SPG and the MENA region

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This collection comprises chiefly the volumes of copies of letters received (CLR) and copies of letters sent (CLS) for the period from 1842 to 1928, and relating to the Society's activities from Iran in the East to the Mediterranean basin and Gibraltar in the West. Included are the letters dated 1926-1928 from two volumes entitled "Moslem works", most of which deal with either the Society's desire to support the Abyssinian Church in the face of Muslim missionary activity, or attempts to revive relations with Christian communities in Iraq following the withdrawal of the Church Missionary Society at the end of the World War I.
CLR/98: Gibraltar and the East - Vol. 1 (1842-1866)
CLR/99: Gibraltar, Europe and Western Asia - Vol. 2 (1866-1924)
CLR/100: Jerusalem - Vol. 1 (1902-1915)
CLR/101: Jerusalem - Vol. 2 (1915-1925)
CLR/103: North Africa (incl. Egypt, Sudan) - [Vol. unnumbered] (1903-1926)
CLR/223: Moslem works - Vol. 1 (1926-1928)
CLS/78: Gibralter [sic] and the East - Vol. 1 (1842-1866)
CLS/79: Gibraltar - Vol. 2 (1866-1924)
CLS/80: The Near East (rec’d & sent) - Vol. 1 (1920-1922)
CLS/81: Jerusalem - Vol. 1 (1901-1920)
CLS/82: North Africa (incl. Egypt, Sudan & the Canary Islands) - Vol. 1 (1914-1927)
CLS/162: Moslem works - Vol. 1 (1926-1928)
Related to this collection, and available separately, are the unbound materials from the three boxes (C/CRIMEA/1-3) on the work of the SPG's chaplains during the Crimean War, 1854-1856, along with two boxes of letters, reports, etc. from (C/EUR/22-23) for the period 1860-1948, relating chiefly to the Crimean Memorial Church in Constantinople [i.e. Istanbul], Turkey, which formed part of the Anglican diocese of Gibraltar.