Letter from Angela Trindade, Bombay [Mumbai], India, to Rev Edgar W Thompson, Didcot, Berks [Oxfordshire]

This material is held atSchool of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Archives, University of London

  • Reference
    • GB 102 MMSL MSS/011
  • Dates of Creation
    • 31 Dec 1953
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 1 sheet

Scope and Content

Thanks him for his letter and hopes the portrait is liked (a copy of a missionary portrait [?John Wesley] by [Frank Owen] Salisbury). Thoughts on the portrait and her religious convictions as a Roman Catholic. Her father's [Antonio Xavier Trindade] work as an artist. Comments on the racial prejudice she saw in the United States when she lived there for three years. Sees her art as part of her Christian faith.

Administrative / Biographical History

Ms Angela Trindade (1909-1980), artist, India.

Rev Edgar Wesley Thompson (1871-1963) served as a Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society missionary in their Mysore District of India from 1894 until 1919 and as a general secretary of the WMMS from 1919 until 1934.

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