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Diaries of James William Westgarth (fl. 1906-1945)

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Identifier: CSWC 6

Scope and Contents The collection consists of: a diary June 1906-Jan 1912 (almost daily entries describing his experiences and life with the mission dating from his departure from England); notebook 1915-1924 (notes on mission work, relations with schools and local churches, and agreements with chiefs and church leaders, includes notes on mission accounts and supplies); diaries 1923-24 (brief entries for most days); diary 1927 (entries for most days, diary covers the period of the Spirit Movement); and a copy of...

Dates: 1906-1945

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Grammar of the Foolah language by Robert Maxwell MacBrair

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Identifier: Coll-785

Scope and Contents Autograph manuscript of MacBrair's 'sketch' of the grammar of the Foolah (or Foulah) language spoken by the pastoral Foulahs (or Fulani), the Teucorlars (or Tukulors) and the Laubies of the interior of Western Africa, bound together.

Dates: 1836-1843

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Interserve Scotland

Fonds

Identifier: CSWC 50

Scope and Contents The collection comprises the archives of Interserve Scotland. Minute books of the Indian Female Normal Schools and Instruction Society, Edinburgh Auxiliary , the Zenana Bible and Medical Mision, subsequently the Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship and now Interserve from 1880-1975. Correspondence, papers and 73 lantern slides. The society was principally concerned with medical and educational work in Asia. The collection also includes society publications: ...

Dates: 1880- 1988

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

L. C. Wood Collection (fl. 1920-1943)

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Identifier: CSWC 17

Scope and Contents The collection consists of 69 colour slides (5 cm x 5cm) with a full commentary for a lantern talk entitled A preaching walk through the Ningsia district given by Wood in England depicting scenes of life in China, church and mission work and missionaries and church leaders; and an album of 20 coloured photographs of scenes in Beijing.

Part box (including 69 slides and 20 photographs)

Dates: [ca. 1930-1940]

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Identifier: CSWC 51

Scope and Contents The collection consists of material (mainly from 1914 onwards) relating to the mission in general and to the work in Peru, Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia. It includes: 1. Minutes and reports produced in the mission offices in London and in the fields from 1914 onwards. 2. Correspondence with missionaries in the field, with regional and national councils, with other missions operating in the same areas, and with other evangelical agencies. 3. Publications and printed material including issues of...

Dates: 1896-1991

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letters of John M. Leggate (c.1904-1985)

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Identifier: CSWC 12

Scope and Contents The collection is a transcription of letters written by Leggate from Manchuria between 1946 and 1949. The letters are mainly to his wife in Scotland but some are to his children and possibly to others. The transcriptions do not include the names of the recipients of the letters and are extracts from the letters only, all personal references having been removed. Leggate describes re-establishing the missionary work in Manchuria, in particular his medical work and the medical college at Moukden,...

Dates: 1946-1949

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Alan Cox (b. 1926)

Fonds

Identifier: CSWC 29

Scope and Contents Material includes correspondence about the collection (1993); prayer letters of Alan and Doris Roberts founders of the Home (1955-1960) and of Nona Bell, a sister at the Home (1961-1964); letters and accounts relating to money raised by Cox (1958-1960); notes on the history of the home by Alfred (Fred) Hasted (Welfare Officer), Bella Teite and Enid Johnson (various dates); letters to Hasted from Nigeria referring to the Home (1970-1982); and articles and reports relating to Uzuakoli, the Home...

Dates: 1955-1993

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Annie Gray Buchan (1895-1988)

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Identifier: CSWC 16

Scope and Contents The collection consists of: notes and reminiscences written by Buchan after her return from China with some original items and correspondence (1925-1984); talks and addresses concerning China mainly given in the UK by Buchan (1928, 1946-1986); pamphlets and printed items about China including ones on and by Buchan (1941-1989); papers on Eric Liddell and personal items belonging to Buchan (1921-1987); and photographs and pictures of Buchan and China (1920s-1950).

Dates: 1921-1989

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Arthur Ruffell Barlow

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-208

Scope and Contents The collection consists of material about the Church of Scotland mission in Kenya, about Kikuyu language and culture, and about the interests and concerns of Africans and their relation to the government. In particular it includes: Barlow's comments on and additions to theKikuyu-English Dictionaryby L.J. Beecher and G.S.B. Beecher (including volumes of the 1935 dictionary with Barlow's handwritten amendments) with correspondence (1956-1962) about the publication of a revised version; Barlow's...

Dates: 1903-1965

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Diaries of James William Westgarth (fl. 1906-1945)

Grammar of the Foolah language by Robert Maxwell MacBrair

Interserve Scotland

L. C. Wood Collection (fl. 1920-1943)

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Letter from Rev. John Ross to his daughter Peggy Ross about Chinese religion, 1914

Letters of John M. Leggate (c.1904-1985)

Papers of Alan Cox (b. 1926)

Papers of Annie Gray Buchan (1895-1988)

Papers of Arthur Ruffell Barlow

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