The Life of John Thomas

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Excerpt from The Life of John Thomas: Surgeon of the Earl of Oxford East Indiaman, and First Baptist Missionary to Bengal For many years I have felt deep interest in the character and history of Mr. Thomas. The earliest records of the Baptist Mission contain so much, and yet so little, about him, - there is so much to awaken, and then to disappoint, curiosity, in the particulars there given, - that a strong desire arose in my mind to search out and to arrange in a consecutive narrative all that could be ascertained regarding him. This desire induced me to put together the substance of all the notices of Mr. Thomas which I could discover in the first volumes of the Periodical Accounts and in several old magazines. The result was a series of papers published in Calcutta, in 1853, and reprinted in England in the Baptist Magazine for 1853-4. Since that time many interesting documents, hitherto unpublished, have come into my hands. Chief amongst these are (1) MS. letters and several volumes of Mr. Thomas's journal, with a Common-Place book and other miscellaneous papers, very kindly sent out to Calcutta, from his native place, Fairford, by his grand-daughter, (2) a copy of his letters preserved at the Baptist Mission House, London, and (3) a number of his letters to Dr. Carey, for the use of which I am indebted to J. C. Marshman, Esq. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.