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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

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

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

Photographs of Viola Walker and Pygmies, 1910

Fonds — Box: CSWC Small Collections Box 2

Identifier: CSWC 91

Dates: 1910

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Records of the Calabar Mission

Fonds

Identifier: GD3

Scope and Contents The collection consists of: an English Calabar dictionary by William Anderson (1849-1851); material used by William Marshall Christie while preparing his record of the mission including a manuscript notebook of locations of missionaries (1911-1945), a note of local church and mission records, notes of the work at the Slessor Memorial Home, Arochuku derived from the S.M.H Record Book (1915-1930), Zenana Quarterly Records (1887-1899) and the Women's Foreign Mission Annual Reports (1900-1908), and...

Dates: 1849-1969

Found in: New College Library Special Collections

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 her...

Dates: 1901-1908

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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

Papers of Thomas Colvin (1925-2000)

Papers of William Hutton Marwick

Papers, volumes, and photographs of Robert and Margaret Laws

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

Photographs of Emily Godfrey (1884-1978)

Photographs of Viola Walker and Pygmies, 1910

Records of the Calabar Mission

Typescript epistolary journal by [Alice] Maud Hitchcock

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