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Missionaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS

Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:

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...
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

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

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...
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

Prayers: 'Announcement of a collection for the Serampore Mission'

 Item
Identifier: MS CHA6/20/37
Dates: 1831-1847
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / The Chalmers Collection / Section 6, Manuscript writings and papers / Sermons, prayers, and lectures

Presbyterian ministers in India [Synod of Fife], [1813-1815?]

 Item
Identifier: MS CHA6/23/18
Dates: [1813-1815?]
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / The Chalmers Collection / Section 6, Manuscript writings and papers / Speeches

Proposal for employing a missionary in Water of Leith, 20 September 1833

 Item
Identifier: MS CHA6/22/7
Dates: 20 September 1833
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / The Chalmers Collection / Section 6, Manuscript writings and papers / Church papers, Church of Scotland

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),...
Dates: 1849-1969
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

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