Silk cloth; rectangle of purple silk with fringed borders, with blue and white floating wefts on two side, and the other two sides bordered with narrow strips with geometric patterns in black and white silk. Knotted fringe along each short side.
A Handbook of foreign missions : containing an account of the principal Protestant missionary societies in Great Britain, with notices of those on the Continent and in America; also an apendix on Roman Catholic missions
Friends as missionaries: contemporary reports, newsletters and magazines
This blog post introduces some of the periodicals that document British Quakers’ activity in the foreign mission field from the second half of the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Mis…
26th May 2018 marked the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Friends Foreign Mission Association in 1868. This put overseas mission and relief work on a permanent footing fo…
Ten Years' Review of Mission Work in Madagascar. 1880-1890 : London Missionary Society, London Missionary Society , Richard Baron , Friends' foreign mission association
Book digitized by Google from the library of University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Sleigh ride to Russia : an account of the Quaker mission to St. Petersburg by Robert Charleton, Henry Pease and Joseph Sturge in 1854 to present an address to Czar Nicholas from Meeting for sufferings to try to avert the outbreak of the Crimean War [Free Account Required]
Collected by donor's brother-in-law, John Sims, a Quaker Missionary (Friend's [sic] Foreign Mission) mainly at Antanatteo [? Partly illegible], from about 64 years ago (1885 on).