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Papers of Ragnhild Whiting (1912-2018) and Sister Marjorie Raphael (b. 1923), Society of St Margaret, Haiti

Fonds

Identifier: CSWC 21

Scope and Contents The collection consists of two main series: (1) Ragnhild Whiting material which includes: biographical information on Whiting (1986-1990); diary and journal entries by Whiting describing her work in Haiti (1980-1991); notes for talks and addresses given by Whiting on Haiti (1985-1990); material for a biography of Whiting by her daughter mainly abstracts from journals and letters (1980-1992); letters to Whiting about her work (1986-1991); newsletters, pamphlets and circulars relating to St...

Dates: 1956-1992

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Richard Baxter (1925-2009)

Fonds

Identifier: CSWC 35

Scope and Contents The collection consists of: annual reports written by Baxter (1956-1958); circular letters sent by the Baxters to friends and supporters (1955-1969); notebooks and diary entries written by Baxter describing his visits to congregations and village churches around Mulanje (1961-1962); general correspondence including a copy of a letter written by John Moir (1895, 1955-1960s); material relating to the United Church Lay Training Centre in Chilema (1965-1968); papers, articles and reports on Malawi...

Dates: 1895-1993

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Robert Laws

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-75

Scope and Contents The Papers of Robert Laws consist of notebooks and papers mainly relating to the work of the Livingstonia Mission in Nyasaland (now Malawi), including notebooks on African languages. There is correspondence and other papers and also printed items including translations from the Bible and grammars.

Dates: c 1875-1934

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Robert Moffat

Fonds

Identifier: Coll-220

Scope and Contents The collection consists of four letters from Moffat (c 1841, 1873-1875) referring to engagements and to payment for 'Scripture Lessons'; The Lords Prayer in Tswana in Moffat's hand (after 1870); an engraved, autographed portrait of Moffat; and the first verse of a hymn in the Tswana language in Moffat's hand (1841).

Dates: [ca. 1841]-1875

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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 Student...

Dates: 1924-1972

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of the Rt. Rev. Stanley Booth-Clibborn (1924-1996)

Fonds

Identifier: CSWC 44

Scope and Contents The collection consists mainly of material relating to the Booth-Clibborns' visit to Kenya to monitor the 1992 elections with reports, briefings, press releases and cuttings and correspondence (1992-1993); also includes other press cuttings and articles about Kenya (1972-1993); and some material on the Africa Christian Press.

Dates: 1972-1993

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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 (1892,...

Dates: 1881-1901

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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 album...

Dates: 1926-1929

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Papers of Ragnhild Whiting (1912-2018) and Sister Marjorie Raphael (b. 1923), Society of St Margaret, Haiti

Papers of Richard Baxter (1925-2009)

Papers of Robert Laws

Papers of Robert Moffat

Papers of T. Ralph Morton (1900-1977) and Jenny Morton (1901-1986)

Papers of the Rt. Rev. Stanley Booth-Clibborn (1924-1996)

Papers of Thomas Colvin (1925-2000)

Papers of William Hutton Marwick

Photograph album related to the Gotch-Robinson High School (or Shoushan Middle School)

Photographs of Emily Godfrey (1884-1978)

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