Copy of a Letter by the Revd. Dr. J. Stevenson, Bombay (Mumbai), 14 May 1851

'Copy of a Letter addressed to Col. Sykes by the Revd. Dr. J. Stevenson on an Inscription from the Nana Ghat, Bombay (Mumbai), 14 May 1851' in which he writes that the Cave Com. of the Royal Asiatic Society has acquired the services of a young man, Mr Brett, who has a taste for the study of languages and makes very good sketches. He is engaged in making exact facsimiles of all the Western India Inscriptions. He also writes that his Society has agreed to reprint the three volumes of the Transactions of the Bombay Literary Society. In the third volume, he writes, is an inscription from the Nana Ghat which he had visited recently and so wants to add to what was already known.

John Stevenson was born in Alton Campsie, Stirlingshire, on 3 November 1798 He trained as a minister becoming a missionary in India and an Indologist. After ordination in 1823 he was sent by the Scottish Missionary Society to their new Bombay Mission, and was a Missionary in Pune until appointed, in 1834, as Chaplain of the East India Company in Bombay, as Senior Chaplain in 1841, and Minister of St. Andrews. He resigned in 1854 and returned to Britain becoming Parish Minister of Ladykirk in Berwickshire from 1855-58.

John Stevenson was born in Alton Campsie, Stirlingshire, on 3 November 1798 He trained as a minister becoming a missionary in India and an Indologist. After ordination in 1823 he was sent by the Scottish Missionary Society to their new Bombay Mission, and was a Missionary in Pune until appointed, in 1834, as Chaplain of the East India Company in Bombay, as Senior Chaplain in 1841, and Minister of St. Andrews. He resigned in 1854 and returned to Britain becoming Parish Minister of Ladykirk in Berwickshire from 1855-58.

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