[Autograph letter, signed, from John Wilson, Secret…]

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  • Reference
    • GB 247 MS Gen 1437/3
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1826
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 1 folded sheet. 4p. 23 cm. Red seal.

Scope and Content

Autograph letter, signed, from John Wilson, Secretary, to David Buchan Dowie [sic - i.e. Douie], Secretary to the Association of Theological Students, Garnet Hill, Glasgow. 18 St John Street, Edinburgh, 17th March. 1826.
Report of general meeting of Edinburgh Association at which Wilson's proposal was well received [see MS Gen 1437/2]. John James Bonar, Vice-President, read paper on propagation of Christianity in British India, refuting Abbé Dubois. Subscriptions of theological students to be divided between Scottish Missionary Society (1/3), General Assembly's fund for increasing education and religious instruction (1/3), London Missionary Society (1/6), missions of United Brethren (1/6). No report published this year.

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