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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
PhD thesis by Wilfrid Stott on the Nanchao Kingdom, notes and reports on the Tai people in China
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 3
Identifier: CSWC 95
Dates:
1945-1951
Photograph album of Sheena Tennant Kendall
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2054
Content Description
This is a photograph album of Sheena Lillian Grant Tennant Kendall (1883-1974), composer and daughter of wealthy Scottish industrialist James Tennant. Kendall is well identified in the album, which documents a period of residence in Japan (1919-24), as well as travels in Egypt, Burma, Ceylon, Malaysia and Shanghai, and their life at Scottish and English country estates. It also includes 19 photos of Hakone, Japan in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923; images of horse racing...
Dates:
1919-1925
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 papermaking in China 1910-1929
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1653
Scope and Contents
The group of 12 photographic prints are unlabelled but show various processes in papermaking: pulping by foot; mixing; and, hanging to dry.
Dates:
1910-1929
Reports on visits to Sichuan and Wenchuan by Thomas F. Torrance
Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 3
Identifier: CSWC 96
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1986, 1994
Rubbings of the Xi'an Stele
Collection
Identifier: Coll-2105
Content Description
Rubbings of the Xi'an Stele (also known as the "Nestorian Stele"), a memorial stone erected in 718 AD in northwest China, to commemorate the presence of the Nestorian Christian Church in the area at the time. The whole stele is nearly three metres tall, with text in both Chinese and Syriac. The heading translates as "Memorial of the Propagation in China of the Luminous Religion from Daqin [Rome]".
Rubbings of the heading and of the body of the text.
Dates:
19th century[?]
Two photograph albums of views from Shantung and Shanghai, and from Jehol and Beijing, to Yunnan
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1879
Content Description
Two albums containing black and white photographs of landscapes in a variety of locations, as well as portraits and street scenes, each with accompanying text. The first album is entitled '"China 1920-1930 - From Shantung and Shanghai to Yunan [sic]" (119 pages), and the second album is entitled "China 1920-1930 - From Jehol and Peking to Yunnan" (136 pages). Many of the photos are grouped into sets of up to ten images on a particular province or theme, such as: Futoshan/Putuoshan, near...
Dates:
late 1920s- early 1930s
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