Ittri ta’ John Kitto minn Malta, 1827

Abstract

On June 20, 1827, John Kitto, aged 23, boarded the ship Blackwall leaving from Wilberforce, England on its way to Malta. Accompanying him on his trip were Dr. Korck, a German physician who later became an Anglican minister and Mr. Jadovnicki, a Polish Jew who had newly arrived in England from America where he was a student in a protestant college in New Jersey. The latter was on his way to Palestine to work among the Jews of the Church Missionary Society. Kitto was on his way to meet a man named Wolff to help him in his endeavours. During his stay in Malta, Kitto worked at the Church Missionary Society printing press which at the moment was printing books in Arabic, Maltese and Greek. These letters describe his sojourn in Malta.