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58 | Philippe Bornet www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/2, 55–86 educated by the wife of a missionary in Mysore, Karnataka. The engraving of them, based on a sketch drawn by a local artist, was aimed at inspiring compassion in the metropolitan sponsors of the mission, a society of wom- en based in Birmingham. The author of the article, Annie Coles, ardently insisted that more financial support was needed.9 She added that if properly educated with adequate means, these Hindu twins would later contribute to the progress of the missionary work. Noteworthy in the engraving are the children’s clothes, certainly sent from Europe by the sponsors, and their facial expressions, suggesting a gentle character. The picture adds a strong evocative power to a compelling story. 9 The text invites donations: “Help them with your money and by your prayers, that they may never disgrace the much-loved names they bear (sc. George and John)”. John Angell James (1785–1859) was a famous British “non-conformist” evangelical preacher and au- thor of several books; George Storer Mansfield (1764–1837) had donated money for the foundation of Spring Hill College, a non-conformist seminary in Birmingham. Fig. 1: Cover of the The Missionary Magazine and Chronicle 176, (1851), published by the London Missionary Society. Fig. 2: Panel 56, “Tamil lands”, Bilder-Tafeln, Calwer Verlagsverein.