This collection contains letters and supplementary material relating to SPG missionaries who worked in South Africa during the period 1819–1900. These documents contain a wealth of information regarding the progress of the mission, financial concerns, and movements of people.

Feb 5, 2002 · Thus, letters by Thomas Haweis, Matthew Wilks, Joseph Hardcastle and George Burder appear with letters from Dr Johannes Vanderkemp, the pioneer of the South African mission. From 1800 to 1819 letters also come from Maglett Smith, a woman who took care of the Society’s concerns in Cape Town and became known to the missionaries as 'Mother Smith'.

The result gives a wide overview of letters written by the succession of LMS missionaries who worked in (and some who visited or passed through) the South African mission stations.

More of the history of this party can be found in the book Letters of the American Missionaries, 1835-1838, edited by D. J. Kotze and published by The Van Riebeeck Society of Capetown, South Africa in 1950. The letter that follows was written by Mary Jane to her uncle, Michael Gretter, in Richmond, Virginia.

The ‘missions and missionaries’ literature includes the publications of the main missionary societies and a large array of ‘narratives,’ journals and other writings by the missionaries who worked for them, as well as a very large number of academic discussions, including some in-depth investigations of particular mission societies ...

John Piper wrote: “the passion of a missionary – as distinct from that of an evangelist – is to plant a worshipping community of Christians in a people group who had no access to the Gospel because of language or cultural barriers”.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (1857) is David Livingstone’s major literary accomplishment. It serves as the primary public statement of both his personal objectives as a missionary and explorer and his theories about the future prospects of south-central Africa.

According to Dr H H Vedder (1876 -1972), missionary, linguist, author, and later senator of South West Africa, it was the missionaries who unlocked the territory and br ought it to the attention of the world.

Jan 23, 2023 · Includes papers of the Ladies' Society for Female Education in India and Africa, with letterbooks concerning missionary activity in South Africa (1878-1904) and Calabar (Nigeria) (1895-1904).

The writings in this book were from or about John G. Lake during his time as a Missionary to South Africa from 1908 until 1913. We have also included the transcripts of Dr. Lake’s personal diary dating from 1908 until 1911.