JN73/71

Letter to Mr & Mrs Janes, from Harry M and Elvy B Brown, The Mission House, Thompson Town PO, Chapleton.

6 February 1952

From: 1952 To: 1952

Dear Mr & Mrs Janes, We trust that though not aquainted yet we may have the pleasure of meeting you both before your return to the "Old Country". Alice - our sister in law wrote about your coming and you will know that my wife is a Simpkin, and Leslie's sister. You may know know however that we had 25 years in Jamaica previously, and that I was pastor of our large historic church at Browns Town for 10 years. We do hope you will greatly enjoy you stay. You will be in two very delectable parts of our island, at Trio Bay and Shaw Park. This does not of course apply to you but on some former occasions, over the span of years, I have known our work here since 1911 - [unreadable word] and visitors have come to our Island specifically, or incidentallly, to see Baptist work - and have actually only seen only our more flourishing causes or the work in our town and city, and have missed the more missionary type of work in the more backward, hinterland areas, eg the mountainous parts of St Thomas, the work in St Elizabeth and here in the mountains of Upper Chapelton. This has tended to give some a warped and only partial view of our work, problems, difficulties, etc. Apart then from merely seeing us, we do hope you will be able to get a fairly complete picture of the Baptists position. We of course, after 15 years absence in England, see great changes, some of which mean definate advance; but in many places many of the old supersititions "die hard", and the moral problems are still very serious, as the recent correspondence on "Smelly Alley" in the "Gleam" (?) all too faithfully portray. However whatever you see, or don't see, may you have in many ways, "the time of your lives". With our warm feelings and very best wishes, yours heartily, Harry M and Elvy B Brown. PS Can you work in a day or two here? The best road is the longest - via Chapeltown. You could return the shortest way - easiest in De-scent [sic]. Or we could meet you at May Pen station with our car. HMB.

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Janes, Herbert Charles,
Janes, Hilda,
Brown, Harry M,
Brown, Elvy B

CORRESPONDENCE, Baptist Church, holidays, Hotel, Jamaica Thompson Town, Jamaica