Missionaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:
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
Papers of the Rev. Will Freshwater and A. (Nancy) Freshwater
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1059
Scope and Contents
The collection - E2005.13 - is composed of typescript and manuscript material in the form of off-prints, articles, reports, notebooks, letters, postcards, and diary. There are also photographs. Within the typescript material and collection of letters, there is: correspondence with users of the collection covering period 1980-1985; a copy of Manners and customs of the Ba-Bemba, collected by W. Freshwater, Mbereshi, 1906; manuscript postcard notes, and...
Dates:
1901-1985
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
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 (1892,...
Dates:
1881-1901
Photo album relating to the Livingstonia Mission, and to Malawi, 1930s
Item — Box CLX-A-345
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0092
Scope and Contents
Photo album containing around 100 black-and-white photographs showing the everyday life of missionaries and locals in Livingstonia, Isoko, Karonga. There are small handwritten captions in different hands. Some photos show the Livingstonia missionary School in Nyasaland (modern day Malawi), which was established in 1875 by Dr Robert Laws, a disciple of David Livingstone. Photographs include Dr Laws standing on the steps of Livingstonia Institution along with the new principal.
Dates:
1930s
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
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
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
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