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Letter from Rev. John Ross to his daughter Peggy Ross about Chinese religion, 1914
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 79
Scope and Contents
This letter was pasted into a copy of The origin of the Chinese people, by John Ross, published 1916
Dates:
1914
Letter to Rev. T. H. Keir, Aberdeen, Scotland from Hugh E. Baikie, Beawar, India, 14 May 1946.
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 1
Identifier: CSWC 61
Dates:
14 May 1946
Papers of Helen M. Taylor
Fonds — Box: Gen.2180, Folder: Gen.2180/3
Identifier: Coll-224
Scope and Contents
The collection covers the period of the controversy over the Central African Federation and the protests of the nationalist movement under Hastings Banda. The material includes papers, memoranda, telegrams and reports by Taylor and others relating to the position
of the church, mission and teacher training college at Livingstonia and giving their opinions on the events in Nyasaland. Statements and correspondence are directed to the government, the Devlin Commission of Enquiry and to...
Dates:
1958-1963
Papers of Mary Findlay about Manchuria, a visit to Shenyang (1985-86)
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 4
Identifier: CSWC 100
Dates:
1930-2001
Papers of Robert Laws
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-75
Scope and Contents
The Papers of Robert Laws consist of notebooks and papers mainly relating to the work of the Livingstonia Mission in Nyasaland (now Malawi), including notebooks on African languages. There is correspondence and other papers and also printed items including translations from the Bible and grammars.
Dates:
c 1875-1934
Papers, volumes, and photographs of Robert and Margaret Laws
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 2
Identifier: CSWC 89
Scope and Contents
Volume of anthems, New Testament, empty wallet and photographs and prints of studio portratis of Robert and Margaret Laws
Dates:
20th c
Photograph album related to the Gotch-Robinson High School (or Shoushan Middle School)
Item
Identifier: Coll-1998
Content Description
This is an album containing approxmately 147 photographs with captions, showing staff, students, premises and scenes from the Gotch-Robinson High School (also known as Shoushan Middle School) in the 1920s. The school was a British Baptist school located in Tsingchowfu, Shantung, in North China. It was founded in 1917 by the English Baptist Missionary Society, and was dissolved in 1929 amid the changes in the education system after the Nationalists took over Shandong province.The...
Dates:
1926-1929
Photographs of Viola Walker and Pygmies, 1910
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 2
Identifier: CSWC 91
Dates:
1910
Typescript epistolary journal by [Alice] Maud Hitchcock
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1593
Identifier: Coll-2000
Content Description
Extensive archive of letters, together forming a journal of seven years’ work for the Church Missionary Society in China. Addressed to ‘dear Friends’ of her church in Bermondsey, Hitchcock’s letters provide a detailed account of her journey to China and her mission there. Though evidently travelling frequently throughout south-east China, Hitchcock was stationed primarily on Haitan (Pingtan) island with Eleanor Jane Harrison, recording
efforts to teach the Gospel to the local population and...
Dates:
1901-1908