- Church World Missions Archive (hereafter CWM), School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, I South Africa incoming, Box 7, Folder 2, Jacket C, 12–22 Aug. 1817, ‘A Copy of the Original Minutes of the Missionary Deputies Held in the Orphan House, Cape of Good Hope, statement of George Thorn, 49
- Saunders , C. ‘James Read: Towards a Reassessment’, in University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, The Societies of Southern Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Collected Seminar Papers, 21, 7 (1975-1976), 19
- Ibid.
- Elbourne , E. 1992 . ‘A Question of Identity: Evangelical Culture and Khoisan Politics in the Early Nineteenth Century Eastern Cape’, in University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies . The Societies of Southern Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Collected Seminar Papers, 44 , 18 : 21
- Ibid.
- Stuart , D. 1992 . ‘The “Wicked Christians” and the “Children of the Mist”: Missionary and Khoi Interactions at the Cape in the Early Nineteenth Century’, in University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies . Societies in Southern Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Collected Seminar Papers , 18 : 2
- CWM, 1, 3B, London, letter from J. Eyre to J. Van der Kemp, 10 May 1800
- CWM, 1, 4C, Graaf Reinet, letter from J. Van der Kemp to London Society, 29 July 1801
- Transactions of the London Missionary Society (1803–1806), vol. 2, ‘General Account of the Various Missionary Stations in South Africa Extracted from the Last Annual Report of the Directors of the LMS’ (May 1803), 55
- CWM, 1, 4E, Graaf Reinet, letter from Van der Kemp to Governor Dundas, Cape of Good Hope, 11 Nov. 1801
- Transactions, vol. 1 (1801), ‘Transactions of Dr Van der Kemp in the Year 1801 Journey to Caffraland’, 489, and ‘Letter from James Read, at Botha's Farm near Algoa Bay, 18 Mar. 1802’, 503
- Ibid., Read letter
- Transactions, vol. 2 (1803–1806), ‘Extracts from the Journals of Dr Van der Kemp and Mr Read, written 31 Mar. 1803’, 87
- Transactions, vol. 2, ‘Annual Report of the Missionaries at Bethelsdorp, South Africa, for the year 1803, from the Missionaries Van der Kemp and Read’, 158
- Elbourne , E. 1991 . 201 ‘“To Colonize the Mind”: Evangelical Missionaries in Britain and the Eastern Cape’ (PhD thesis, Oxford University
- Philip , J. The Memoirs of Mrs Matilda Smith, Late of Cape of Good Hope (London, 1824), 115. As this collection of her writings was edited by John Philip in 1822, any possible direct references to the nature of the temptations, as well as acknowledgement that the correspondence was directed to James Read, is piously edited out. However, Philip does claim that he obtained his sources from ‘one well acquainted with the subject, as he was amongst the brethren at Bethelsdorp during the greater part of the residence of Mrs Smith, and had previously enjoyed much of her friendship and correspondence’. The correspondent was first at Graaf Reinet and then Bethelsdorp, making Read the only person still living to fit that description. Further, several additional sources confirm that Read was like a son to the very pious and energetic Mrs Smith who took over the running of Bethelsdorp briefly when British subjects were exiled by the Batavian government
- Transactions, vol. 2, ‘1803 Annual Report of Bethelsdorp’, 166
- CWM, 7, 2C, London, letter from J. Campbell to LMS Directors, 6 Aug. 1817
- Elboume . ‘To Colonize the Mind’, 201
- Kruger , B. 1966 . The Pear Tree Blossoms: A History of the Moravian Mission Stations 1737–1869 98 Genadendal Cape Archives (hereafter CA), CO 559(4), List of adult and infant baptisms at Bethelsdorp. Elizabeth also had a less exemplary brother who was executed for deserting the Cape Corp in 1804, according to Bernhard Kruger: see
- Philip . Memoirs 85
- Ibid, 86
- Transactions, vol. 3 (1807–1812), ‘Extracts from the Annual Report of the Missionaries at Bethelsdorp, from January 1, 1806 to January 1, 1807’, 154
- Transactions, vol. 3, ‘Extract of a Letter from Mr Read, Bethelsdorp, 30 Aug. 1808’, 205
- Theal , G. M. 1901 . Records of the Cape Colony from October 1812 to April 1814 vol. 9, Printed for the Government of the Cape Colony (London, See ‘Report of the Commission of Circuit for the Districts of Graaf-Reinet, Uitenhage and George’, 18 Jan. 1813, 54–128;and ‘Report of Mr G. Beelaerts van Blokland to Henry Alexander, Esq.’, 10 Feb. 1814, 328–49
- Theal . Records of the Cape Colony vol. 9, ‘Report of Commission’, 74
- Theal, Records of the Cape Colony, vol. 9, Cape of Good Hope, letter from Sir John Cradock to Lord Bathurst, 11 Aug. 1813, 212
- Theal, Records of the Cape Colony, vol. 9, letter from Cradock to Bathurst, 2 Oct. 1813, 245;and letter from Cradock to Bathurst, 30 Mar. 1814, 451–2
- Transactions, vol. 3, ‘Extracts, letter from Read at Bethelsdorp’, 2 Aug. 1806, 10
- Transactions, vol. 3, ‘Extract of a Letter from Brother Read, Containing a Very Interesting Account of his Journey to the Caffres’, no date, in collection of 1810 documents, 303
- Transactions, vol. 3, ‘Extract of a Letter from Dr Van der Kemp, 6 Nov. 1809’, 249
- Transactions, vol. 3, ‘Extract of a Letter, Bethelsdorp, 1 Nov. 1804’, 245;‘Extract of a Letter from Dr Van der Kemp, 6 Nov. 1804’, 249;‘Annual Report of Bethelsdorp, 1809’, 297
- Ibid., ‘Annual Report’, 296
- Elbourne . ‘Question of Identity’, 20–1
- Transactions, vol. 3, ‘Extracts of Letters, Bethelsdorp, Dr Van der Kemp to the Directors, 31 Jan. 1807’, 150–1
- Ibid, 147
- Transactions, vol. 4 (1813–1818), ‘Copy of a Letter from Mr Read to his Excellency Sir John Cradock, the Governor, Giving an Account of the Origin and Present State of Bethelsdorp’, 35
- Ibid., ‘Annual Report of the Missionary Institution at Bethelsdorp, 1812’, 21–5
- Campbell , J. Travels in South Africa Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society (London, 1815)
- Theal . Records of the Cape Colony vol. 9, letter from Cradock to Bathurst, 5 Apr. 1814, 461
- Transactions, vol. 4, ‘Extracts of Account of Mr Campbell's Narrative of his Journey to Bethelsdorp’, 52–3
- Ibid., ‘Letter from the Rev Mr Campbell to the Rev Mr Tracy’, 20 Nov. 1813, 60–1
- Ibid
- Ibid.
- Campbell . Travels 203, 212
- Ibid., 214
- Ibid., 453, 474
- Ibid, 408
- Transactions, vol. 4, ‘Extract of a Letter from Mr Anderson, Griqua Town (formerly called Klaar Water) South Africa, Giving an Account of the Settlement for the Year 1813’, 164–5
- Transactions, vol, 4, ‘Extract of a Letter from Mr Read to Mr Campbell, Bethelsdorp, 10 Oct. 1814’, 191
- Ibid., ‘Extracts from Mr Pacalt's Journal from the End of 1813 to the End of 1814, at Hooge Kraal, in the Hottentot Country’, 172
- Ibid., ‘Extract of a Letter from Mr Read, Bethelsdorp, 6 Mar. 1815’, 171
- Ibid., ‘Extracts of a Letter from Mr Read, Bethelsdorp, 20 July 1814’, 182
- Ibid., 189
- Ibid., ‘Extract of a Letter from Mr Read to Mr Campbell, Bethelsdorp, 10 Oct. 1814’, 187–9
- Ibid., ‘Extracts from the Journal of the Missionaries at Bethelsdorp, 1814’, 188
- Ibid.
- CWM, 7, 4D, Theopolis, letter from G. Barker to G. Burder, 28 May 1818
- CWM, 8, 2B, New Lattakoo, letter from J. Read to LMS, 12 July 1820
- Ibid.
- CWM, 7, 3C, Bethelsdorp, letter from G. Messerto LMS Directors, 26 Dec. 1817
- CWM, 7, 4D, Theopolis, letter from G. Barker to G Burder, LMS, 28 May 1818
- Ibid.
- Elbourne, ‘To Colonise the Mind’, 201
- CWM, 7, 4D, Theopolis, letter from G. Barker to G. Burder, LMS, 28 May 1818
- Ibid.
- CWM, 7, 3C, New Lattakoo letter from J. Read to LMS, 31 Dec. 1817;and CWM, 8, 1A, New Lattakoo accounts sent from J. Read to LMS Directors, Apr. 1819
- CA, CO 2606, Graaf Reinet, letter from Landdrost Andries Stockenstrom to Deputy Colonial Secretary, 17 Dec. 1816
- CWM, 7, 2C, letter from J. Campbell to Directors, 6 Aug. 1817
- CA, CO 559(4), baptismal records;and CWM, 14, 4B, Bethelsdorp, letter from J. Read Jr to LMS, 12 June 1835, which gives information about the death of his fourth sister, Sarah, whose date of birth was 20 May 1818
- CWM, 8, 2B, J. Read and J. Campbell, ‘A Short Account of the Commencement Progress and Present State of the Mission at New Lattakoo with Some Remarks’, 12 July 1820
- CWM, 6, 4B, Grace Hill, Brother Smith to Directors, 17 Sep. 1816, translated from the Dutch by Mr Messer in Bethelsdorp
- CWM, 8, 2B, J. Read and J. Campbell to LMS, ‘A Short Account’, 12 July 1820
- Ibid.
- Transactions, vol. 4, ‘Abstract of a Letter from Robert Hamilton, dated Lattakoo 15 May 1817’, 422
- CWM, 8, 3A, Report on Mr Read's Case, no date (probably written by J. Campbell in 1820)
- Campbell , J. Travels in South Africa Undertaken at the Request of the London Missionary Society;Being a Narrative of a Second Journey in the Interior of That Country, vol.1 (London, 1815), 85;and vol. 2, 200
- Transactions, vol. 4, ‘An Abridged Account of a Journey of about One Thousand One Hundred Miles on Horseback, into the Interior of the Colony of the Cape, by the Rev. George Thorn, Missionary at Cape Town (Journey Started 6 Sept. 1816)’, 356–9
- CWM, 6, 3B, Cape Town, letter from G. Thorn to Directors, 21 Feb. 1816;CWM, 7, 1C, Cape Town, Letter from G. Thorn to Directors, 10 Apr. 1817;and CWM, 7, 4D, Cape Town, G. Thorn to G. Burder, 26 May 1818
- Transactions, vol. 4, ‘Mr Thorn's Account of his Journey into the Interior of the Colony of the Cape’, 385
- CWM, 5, 2E, Cape Town, letter from G. Thorn to Hardcastle, LMS Director, 27 Oct. 1813
- CWM, 7, 1C, Cape Town, letter from G. Thorn to Directors, 10 Apr. 1817
- CWM, 5, 2E, Cape Town, letter from G. Thorn to Hardcastle, 27 Oct. 1813
- Sales , J. 1975 . Mission Stations and the Coloured Communities of the Eastern Cape 1800–1852 57 Cape Town and Rotterdam
- CWM, ‘A Copy of the Original Minutes’, 2
- CWM, 7, 3C, Bethelsdorp, letter from E. Evans to Mr Hankey, LMS Treasurer, 14 Nov. 1817
- CWM, 7, 2A, ‘Minutes of a Conversation which Took Place at Bethelsdorp, June 5th 1817, to the Director of the Mission Society’
- CWM, 7, 2B, Cape Town, letter from G. Thom to G. Burder, 11 July 1817
- CWM, 7, 3C, Bethelsdorp, letter from Brother Messer to LMS Directors, 26 Dec. 1817
- CWM, ‘A Copy of the Original Minutes’, 8
- CWM, 7, 2B, Cape Town, letter from G. Thom to G. Burder, 11 July 1817;CWM, 7, 2C, London, J. Campbell to LMS, 6 Aug. 1817;and CWM, 7, 4D, Theopolis, letter from G. Barker to G. Burder, LMS Secretary, 28 May 1818 (citing letter from J. Read)
- CWM, ‘A Copy of the Original Minutes’, 44
- CWM, 7, 5C, Stellenbosch, letter from J. Bakker to the Directors, 19 Dec. 1818
- CWM, 7, 4B, Cape Town, letter from Mrs Smith to G. Burder, 16 Feb. 1818
- CWM, 7, 5B, Bethelsdorp, letter from A. Hamilton to Directors, 25 Sep. 1818
- Ibid.
- CWM, 7, 2B, Cape Town, letter from G. Thorn to G. Burder, 11 July 1817
- CA, COAI 487, London, ietterfrom J. Bissettto J. Philip, Oct. 1818, which describes church uproar demeaning LMS Directors
- CWM, 7, 2C, London, letter from J. Campbell to LMS Directors, 6 Aug. 1817
- Ibid.
- CWM, 7, 3C, London, ‘Remarks on the Cape Conference Addressed to Wm. A. Hankey, Chairman to Missionary Society by John Campbell’, 24 Nov. 1817
- Elbourne, ‘To Colonise the Mind’, 213
- CWM, 8, 3A, Report on Mr Read's Case by J. Campbell, no date (probably mid 1820)
- CWM, 7, 4D, Theopolis, letter from G. Barker to LMS, 28 May 1818, including long quotation from a letter from Read, 24 Feb. 1818
- CWM, Report on Mr Read's Case
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Campbell, Campbell's Travels, Second Journey, vol. 2, 185
- Ibid, vol. 1, 274
- CWM, ‘Report on Read's Case’
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- CWM, 8, 2D, Burder's Place, New Lattakoo, letters from R. Hamilton to J. Campbell and G. Burder, 15 and 31 Aug. 1820, respectively
- CWM, 8, 2E, Griquatown, letter from R. Moffat to Melville in Cape Town, 17 Aug. 1820
- CWM, 8, 2D, New Lattakoo, letter from R. Hamilton to G. Burder, 31 Aug. 1820
- Schoeman , K. 1995 . A Thorn Bush that Grows in the Path: The Missionary Career of Ann Hamilton, 1815–1823 Cape Town See (for a description of Moffat's ‘purges’
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