1881, is addressed to the superintendent at the school, and offers more detail about their conversion efforts and encourages more responses from the children to Ram's letters. With great details on this otherwise little known missionary outpost in western India.

Price: $750.00