File RAS GOV7/35 - Copy of a Letter by the Revd. Dr. J. Stevenson, Bombay (Mumbai), 14 May 1851

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GB 891 RAS GOV7-RAS GOV7/35

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

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  • 14th May 1851 (Creation)

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1.5 pages handwritten

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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,read more

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'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, Mrread more

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  • English

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