Letter from Frederick Lewis to the Secretaries of the Wesleyan Missionary Community, Hatton Garden, London, 2 July 1836

MLMSS 10152

fonds

2 July 1836

9616389

0.01 metres of textual material - manuscript

Reverend Frederick Lewis (1809-1863) was a Wesleyan missionary and minister who was active in the spread of Methodism in New South Wales and instrumental in establishing Bathurst’s first Wesleyan Methodist chapel in 1837. Born in Cardiff in 1809, Lewis arrived in Australia in 1836 and remained here until 1855, mostly in the Bathurst and Hunter regions of New South Wales. He died on 12 Mar 1863 in Islington, London.
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Library correspondence file

A handwritten letter on wove paper with a red wax seal and postal stamps, from the Reverend Frederick Lewis, Bathurst, to the Secretaries of the Wesleyan Missionary Community, London, 2 July 1836. In the letter, Lewis describes the progress of Wesleyan Methodism in Bathurst and the Hunter region of New South Wales in the first half of the nineteenth century interspersed with descriptions of the people and places of Bathurst.

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