Missions (Africa)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Agreements, circulars and other material, c 1891-1923
File
Identifier: Coll-210/1/9
Scope and Contents
Agreements, circulars and other material, including: copy in Booth’s hand of his father John Booth’s account (of 1870) of his early life; copies of an article by Joseph Booth ‘The Greatest Will in the World - A Plea for Missionary Enterprise’ setting out his aims for the missions in Africa (c 1891); copy in Booth’s hand of a petition to the Bechuanaland Deputy Commissioner (1890) by Lobengula; circulars from the Zambesi Industrial Mission (1893-1895); editions of the ...
Dates:
c 1891-1923
Chilembwe letters, c 1965 (copies of material dated 1900-1915)
File — Box CLX-A-20: Series Coll-490/14; Series Coll-490/15
Identifier: Coll-490/14/4
Scope and Contents
This file contains Chilembwe letters dating from 1900 to 1915 (copies).
Letters in the Zomba Archives (9) (with covering letter, 17 March 1965). Writers: Chilembwe, Peters, Bismarck. Includes Minutes of the National Industrial Union Meetings, 15 June 1909 and 14 August 1909.
Letters from British East Africa. Sent as 'News from the Field' to the National Baptist Foreign Mission Board of...
Dates:
c 1965 (copies of material dated 1900-1915)
Churchiwashi Mission, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3214
Scope and Contents
Photograph of the Churchiwashi Mission buildings in [Africa?] in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Copies of articles on Booth, 1929, 1948-1969, 1970-1983
File
Identifier: Coll-210/2/1
Scope and Contents
Copies of articles on Booth, including articles by Emily Booth Langworthy "The Early Days of the Zambesi Industrial Mission" printed in The Polished Shaft the organ of the Zambesi Mission.
Dates:
1929, 1948-1969, 1970-1983
File 18: Research Papers relating to Diaries and Original Material, 1868-1966
Series — Box CLX-A-22: Series Coll-490/18; Series Coll-490/19
Identifier: Coll-490/18
Scope and Contents
Research papers relating to diaries and original material.
[not in box as of 10/06/2024] Notebook: Inside are two letters (copies) from Sarah B. Lewis, a friend of Miss Delaney and R. M. Miller, to the Epworth League7th St ME Church, Lorain, Ohio. 1. Dated 1910; 2. No date. Also a letter to Miss Miller from E. B. Delaney, 2 April 1910, and another to Miss Delaney, 3 October 1909. Notebook sent by R. M....
Dates:
1868-1966
G. H. Hollis, 1907, 1955
File — Box CLX-A-24: Series Coll-490/22; Series Coll-490/23
Identifier: Coll-490/23/RC(Hollis)
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between George Shepperson and Winifred Hollis concerning her late husband George H. Hollis, who was in charge of the Churches of Christ Mission at Namiwawa, Nyasaland, between 1908 and 1915. Includes a questionnaire and photographs of the mission.
Letter from George Shepperson to Mrs Hollis, Capetown. Introduces himself. Asks if she would be willing to answer questions on the days she and...
Dates:
1907, 1955
Papers of Arthur Ruffell Barlow
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-208
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of material about the Church of Scotland mission in Kenya, about Kikuyu language and culture, and about the interests and concerns of Africans and their relation to the government. In particular it includes: Barlow's comments on and additions to theKikuyu-English Dictionaryby L.J. Beecher and G.S.B. Beecher (including volumes of the 1935 dictionary with Barlow's handwritten amendments) with correspondence (1956-1962) about the publication of a revised version;...
Dates:
1903-1965
Papers of David Clement Ruffell Scott
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-223
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of nineteen letters from Scott to his close friend the Reverend James Robertson written mainly from Blantyre, Nyasaland (Malawi) from the time of his arrival in 1881 to 1895, the year in which his wife and brother died. They describe in some detail the work of the mission and his experiences in Africa.
Dates:
1881-1895
Papers of Helen M. Taylor
Fonds — Box Gen.2180, Folder: Gen.2180/3
Identifier: Coll-224
Scope and Contents
The collection covers the period of the controversy over the Central African Federation and the protests of the nationalist movement under Hastings Banda. The material includes papers, memoranda, telegrams and reports by Taylor and others relating to the position
of the church, mission and teacher training college at Livingstonia and giving their opinions on the events in Nyasaland. Statements and correspondence are directed to the government, the Devlin Commission of Enquiry and to...
Dates:
1958-1963
Papers of John William Arthur
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-207
Scope and Contents
The collection consists mainly of correspondence and papers (1907-1949) including letters from Arthur to his mother; circular letters and newsletters from the Kikuyu mission; sections from Arthur's diaries and notes on his travels throughout East Africa; reports on missionary conferences; memoranda by Arthur and others on native affairs such as the labour question, land tenure, education and female circumcision; minutes, memoranda and papers of the Kikuyu Association and the Kikuyu Mission...
Dates:
1902-1954