Women missionaries

Scope and Contents Correspondence: Josephine Cunnington Edwards and George Shepperson.1. Letter from George Shepperson, University of Edinburgh, to Mrs Josephine Cunnington Edwards, Broadview Academy, Illinois, USA. George Shepperson introduces himself. He has heard that Mrs Edwards spent nine years with the Malamula Mission in Nyasaland and must consequently have interests similar to his. He outlines his plan for a book on the Nyasaland 1915 Rising and gives some indication of...

Scope and Contents Papers relating to Black and African-American missionaries in Africa. Emma Bertha Delany (1871-1922). African-American missionary in Africa. Papers relating to her training and career. Biographical summary, extract from a letter from Miss Tapley to Mr Lucian Drury, 23.02.56, and an article written by Miss Delany, entitled 'Why I go as a Foreign Missionary' and printed in the Spelman Messenger, Vol. 18,...

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...