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Papers of Thomas Colvin (1925-2000)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 39
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of three main sections (1) personal items and early mission history; (2) Colvins in Malawi 1954-1958; and (3) Colvins in Malawi 1964-1974. Section (1) includes: personal items on Colvin such as his c.v.; and material on early mission and church history including publications and early accounts and photographs (1890s-1976). Section (2) includes: mission and church reports and papers (1950s); letters to the Colvins around the time that they were excluded from Malawi,...
Dates:
[ca. 1890]-2001
Papers of William Hutton Marwick
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-219
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of: correspondence, personal papers and diaries, in particular letters to Marwick from his family and others referring to personal matters, to Marwick's editorship of publications and to the Ruskin Reading Guild, and on occasion to his work in Scotland and at the mission in Old Calabar (1881-1901); letters to Miss Elizabeth Hutton, who was later to become Marwick's wife, some about her appointment as a missionary at Old Calabar (1891-1899); the diaries of Marwick...
Dates:
1881-1901
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 Emily Godfrey (1884-1978)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 20
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of photographs, negatives and lantern slides (3 slides only) showing the hospital at Ama Achara, patients and staff, missionaries, church workers, other areas in Eastern Nigeria including Calabar, and mission work in general; most of the photographs are from the 1920s-mid 1940s but there are some earlier ones of Mary Slessor; and there is also a printed article on the hospital (1937).
Dates:
20th century
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