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Papers of Myra Carpenter (1900-1978)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 18
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of: letters from Carpenter to her parents sometimes enclosing letters from others (1922-1951); notes, correspondence, reports and other material relating to Tanishan Orphanage (1924-1954); reminiscences, notes, articles, addresses and talks by Carpenter on her time in China and on women in China (1928-1960s); pamphlets, circulars and other material relating to the China Inland Mission (also OMF) and the British and Foreign Bible Society (from circa 1920s mainly...
Dates:
20th century
Papers of T. Ralph Morton (1900-1977) and Jenny Morton (1901-1986)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 11
Scope and Contents
The collection is in two main parts: letters from Ralph Morton (and from 1927 his wife Jenny) to his parents and brothers describing his life and work as a missionary in China with some reference to the political situation and attitudes to religion (1925-1937); and letters from the Mortons to Robert and Dorothy Mackie referring to Morton's life as a student in Glasgow (1924) and to life in China (1925-1930); the collection also includes a few 'miscellaneous' items such as a Manchurian...
Dates:
1924-1972
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
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