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Church of Scotland China (Manchuria) Collection
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 40
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of: some early material relating to the mission in Manchuria including letters from John Ross (1870) and a memoir by Ethel Omelvena (1957); Moukden Medical College annual statements (1911-1948); material relating to the mission after the Second World War including extracts from minutes and reports and circular letters from missionaries (1946-1968); reports on visits to China (1980s); photographs of Manchuria, the mission and church (c 1910-1940s); maps and plans;...
Dates:
1870-[ca. 1986]
Collection of Papers of Alexander Ramsay Mackenzie (1879-1929) and Eliza Jane Mackenzie (1879-1977)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 19
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of: material relating to Chinese phonetics including "alphabet blocks" and the New Testament in Chinese phonetic script (c 1920s); some further items relating to the Mackenzies' time in Manchuria, these are mainly artefacts or printed reports and pamphlets (1920s-1951); a small amount of correspondence about and reports on the mission including correspondence with Chinese Christians from the 1960s; lecture and other notes by Ellie Mackenzie on theological and mission...
Dates:
[ca. 1906]-2001
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
Papers of Cecil Polhill (1860-1938) and Arthur Polhill (1863-1935)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 10
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a copy of a draft manuscript Two Etonians in China 1885-1925 by Cecil and Arthur Polhill. The manuscript includes sections written by both brothers and a short, abridged section of Evangelisation of the World by Benjamin Broomhall. The manuscript covers the brothers' early life, conversion, and work in China and refers to the Cambridge Seven and others working in China at the...
Dates:
1903-1926
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
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