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Guide to the American Missionaries and Educators in China Collection
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Series 1 Ady (Merrill S.)

Scope and Content Note

Merrill Steele Ady was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1895. Mr. Ady reached Canton, China in 1923, sponsored by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. He was located in Yeung Kong, Kwangtung from 1924-1941. From 1941-1949 he was in Canton as Executive Secretary, South China Mission of the Presbyterian Church. From 1950-1960 he was located in Hong Kong, New Territory and in 1960-1965 in Kowloon, Hong Kong. He served as a field agent in Secret Intelligence in the Office of Strategic Services in China 1944-1945 to help "get the Japanese out of China."
Excerpted from China Missionaries Oral History Project: Merrill Steele Ady . Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, 1969.
Box/Folder 28 : 1

Letter from Colonel Richard P. Heppner, Strategic Services Officer to Merrill S. Ady May 19, 1945

Physical Description: typed letter signed, photocopy
Box/Folder 28 : 1

Letter from William J. Donovan, Director of the Office of Strategic Services, Washington, D.C. to Merrill S September 19, 1945

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 28 : 1

Statement concerning Christian work in "liberated" areas of China and the prospects for Christian work undated

Box/Folder 28 : 1

Annual report of the Christian Family Service Center, Hong Kong 1965

 

Series 2 Cross (Rowland McLean)

Scope and Content Note

Rowland McLean Cross was born in 1888 in Sauk Center, Minnesota. Mr. Cross went to China in 1917 under the sponsorship of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission. From 1917-1940 Mr. Cross was in North China in several positions. He did student evangelistic work near the National University, including Bible Classes, conferences and discussion groups. As American Executive Secretary he worked co-equally with a Chinese Executive Secretary for the North China Kung Li Hui Council (the organization of Congregational Churches, schools, and hospitals). He then moved to the Peking-Tunghsien (formerly Tungchow) area as Executive Secretary of that country field, and engaged in evangelical and rural reconstruction work.
Excerpted from China Missionaries Oral History Project: Rowland McLean Cross . Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, 1969.
Box/Folder 28 : 2

Copy of "Christianity in Revolutionary China: A Group of Four Programs" by Rowland McLean Cross, pgs. 1-43 undated

Box/Folder 28 : 2

Copy of article "Now China Is Sending Missionaries Our Way," "The Grand Rapids Herald," pg. 10 October 22, 1944

Box/Folder 28 : 2

Copy of statement "China's Christian Youth" 1945

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 28 : 2

Copy of article "A Soldier of the Cross in Central China," "Boston Evening Transcript" February 13, 1932

Box/Folder 28 : 2

Copy of letter to Dr. Fred Goodsell, former Executive Vice-president of the United Church Board for World Ministries of the United Church of Christ to Rowland McLean Cross November 3, 1965

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 28 : 2

Copy of statement "The Christian Response to Revolutionary Change in China" by Rowland M. Cross undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 28 : 2

Copy of passport for use in China signed by J.K. Caldwell, Consul General of the US at Tientsin, China January 29, 1938

Physical Description: typed document signed, photocopy
Box/Folder 28 : 2

Copy of statement "Is it Nothing to You?" with handwritten postscript undated

Physical Description: typed letter signed, photocopy
Box/Folder 28 : 2

Handwritten notes from "Watchman, What of the Night?," address delivered before the Missions Council of Congregational Christian Churches, Cleveland, Ohio, reprinted in "The Voice of the Carleton Alumni," 1945 January 24, 1945

Box/Folder 28 : 2

Three sheets of handwritten quotes from "A Soldier of the Cross in Central China" from The Churchman Afield in "The Boston Evening Transcript" February 13, 1932

Box/Folder 28 : 2

Copy of article "Watchman, What of the Night?" from "The Voice of the Carleton Alumni, pgs 3, 4, 12, 20 1945

Box/Folder 28 : 2

Handwritten quotes from "Now China is Sending Missionaries our Way," "The Grand Rapids Herald," p. 10 October 22, 1944

 

Series 3 Ely (Lois Anna)

Scope and Content Note

Lois Anna Ely was born in Missouri on December 29, 1888. She completed her Master of Arts from the College Missions in June 1919, writing the thesis Kwan-Yin Bodhisattva. She was a teacher and church worker for the United Christian Missionary Society in Nanking. In the early 1940s Ms. Ely moved to Shanghai where she did editorial work. While living in Shanghai was taken to the Great China University grounds to captivity and was in a Japanese Prison camp for 8 months. 1050 prisoners from Great Britain, United States, and Holland were held in the internment camp, a plot of 12 acres known as the Chapei Civil Assembly Center. Ms. Ely lost 25 pounds while in captivity at the camp. The ordeal finally concluded in 1943, when the hostages were taken home on the SS Gripsholm, a Swedish prisoner exchange. Ms. Ely died in 1972 at 83 years old.
The bulk of the Lois Ely collection contains scrapbooks that document her time in the Japanese internment camp. Included are numerous letters from loved ones, newspaper clippings, and ephemeral materials, such as menus from the ship while she was headed home, postcards of sites visited, cloth samples, and identification cards. One of the scrapbooks features a detailed hand colored ink sketch of the compound where she was imprisoned.
Box/Folder 1 : 1

Correspondence 1941 and undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 1 : 2

Correspondence and notes 1967-1969

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 1 : 3

Song lyrics, poem, paper place mat, and flyer for the Hong Kong Refugee Childrens Choir undated

Box/Folder 1 : 4

Twenty-five minutes with Lois Ely, script for program probably 1970

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 1 : 5

Article by Noel F. Busch, "Avery Brundage: Olympian of Asian Art." The Readers Digest undated

Box/Folder 1 : 6

Booklet by Samuel Guy Inman, A Gentleman and a Scholar undated

Box/Folder 1 : 7

Tengsien-Yihsien Co-station Report. Shantung, China 1936

Box/Folder 1 : 8

Booklet Mathea Sut Kipana Thupha. Calcutta: The British & Foreign Bible Society 1932

Box/Folder 1 : 9

Notes for research(?) on Peiping, Japan (1937), Chinese Sacred Moutains, Rural Sociology Report, and C.M.S. Navigation Co 1937

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 1 : 10

Photographs of West China: Bridge in Cheugtu area, West China Union University, kitchen in Chinese home, women grinding wheat; 5 gelatin silver prints (some hand colored) undated

Box/Folder 1 : 11

Apropos of Banquets undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 1 : 12

Correspondence to Ely pasted into a scrapbook 1928-1970

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 1 : 13

War Time Bits 1924-1953

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 1 : 14

Article clippings undated

Box/Folder 1 : 15

Correspondence 1961-1969

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed, typed letter
Box/Folder 1 : 16

Miscellaneous materials undated

Box/Folder 2

Scrapbook Includes articles by Lois Ely; postcards; various identifications cards, passes, and certificates; letters; sketch of interment camp; telegrams 1937-1949

Box/Folder 3

Scrapbook. On cover: Day By Day; Beginning December 8, 1941 to end of NCC Fiscal Year September 1, 1942. Includes daily journal entries; newspaper clippings 1941-1942

Box/Folder 3

Scrapbook. Includes articles by Lois Ely; postcards; various identifications cards, passes, and certificates; letters; clippings; cloth samples 1942-1944

 

Series 4 Gillespie (Miln)

Scope and Content Note

The Miln Gillespie materials consisted of one paper index file designed to hold 4x5 inch index cards. The contents were removed from the file box and the original container was discarded.
Box/Folder 31 : 1

Examples of advertisments and promotial materials for various businesses in China and Japan, including lanterns, kimonos, cloisonne ware, and a menu undated

Box/Folder 31 : 2

Business cards from China and Japan undated

Box/Folder 31 : 3

"From Hinoi Young" negatives of a girl in the woods undated

Box/Folder 31 : 4

Letter to Betty McLean, editor of the Sagehen, from Miln Gillespie 1937

Box/Folder 31 : 5

Notes from speeches and other writings undated

Box/Folder 31 : 6

Notes and citations undated

 

Series 5 Horn (Josie E.)

Box/Folder 28 : 3

Small illustration of mountains with Chinese script undated

Box/Folder 28 : 3

Copy of the Report of the Lydia Lord Davis School for Girls, Fenchow, Shansi signed by Josie E. Horn 1920

Physical Description: typed document signed
Box/Folder 28 : 3

Report of the Lydia Lord Davis School for Girls, Fenchow, Shansi signed by Josie E. Horn 1920

Physical Description: typed document signed
Box/Folder 28 : 3

Report of the Lydia Lord Davis School for Girls, Fenchow, Shansi signed by Vera M. Holmes 1921

Physical Description: typed document signed
Box/Folder 28 : 3

Copy of the Report of the Lydia Lord Davis School for Girls, Fenchow, Shansi 1921

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 28 : 3

Report of the Fenchow Girls' School 1918

Physical Description: typed document
 

Series 6 Houston (Lyda S.)

Scope and Content Note

Lyda Suydam Houston was born in Shanghai, China in 1891. Fukien Province from 1924 until 1950 except for furlough periods. She served as a teacher and principal, did Christian homework with women and children, refugeed with the school, was interned by the Japanese from September, 1944, to May, 1945, under a kind of house arrest. From 1948 until 1950 she established neighborhood work in a flooded district of Foochow. In 1950 she was ordered to leave China by the Communists.
Excerpted from China Missionaries Oral History Project: Lyda Suydam Houston . Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, 1971. Miss Houston was in
Box/Folder 28 : 4

Copy of detailed outline of events from the Japanese occupation September 27 to May 27-30, 1944

Physical Description: autograph document, photocopy
Box/Folder 28 : 4

Copy of rough draft of personal narrative with notations September 24, 1944

Box/Folder 28 : 4

Copy of letter from Houston to family May 27, 1945

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 28 : 5

Letter from Houston, Diongloh, Fukien, China to Paul November 5, 1937

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 28 : 5

Letter from Houston, Diongloh, Fukien, China to friends December 28, 1932

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 28 : 5

Poem "A Soliloquy on Wings" written in Diongloh, Fukien 1937

Physical Description: typed and autograph document
Box/Folder 28 : 5

"News from Foochow," China Bulletin #71 from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston, signed Wynn C. Fairfield (with handwritten note on back) October 10, 1944

Box/Folder 28 : 5

Announcement of retirement from "Calendar of Prayer" 1960

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 28 : 5

Letter from Yankow, Fukien, China signed "Your Co-worker" October 1941

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 28 : 6

Letter from Houston to "Friends everywhere" Christmas, 1957

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 28 : 6

Letter from Houston, Toyonaka, Osaka-fu, Japan to friends January 5, 1956

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 28 : 6

Typed Letter from Nishinomiya, Japan to friends July 27, 1952

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 28 : 6

Letter from Houston, Toyonaka, Osaka-fu, Japan to friends October 12, 1958

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 28 : 6

Letter from Houston, Toyonaka, Osaka-fu, Japan to friends March 3, 1958

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 28 : 6

Letter from Houston, Toyonaka, Osaka-fu, Japan to friends probably April 12, 1956

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 28 : 6

Letter from Houston, Toyonaka, Osaka-fu, Japan signed by Houston September 4, 1955

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 28 : 6

Letter from Houston, Nishinomiya, Japan to friends; distributed by the Missions Council July 23, 1951

Physical Description: typed letter signed, photocopy
Box/Folder 28 : 6

Letter from Houston, Baika Junior College, Toyonaka, Osaka-fu, Japan signed by Houston February 20, 1954

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 28 : 6

"Thoughts on Parting" Letter to students, written for E.S.S. "Echo", for English Speaking Society February 10, 1959

Box/Folder 28 : 6

Letter from Houston, Toyonaka, Osaka-fu, Japan signed by Houston December 29, 1954

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 28 : 6

Partial Letter from Houston, Nishinomiya, Japan to friends; distributed by the Missions Council July 27, 1952

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 28 : 6

Letter from Houston, Nishinomiya, Japan to friends; distributed by the Missions Council Christmas, 1951

Physical Description: typed letter signed, photocopy
Box/Folder 28 : 6

Report of the Year 1955 1955

Box/Folder 28 : 6

Letter from Houston, Toyonaka, Osaka-fu, Japan to friends Christmas, 1956

Physical Description: typed letter signed
 

Series 7 Ikenberry (E.L. and Olivia D.)

Scope and Content Note

Ernest LeRoy Ikenberry was born in Quinter, Kansas, on December 29, 1892, the son of a pioneer homesteader. After one year at Yale Divinity School, he accepted a call to serve in China. In 1922 he married Olivia Dickens. Together they served in China from 1922 to 1951.
Excerpted from China Missionaries Oral History Project: Ernest L. Ikenberry . Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, 1971.
Box/Folder 28 : 7

Facsimile of letter from Ikenberrys to friends, Church of the Brethern Mission, Ping Ting Chow, Shansi, China Christmas, 1935

Physical Description: typed letter signed, photocopy
Box/Folder 28 : 7

Facsimile of letter from Ikenberrys to friends, National Christian Council, Shanghai, O, China Christmas, 1948

Physical Description: typed letter signed, photocopy
Box/Folder 28 : 7

Facsimile of letter from Ikenberrys to "Friends in the Homeland", Taiyuan, Shansi, North China Christmas, 1929

Box/Folder 28 : 7

Facsimile of letter from Ikenberrys to friends, Taiyuan, Shansi, China Christmas, 1931

Physical Description: typed letter signed, photocopy
Box/Folder 28 : 7

Facsimile of letter from Ikenberrys to friends, Church of the Brethren Mission, Ping Ting Chow, Shansi, China Christmas, probably 1936

Physical Description: typed letter signed, photocopy
Box/Folder 28 : 7

Facsimile of letter from Ikenberrys to friends, Ping Ting Chow, Shansi, China with original handwritten Christmas, 1939

Physical Description: typed letter signed, photocopy
Box/Folder 28 : 7

Facsimile of letter from Ikenberrys to friends, Taiyuan, Shansi, China Christmas, 1930

Physical Description: typed letter signed, photocopy
Box/Folder 28 : 7

Facsimile of letter from Ikenberrys to friends, Taiyuan, Shansi, China Christmas, 1933

Physical Description: typed letter signed, photocopy
Box/Folder 28 : 8

Letter to friends, Taiyuan, Shansi, China (stone lithograph) Christmas, 1934

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 28 : 8

Letter to friends, Ping Ting Chow, Shansi, China (stone lithograph) Christmas, 1940

Physical Description: typed letter signed
 

Series 8 Jones (Francis Price)

Scope and Content Note

Frances Price Jones traveled to China with his wife, Lucile Williams Jones, in 1915 under the auspices of the Methodist Church and served until 1950.
Excerpted from China Missionaries Oral History Project: Lucile Williams Jones . Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, 1970.
Box/Folder 28 : 9

Photocopy of autobiography of Francis Price Jones undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 28 : 9

"The Church in China Today" report with handwritten notations on the first page 1955

Physical Description: typed document
 

Series 9 Kellogg (Claude R.)

Scope and Content Note

Claude Rupert Kellogg was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1886. Mr. Kellogg was in China for nearly thirty years from 1911 to 1941 with the exception of four years when he taught at the University of Massachussetts. He taught at the Anglo-American College in Foochow and Fukien Christian University. His teaching area was in zoology, but he expanded his work to do research in the needs of the area in order to improve the economy of the people.
Excerpted from Oral Missionaries Oral History Project: Claude Rupert Kellogg . Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, 1970.
Box/Folder 28 : 10

Photograph of Yu Chen at Kellogg's residence with an autographed note written on the back of the picture undated

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 28 : 10

Photocopy of certificate of appreciation for teachers, Centro Evangelico Unido, Escuela May 15, 1944

Physical Description: Metodista para
Physical Description: Diaconisas (?), Mexico
Box/Folder 28 : 10

Photocopy of "Certificate of Distinguished Service" awarded to Claude R. Kellogg for 40 years of service, Agricultural Missions, Inc. signed by James K. Mathews May 19, 1955

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 28 : 10

Christian Journal, "Rural Missions", Number 100 which includes an article on Mr. Kellogg Fall 1956

Box/Folder 28 : 10

Photograph of science class, lab undated

 

Series 10 Lingle (Jean)

Scope and Content Note

Jean Lingle was born on March 4, 1868 in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1889, age 21, she married Rev. Ellsworth G. Ritchie, whom she followed to Shandong, China that same year. Within a year of their arrival, Mrs. Jean Richardson Ritchie lost her first born (a son) and within a matter of weeks later her husband died of dysentery. She said of him that he was her "all in all." The Calvin Mateer's persuded her to stay on; unusual for a single recently widowed woman. Until 1889, she taught at the Mateer school.
It is not clear how she met he second husband, Rev. William Hill Lingle, but she married him in August 1895, probably in Shanghai.
In 1890, Rev. William Lingle married Cora Smith. After arriving in Guangdong province, China, she became very ill, and the couple returned home. Soon afterwards, Cora Smith Lingle died. William returned to China, ca. 1893. How he met and subsequently met Jean Richardson Ritchie, the evidence does not say I suspect that theirs was a "missionary marriage." Subsequently, she followed him south to Guangdong. He began "intinerating" in southern Hunan in 1898-1899. Meanwhile, Jean returned to the States extremely ill. She was pregnant with their second daughter. She gave birth to Margaret ca. 1899.
woman As a newlywed, she moved to China with her husband, Rev. William H. Lingle in 1889. The Lingles spent the next 43 years working as Presbyterian missionaries and educators in China. For a time Mrs. Lingle worked as the principle of the Fuhsiang High School for Girls.
In 1899 or 1900, she returned to China with the approval to open a nwe mission in Hunan. An interesting sidelight to Mrs. Ingle was her conversion (ultimately temporary) to Seventh Day Adventism. Because of her dalliance with Adventism, she was almost expelled for the Presbyterian Church.
In 1932 Mr. and Mrs. Lingle moved to Pasadena, California. They had two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Lingle Amos and Mrs. Dorothea Lingle Brannon. Mrs. Lingle died on September 12, 1953 at the age of 85 years old.
The bulk of the Lingle collection contains correspondence (1889-1953), writings on her experiences in China, reports from the girls middle school where Lingle worked, and photographs.
Excerpts taken from an email from Charles R. Lilley, Ph.D, adjunct professor of History at the University of Maryland July 01, 2009.
 

Sub-series 10.1 Clippings

Box/Folder 5 : 6

Newspaper clippings about the Lingles and obituaries for Rev. W.L. Lingle undated

 

Sub-series 10.2 Correspondence

Box/Folder 4 : 1

Description of correspondence undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 4 : 2

Correspondence 1889

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 3

Correspondence 1890

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 4

Correspondence 1891

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 5

Correspondence 1892

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 6

Correspondence 1893

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 7

Correspondence 1894

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 8

Correspondence 1895

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 9

Correspondence 1896

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 10

Correspondence 1899

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 11

Correspondence 1907

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 12

Correspondence 1915

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 13

Correspondence 1916

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 14

Correspondence 1922

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 15

Correspondence 1923

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 16

Correspondence 1924

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 17

Correspondence 1925

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 18

Correspondence 1926

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 19

Correspondence 1927

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 20

Correspondence 1928

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 21

Correspondence 1929

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 22

Correspondence 1930

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 23

Correspondence 1931

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 24

Correspondence 1931

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 25

Correspondence 1932

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed, typed letter
Box/Folder 4 : 26

Correspondence 1932

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 27

Correspondence 1933

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 28

Correspondence 1933

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 29

Correspondence 1933

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 30

Correspondence 1933

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed, typed letter
Box/Folder 4 : 31

Correspondence 1933

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 32

Correspondence 1935

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 33

Correspondence 1936

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 34

Correspondence 1937

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 35

Correspondence 1938

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 36

Correspondence 1941

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 37

Correspondence 1944

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 38

Correspondence 1945

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed, typed letter
Box/Folder 4 : 39

Correspondence 1946

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed, typed letter
Box/Folder 4 : 40

Correspondence 1947

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 41

Correspondence 1948

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 4 : 42

Correspondence 1949

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed, typed letter
Box/Folder 5 : 1

Correspondence 1950

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 5 : 2

Correspondence 1952

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 5 : 3

Correspondence 1953

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 5 : 4

Correspondence undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
 

Sub-series 10.3 Ephemera

Box/Folder 5 : 5

Pamphlet on Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry; page torn out of a Board of Foreign Missions undated

Physical Description: publication
Box/Folder 5 : 14

Receipt, letters in Chinese (?) undated

 

Sub-series 10.4 Photographs

Box/Folder 5 : 9

Images from China of students, servants, and home; 5 gelatin silver prints circa 1930

 

Sub-series 10.5 Reports

Box/Folder 5 : 10

Damage to mission property in communist occupation 1930

Box/Folder 5 : 11

Budget for the Fuh Siang Union Girls Middle School 1931-1932

Box/Folder 5 : 12

Statistics on Fuh Siang Union Girls Middle School 1933

Box/Folder 5 : 13

Statistics and description on Changsha Station 1932

 

Sub-series 10.6 Writings

Box/Folder 5 : 7

A review of my 43 years in China 1932

Physical Description: autograph letter
Box/Folder 5 : 8

Writings on China 1945

Physical Description: autograph letter, typed letter
 

Sub-series 10.7 Lingle (William H.)

Box/Folder 28 : 11

United China Relief News (Member Agency of National War Fund), Volume 2, Number 12 December 4, 1943

Box/Folder 28 : 11

Copy of "The "Apostle of Hunan" Station Letter, Board of Foreign Missions, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Changsha Hunan Mission Fall 1932

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 28 : 11

Photocopy of obituary of William Hill Lingle October 29, year unknown

Box/Folder 28 : 11

Photocopy of article on William H. Lingle from the New York Herald Tribune November 5, year unknown

Box/Folder 28 : 11

Map of China showing the distribution of the Missionary body 1923

Box/Folder 28 : 11

Cable Address "The Rev. William Hill Lingle, D.D., Memorial Minute, Adopted November 17, 1941 from The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Churchin the United States of America November 17, 1941

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 28 : 11

Expense summary undated

Box/Folder 28 : 11

Photocopy of "The Changsha Exodus of May 1944 by Paul R. Abbott May, 1944

Box/Folder 28 : 11

Photocopy of obituary for William H. Lingle in The Church Times (duplicate of previous obituary) November 15, year unknown

Box/Folder 28 : 11

"The "Apostle of Hunan""Station Letter, Board of Foreign Missions, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Changsha Hunan Mission Fall 1932

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 28 : 11

Handwritten notes undated

Physical Description: autograph document
 

Series 11 Luce (Henry)

Box/Folder 28 : 12

Letter from Luce published in Cheeloo University publication to friends in England, America and Australia, Hotel Stein, Tsinanfu circa 1930

Physical Description: autograph letter
 

Series 12 McCallum (James H.)

Scope and Content Note

James Henry McCallum was born in Olympia, Washington in 1893. He arrived in China in 1921, sponsored by the Christian Church, Disciples, United Christian Missionary Society. He spent most of his time from 1921-1951 in Nanking engaged in evangelical and community center work.
Excerpted from China Missionaries Oral History Program: James Henry McCallum. Oral History Program , Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California.
Box/Folder 28 : 13

Photograph of "Y.P. Summer Conference 1950", Christian Church, Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopal, Nanking, China 1950

Box/Folder 28 : 13

Summary eyewitness account of Japanese occupation of Nanking undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 28 : 13

Letter from McCallum to Mrs. Douglass at Claremont Graduate School, Oral History Program January 19, 1972

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 28 : 14

China News Letter to friends, Vol. 1, No.2, edited by Edwin Marx & Eva McCallum, Nanking May 1, 1947

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 28 : 14

China Mission News Letter: All Men are Brothers", Nanking January 1, 1949

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 28 : 14

China Newsletter: "All men are brothers", Nanking October 1, 1948

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 28 : 14

China News Letter to friends, 1947 Issue Letter, No.1, edited by Edwin Marx & Eva McCallum April 1, 1947

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 28 : 14

China Newsletter: "All men are brothers", Nanking November 1, 1948

Physical Description: typed document
 

Series 13 Potts (Anna Hortense)

Scope and Content Note

From her correspondence it seems that Potts was at the Miller Seminary in Siu Lam, via Canton, China, until 1927. The letter from 1928 was written from Kansas City.
The Potts papers include her dissertation, The Religious Education of Youth in the New China , submitted for her Master of Arts in the Department of Practical Theology at the University of Chicago in 1927.
 

Sub-series 13.1 Clippings

Box/Folder 6 : 15

Miscellaneous undated

Box/Folder 6 : 16

Newspaper circa 1943

 

Sub-series 13.2 Correspondence

Box/Folder 6 : 1

Correspondence undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 6 : 2

Correspondence 1922

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 6 : 3

Correspondence 1923

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 6 : 4

Correspondence 1924

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 6 : 5

Correspondence 1925

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 6 : 6

Correspondence 1926

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 6 : 7

Correspondence 1927

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 6 : 8

Correspondence 1928

Physical Description: typed letter signed
 

Sub-series13.3 Diaries

Box/Folder 7 : 1

Diaries undated

Box/Folder 7 : 2

Diaries 1918

Box/Folder 7 : 3

Diaries 1919

Box/Folder 7 : 4

Diaries 1920

Box/Folder 7 : 5

Diaries 1922

Box/Folder 7 : 6

Diaries 1923

Box/Folder 7 : 7

Diaries 1924

Box/Folder 7 : 8

Diaries 1925

Box/Folder 7 : 9

Diaries 1925-1927

Box/Folder 7 : 10

Diaries 1913-1914

Box/Folder 7 : 11

Diaries 1917

Box/Folder 7 : 12

Diaries 1914-1915

Box/Folder 7 : 13

Diaries 1915-1916

Box/Folder 7 : 14

Diaries 1916

 

Sub-series 13.4 Ephemera

Box/Folder 6 : 14

Miscellaneous undated

 

Sub-series 13.5 Writings

Box/Folder 6 : 9

Elements in the Present Social Experience of Chinese Students undated

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 6 : 10

Factors that give Patterns to the Present Ethical and Religious Experiences of Chinese Students undated

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 6 : 11

The New Culture Movement in Modern China undated

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 6 : 12

Suggestive Outline of Program of Religious Education for Chinese Young Women undated

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 6 : 13

The Religious Education of Youth in the New China, dissertation for M.A. from the University of Chicago 1927

Physical Description: typed document
 

Series 14 Rowley (Grace)

Scope and Content Note

Grace Rowley was born on May 1, 1887 in Valparaiso, Indiana, but spent the majority of her childhood in Southern California. She received her B.A. from Occidental College, Los Angeles, in 1910, majoring in English and Latin. In 1909, while attending a Y.W.C.A. students' she decided to become a missionary. In 1910 she was appointed by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church to the West Shantung Mission in Weihsien, China. Miss Rowley resided in Weihsien until the Japanese invasion in 1927, fleeing to Japan for several months. By the fall of 1927, Miss Rowley was able to return back to the Weihsien compound and stayed until 1932. From 1932-1941, Miss Rowley resided in Yihsien, Shantung, where she was principal of the Girls' Middle School. From 1946-1947, she worked in a hospital and taught English in the mission's school for boy in Hwaiyuan, Anhwei. In total, Miss Rowley spent over 30 years living in China as a missionary. She completed her professional life at Ming Quong Home in Los Gatos, California, where she worked from 1949-1952. Grace Rowley died on June 28, 1982 at 95 years of age.
 

Sub-series 14.1 Clippings

Box/Folder 11 : 1

"Japanese troops gently soothe the refugees." Japanese report (Shanghai, Sin Shun Pao) 1938

Box/Folder 11 : 2

"This was very sinful." Presbyterian Tribune 1938

Box/Folder 11 : 3

"China Guards its Burma Lifeline." Los Angeles Times 1941

Box/Folder 11 : 4

Clippings from scrapbook, some articles about Grace circa 1920s-1950s

Box/Folder 11 : 5

"Proof the Weihsien Presbyterian Church a False Church, Beats and Reviles People," from the True Church of Jesus, by Deaconess, Sarah Yu undated

Box/Folder 11 : 6

Miscellaneous newspaper clippings undated

Box/Folder 11 : 7

Poems, "Sometime at Eve", "The Long Long Trip by Rev. Campbell Coyle", article "Getting Ready to Move" undated

Box/Folder 11 : 8

Brief bio of Grace undated

Box/Folder 11 : 9

Chih, Chen Li, "From Waif to Journalist." The Harvester undated

Box/Folder 11 : 10

Tappan, Luella Rice, "Quicker than Radio." 1935

Box/Folder 11 : 11

Gustlin, Clarence, "America Will Fight for You! To the Brave Belgians." sheet music circa 1969

Box/Folder 11 : 12

Misc. clippings undated

Box/Folder 11 : 46

Scrapbook, miscellaneous newspaper clippings 1901-circa 1918

 

Sub-series 14.2 Diaries

Box/Folder 12 : 1

Diary 1911-1915

Box/Folder 12 : 2

Diary 1918-1922

Box/Folder 12 : 3

Diary 1923-1927

Box/Folder 12 : 4

Diary 1928-1932

Box/Folder 12 : 5

Diary 1938-1942

Box/Folder 12 : 6

Diary 1943-1947

Box/Folder 12 : 7

Diary 1948-1952

Box/Folder 12 : 8

Diary 1953-1957

Box/Folder 12 : 9

Diary 1958-1962

Box/Folder 12 : 10

Diary; on cover, "Vol. 8, Grace Rowley, November 1910-1918" 1910-1918

 

Sub-series 14.3 Letters

Box/Folder 8 : 1

Letter from Grace to her sister; letter to the Rowley's from "Mother" 1902

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 2

Letters from Grace to her mother 1906, 1908

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 3

Letter from Grace to her mother 1909

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 4

Letters from Grace to her mother, sister, and friends 1910

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 5

Christmas scroll letter from Grace to her family 1910

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 6

Letter from Edna Blee to her mother telling of Grace's departure for China from San Francisco 1910

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 7

Correspondence between Grace and the Board of Foreign Missions 1910

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 8

Letters from Grace to her mother and friends 1911

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 9

Letters from Grace to her mother and friends 1912

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 10

Christmas scroll letter from Grace to her family 1912

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 11

Postcards from Jerusalem 1913

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 12

Letters from Grace to her mother and friends 1914

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter
Box/Folder 8 : 13

Letters from Grace to her mother and friends 1916

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 14

Letter from Grace to her mother 1917

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 15

Letters from Grace to her mother 1918

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 16

Letters from Grace to her mother and friends 1919

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 17

Letters from Grace to her mother 1920

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 18

Letter from Grace to her mother 1921

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 19

Letter from Grace to her mother 1923

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 20

Letters to Grace from nephew 1924

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 21

Letter to Mr. Wells & Miss Rankin from the officers and pupils' parents of the school 1924

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 22

Letter to Grace from Peking University 1925

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 23

Letters from Grace to her mother 1926

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 8 : 24

Letters from Grace to her mother, Hazel, and Miss Rolley; Letters to Grace from Liu Djin King of Weihsien Middle School and Blauch L. Dolph 1927

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 1

Correspondence from the Board of Foreign Missions to Grace's family and friends; Letter to Grace's mother from George T. Scott and Ruth Elliot 1927

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 2

Letters, receipts, and certificates for travel 1927

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 3

Letters from Grace to her mother 1928

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 4

Letters from Grace to her mother 1929

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 5

Letters from Grace to her mother 1930

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 6

Letters from Grace to her mother and friends; letter to Grace from nephew Billy 1931

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 7

Circular letter from the Unevangelized African Missions 1931

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 9 : 8

Letters from Grace to her mother and friends 1932

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 9

Letters from Grace to her mother 1933

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 10

Letters from Grace to her mother 1934

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 11

Letters from Grace to her mother 1935

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 12

Circular letter from the American Presbyterian Mission, Tsinan (East Suburb), North China 1935

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 9 : 13

Letters from Grace to her mother 1936

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 14

Letters from Grace to her mother; Letters to Grace from E. H. Chang 1937

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 15

Circular letter from Grace, 1937 1937

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 16

Letter from Grace's mother to her children, will & funeral arrangements for her own death, 1937 1937

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 17

Letters from Grace to her mother and to Ruth Brack; letter to Grace from Madge D. Mateer, from her mother, from K. W. Wilson, and from Wai Haipe 1938

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 18

Correspondence between Grace's mother and the Board of Foreign Missions 1938

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 19

Letter to Chinese children, from San Diego Mexican Presbyterian Church 1938

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 20

Circular letter from the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church 1938

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 9 : 21

Letters from Grace to her mother 1939

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 22

Letters from Grace to her mother; Letters to Grace from Grace's mother, from Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Eisenberg; Circular letter from Rev. Ralph Hindman, First Presbyterian Church, and from the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church 1940

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter
Box/Folder 9 : 23

Letters from Grace to her mother; Letters to Grace from Grace's mother and from Neetie 1941

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 24

Letters from Charles V. Reeder, Wei Hien, Shantung, China 1941

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 9 : 25

Letter from Grace's mother to friends of the Missionary Society 1941

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 26

Circular letters from Alma S. Dodds, from Mrs. Ralph C. Wells, and from Ruth A. Brack 1941

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 9 : 27

Letters to Grace from Art Baker, from Deane, from anonymous, from Kay, from Mary Kay, from Neetie, and from Lloyd S. Ruland 1942

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 9 : 28

Circular letters from Viola C. Hill, from Horace G. Hill, Jr., from Ruth A. Brack, and from Elizabeth Small 1942

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 9 : 29

Letter to the YMCA from H. Lockwood, Kukong, Kwangtung 1942

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 10 : 1

Letters and card to Grace from friends 1943

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 2

Letters to Grace from friends 1944

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 3

Circular letters from Nettie D. Junkin, Bombay, India 1938 -1944

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 4

Letters to Grace from friends 1945

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 5

Circular letters 1945

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 6

Letters to Grace's mother from various people regarding Grace 1911-1952

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 7

Letters from Grace to her mother while in Weihsien, Shantung, China undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 8

Letters from Weihsien, Shantung, China (continued) undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 9

Letters from Grace to her mother while in Tsin [Jinan], China undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 10

Letters from Grace to her mother while in Tsingtao, China undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 11

Letters to Grace in Chinese from Tsingtao undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 12

Letters from Grace to her mother while in Yihsien, Shantung, China undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 13

Letters from Grace to her mother while in Japan undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 14

Letters from Grace to her mother while in Paris, France undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 15

Letter in Chinese to Grace, Santa Ana, California undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 16

Letters from Grace to her mother while in Delaware, USA undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 17

Circular letter from Dr. H. F. Johnson, Carlisle, Pennsylvania undated

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 10 : 18

Letters to Grace from students undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 19

Letters and writings in Chinese, Christmas letter from student, letter from minister, undated undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 20

Correspondence, business cards, and receipts from merchants circa 1913-1939

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 21

Letters undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 10 : 22

Materials relating to Grace Rowley from Prof. Chen's file circa 1947-1950

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter
 

Sub-series 14.4 Miscellaneous

Box/Folder 11 : 29

Shantung Mission Table of Statistics 1940

Box/Folder 11 : 30

Application for traveling certificate by railway, to Yihsien undated

Box/Folder 11 : 31

Application materials (blank) for the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church undated

Box/Folder 11 : 32

Receipt for life insurance from the Board of Foreign Missions 1945

Box/Folder 11 : 33

Hand-made paper dolls from China undated

Box/Folder 11 : 34

Childhood ephemera: lock of hair, certificate from Orange County Public Schools (1898), 2 paper dolls (1891) circa 1890s

Box/Folder 11 : 35

Vegetable paper undated

Box/Folder 11 : 36

Hand colored Chinese card and illustration; paper image cut out of a man (used for funeral procession) undated

Box/Folder 11 : 37

Japanese prayers undated

Box/Folder 11 : 38

Menu in Chinese undated

Box/Folder 11 : 39

Name list for gift of a Chinese painting of a folklore story (in Chinese) undated

Box/Folder 11 : 40

Permission slip to enter the gate of the North Sea (in Chinese) 1917

Box/Folder 11 : 41

Hand drawn map of living quarters undated

Box/Folder 11 : 42

Oral history. Missionary in China. Grace Rowley interviewed by Mary Louise Armstrong 1942

Box/Folder 11 : 43

Miscellaneous materials undated

Box/Folder 11 : 44

Notebook, notes from Radio News undated

Box/Folder 11 : 45

Notebook circa 1956

Box/Folder 16

Poster, calendar in English and Chinese 1925

Box/Folder 16

Handmade student gift, map of China undated

Box/Folder 16

Announcement of exhibit featuring ceremonial and musical instruments to be displayed in the Temple of 1924

 

Sub-series 14.5 Pamphlets

Box/Folder 11 : 13

Thanksgiving dinner 1915

Box/Folder 11 : 14

Hunan Mission, 1939-1940, Hui Nan (Shining Trouble) undated

Box/Folder 11 : 15

Chinese Industrial Cooperatives Northwest Headquarters First Year Reports. Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, Hong Kong 1940

Box/Folder 11 : 16

In Memorandum: John Cornelius Stam and Elisabeth Alden Stam circa 1935

Box/Folder 11 : 17

900,000 Eyes Look to You, United China Relief, Inc. undated

Box/Folder 11 : 18

The Jew First, Free Tract Society, (Inc.), Los Angeles undated

Box/Folder 11 : 19

The Quarterly Bulletin of the Shanghai Hebrew Mission. Vol. 1, no. 3 1940

Box/Folder 11 : 20

Kuan, T.C., Helping the Christian Home in the Southwest. Reprint from the Chinese Recorder December 1940

Box/Folder 11 : 21

Christian Ministry in Embattled Cities of China 1942

Box/Folder 11 : 22

Since 1883, the Uplifted Christ. The Presbyterian Mission, Weihsien Shantung circa 1933

Box/Folder 11 : 23

A Record of American Presbyterian Mission Work in Shantung Province, China, 2nd ed., 1861-1913 circa 1913

Box/Folder 11 : 24

Yihsien Station Report, 1932-1933 circa 1933

Box/Folder 11 : 25

Yihsien Speaks, Station Report, 1937-1938 circa 1938

Box/Folder 11 : 26

A Year of Growth in the Seven Churches. Yihsien Station Report, 1938-1939 circa 1939

Box/Folder 11 : 27

Ely, Lois Anna, Broadcast Bulletin of the National Christian Council of China. Series V, no. 26, 31, 34, 36-39 1941

Box/Folder 11 : 28

Statement of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mission on its Attitude Toward the Doctrinal Soundness of Missionaries. The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1921 1921

 

Sub-series 14.6 Photographs

Box/Folder 16

Oversize photographs, group portraits circa 1920s-1930s

 

Sub-series 14.7 Photographs, postcards, and negatives

Box/Folder 13

Photographs of Rowley's travels, mostly in China undated

Box/Folder 14

Photographs and postcards of Rowley's travels, mostly in China undated

Box/Folder 15

Postcards and negatives of Rowley's travels, mostly in China undated

 

Sub-series 14.8 Writings

Box/Folder 10 : 23

Miscellaneous notes undated

Physical Description: autograph document, typed document
Box/Folder 10 : 24

A Few Incidents from the week of Miss Yen Mei Ying and Mrs. Chang Shu Jen, East Suburb of Wehisen City 1923

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 10 : 25

Yihsien Station Report 1936-1937

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 10 : 26

Events in Yihsien, May 4th to June 15th 1938

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 10 : 27

Yihsien, February 26th 1939

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 10 : 28

Evangelistic Report, Yihsien, Shantung, 1940-1941 1940-1941

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 10 : 29

Report of the Ling Kwang Dao Yuen for 1940-1941 1940-1941

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 10 : 30

Yihsien Station Report 1941-1942 1941-1942

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 10 : 31

Mother Shipmaus Prophecy, 1641 undated

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 10 : 32

To the Occidental College Girls undated

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 10 : 33

Finding a Life undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 10 : 34

Story Telling, by Djang Ai Dei, Hospital Bible Woman undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 10 : 35

Some items concerning the medical work of early years of Weihsien Station undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 10 : 36

Disbound notebook. Notes on the Weihsien third large conference for women and the dedication of the memorial to Dr. R.M. Mateer; description of "opposites in China"; "in memory of Dr. Mary Brown"; "Details of Sermon on Nehenian"; "A Miracle Working God in Shantung"; miscellaneous writings undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 10 : 37

Papers from notebook in Box 10, Folder 36. Notes, letters undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 10 : 38

Inventory, "List of articles found on our kitchen shelf" undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 10 : 39

Notes for speech undated

Physical Description: autograph document
 

Series 15 Scott (Roderick)

Scope and Content Note

Roderick Scott was born July 12, 1885 in Auburn, New York. Dr. Scott received his A.B. from Haverford College in 1906 and his M.A. in 1907 graduating cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. His majors were English and Philosophy. He studied at University of Southern California 1939-140 and 1946, receiving his Ph.D. in the field of Chinese philosophy. While on furlough in 1921-22 and 1930 he studied at the Union Theological Seminary, New York. He received an honorary D.D. from the Pacific School f Religion in 1940.
Throughout his career in China from 1916-1951 he was located at Foochow, Fukien, at the Fukien Christian University where he was Professor of English and Philosophy and for twelve years the Dean.
He has published the book Fukien Christian University: A History , published by the United Board of Missions, New York, 1934; and a report for the Madras missionary conference of 1938 together with Dr. T. C. Chao.
Dr. Scott died September 2, 1971
Excerpted text from: China Missionaries Oral History Project: Roderick Scott . Interview by Cyrus H. Peake and Arthur L. Rosenbaum. Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School. Claremont, California: 1969, 1973.
 

Sub-series 15.1 Biographical

Box/Folder 17 : 1

Educator in China is Guest Speaker at Church Sunday 1942

Box/Folder 17 : 2

"Christianity and Democracy in China", The Christian Sun February 23, 1950

Box/Folder 17 : 3

"What Moves China?", by Dorothy P. Cushing, Advance May 1946

Box/Folder 17 : 4

"Congregational Missionary Explains Chinese Communists", by Dororth P. Cushing, The Christian Sun December 6, 1945

 

Sub-series 15.2 Chinese music

Box/Folder 17 : 5

"Chinese Music", by Mrs. Timothy Richards, for The Chinese Recorder July/August 1890

Box/Folder 17 : 6

"Origins of Chinese Music", by Marjorie Spickler Cavanagh, The Chinese Recorder undated

Box/Folder 17 : 7

Grant Us Thy Light, by Rev. T.K. Chiu 1932

Box/Folder 17 : 8

The Four Seasons and The Fisherman Paddling at Dawn, by Samuel Chu-san Ting undated

Box/Folder 17 : 9

Heralds Choral Society program 1966

Box/Folder 17 : 10

The Pagoda, 13 Chinese Songs 1946

Box/Folder 17 : 50

Fukien University spring concert program 1935

 

Sub-series 15.3 Fukien Christian University

Box/Folder 18 : 1

Philosophy 1 Syllabus, by Roderick Scott 1926

Box/Folder 18 : 2

Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Fund undated

Physical Description: booklet
Box/Folder 18 : 3

Song book for FCU undated

Box/Folder 18 : 4

Music programs of FCU 1949-1958

Box/Folder 18 : 5

Glee Club and Christmas carol programs, FCU 1925-1948

Box/Folder 18 : 6

Foochow names Fall 1948

 

Sub-series 15.4 Manuscripts

Box/Folder 17 : 44

The Christian Imperative and World Missions 1954

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 17 : 45

Intellectualizing Missions undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 17 : 46

The Communists and the Christian Colleges in China undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 17 : 47

A Christian Perspective in China undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 17 : 48

Advance Through Storm 1945

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 17 : 49

Compostition Teaching formula undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 17 : 51

"The Unknown God," sermon 1927

Physical Description: autograph and typed document
Box/Folder 17 : 52

The Future of Christianity undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 17 : 53

"Why They Act like Communists" (outline) undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 17 : 54

"World Security and the Far East", speech at the Free World Forum, Scripps College 1951

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 17 : 55

"Formosa in World Affairs", speech at International Relations Series, Scripps College 1952

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 17 : 56

China Explained 1945

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 17 : 57

"Christianity for the Day in China", notes on a seminar 1949

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 17 : 58

"What hope for China? The Truth about China", undated undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 17 : 59

Men and Missions undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 17 : 60

Views of Old China Hand on American Foreign Policy in the Far East undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 17 : 61

The Significance of the Christian College in China's Hour of Reconstruction undated

Physical Description: typed document
 

Sub-series 15.5 Miscellaneous

Box/Folder 18 : 8

miscellaneous materials undated

 

Sub-series 15.6 Photographs

Box/Folder 18 : 7

Miu River; newar Fukien Christian University campus, Foochow, China undated

 

Sub-series 15.7 Publications

Box/Folder 17 : 11

"What is Happening in China Today?" by Roderick Scott, article in the Missionary Herald, November 1949 1949

Box/Folder 17 : 12

"Evangelism: An Inquiry" by Roderick Scott, reprinted from The Chinese Recorder November 1938

Box/Folder 17 : 13

"The Responsibility of the Church for Education the Church and the School" by Roderick Scott, reprinted from Educational Review November 1938

Box/Folder 17 : 14

"The Christian Movement in China in a Period of National Transition" by Roderick Scott, Part I The National Transition , Part II The Responsibility of the Church undated

Box/Folder 17 : 15

"The Church and the National Crises" by Roderick Scott, The Chinese Recorder October 1937

Box/Folder 17 : 16

"A Missionary's Philosophy of Mission" by Roderick Scott, from The Chinese Recorder July 1932

Box/Folder 17 : 17

"China Needs Religion, Not Culture" by Roderick Scott, from The Chinese Recorder October 1932

Box/Folder 17 : 18

An Impressive Service: The Story of Christian Colleges of China undated

Box/Folder 17 : 19

"What I have Learned" by Roderick Scott 1966

Box/Folder 17 : 20

"Communism faces Christ in China" by Roderick Scott, The Missionary Herald May 1950

Box/Folder 17 : 21

"Sacred Tongue of God" by Agnes Scott, Foochow Messenger, American Board Publication 1935

Box/Folder 17 : 22

"Widen our Bridges in China" by Roderick Scott, Pilgrim Frontier September 1945

Box/Folder 17 : 23

"Culture is not Enough, Religion is the Missionary Objective" by Roderick Scott August 31, 1933

Box/Folder 17 : 24

"A Missionary Answers a Journalist" by Roderick Scott July 1932

Box/Folder 17 : 25

"Imponderables in the Manchurian Situation" by Roderick Scott November 1931

Box/Folder 17 : 26

"Will Communism Win China?" by Roderick Scott, The Churchman March 1950

Box/Folder 17 : 27

"Crisis and Opportunity in China" by Roderick Scott, The Christian Sun October 1949

Box/Folder 17 : 28

"China's Hopes" by Roderick Scott, Advance June 1946

Box/Folder 17 : 29

"China's Greatest Need" by Roderick Scott, The Missionary Herald January 1923

Box/Folder 17 : 30

"The Vocabulary Entrance Test in use at Fukien Christian University" by Roderick Scott, Educational Review probably 1916

Box/Folder 17 : 30

"The Need of Thinking" by Roderick Scott, Educational Review probably 1914

Box/Folder 17 : 31

"The Christian Colleges of China, Ask a Question" by Roderick Scott, Christian Education January 1932

Box/Folder 17 : 32

The Christian Movement in China in a Period of National Transition, by T.C. Chao, R.O. Hall, and Roderick 1938

Box/Folder 17 : 33

"An American Professor in a Refugee Chinese College" by Roderick Scott, School and Society December 1941

Box/Folder 17 : 34

"Re-thinking Missions: The First Four Chapters" by Roderick Scott probably May 1933

Box/Folder 17 : 35

"A Christian Perspective on China" by Roderick Scott, The Chicago Theological Seminary Register undated

Box/Folder 17 : 36

"The Future of Christianity in China" by Roderick Scott, Around the Clock February 1951

Box/Folder 17 : 37

"Revolution in the Kingdom of Thought" by Roderick Scott probably 1932

Box/Folder 17 : 38

"What I think about American Churches" by Roderick Scott, The Missionary Herald 1932

Box/Folder 17 : 39

A Report on Korean Urban Church Situation May 1962

Box/Folder 17 : 40

"Our Seminaries and the Study of Missions" by Roderick Scott undated

Box/Folder 17 : 41

"The United Nations and the Missionary Movement" by Roderick Scott, reprint from Advance April 1950

Box/Folder 17 : 42

Pamphlets from the Anti-Cobweb Club, Rotary Club of Foochow, The American Association, and the Claremont Church 1938-1946

Box/Folder 17 : 43

"The God-Sakers" by Roderick Scott, Foochow Messenger Winter 1938

 

Series 16 Shepherd (Clara Sargent)

Scope and Content Note

Clara Sargent Shepherd was born in St. Paul Minnesota in 1889. She traveled to China in 1919, living in Nanking, Kuling, and Peking.
Box/Folder 28 : 15

Photocopy of a manuscript "Yours In the Bonds of Love", written by Clara Sargent Shepherd and George W. Shepherd, foreword written by Shirley Brower Shepherd October 8, 1965

Physical Description: typed document
 

Series 17 Simkin (Robert and Margaret)

Scope and Content Note

Margaret Timberlake Simkin was born in Lancaster, New Hampshire on September 6, 1892. She received her B.A. in philosophy and religion from Earlham College, graduating with honors in 1922. In 1923 she earned an M.A. in education from Teachers College from Columbia University. She then studied at the Hartford Graduate School from 1931-1932. In 1923 she married Robert Louis Simkin who had been serving in China since 1906. He was born in 1879 in New York. He graduated from Harverfort College and also received advanced degrees from Haverford Teachers College and Union Theological Seminary. He taught religion at West China Union University in Chengtu, China for the duration of his career. During this time Mrs. Simkin was a homemaker with brief periods working as a librarian and teacher until 1944. They were both Quaker missionaries at the West China Union University. After leaving China, Mrs. Simkin worked as the co-director of Woolman House on the University of Southern California campus, from 1945-1950. Mr. and Mrs. Simkin had two daughters. Mr. Simkin died in 1958 while the couple was living in Los Angeles. Mrs. Simkin died in 1993 at 101 years old.
 

Sub-series 17.1 Correspondence

Box/Folder 19

Condensations of and excerpts from Mr. Simkin's letters 1956

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 19

Copy of letter written to friends from Mr. Simkin, Chengtu, West China 1926

Physical Description: typed letter
 

Sub-series 17.2 Maps

Box/Folder 19

Map of West China Union Univeristy, Chengtu, Szechwan March 1922

Physical Description: map
 

Sub-series 17.3 Photographs

Box/Folder 19

West China Union University, Chengtu, Szechwan, American Methodist College Buildings undated

Physical Description: photograph
Box/Folder 19

Dormitories of the American Methodist Episcopal Mission at the West China Union University, Chengtu undated

Physical Description: photograph
Box/Folder 19

"Wu-tung" trees, Chengtu?, Szechwan, China undated

Physical Description: photograph
Box/Folder 19

Group portrait of Friends High School circa 1916

Physical Description: photograph
Box/Folder 19

Chinese woman's bare (bound) foot undated

Physical Description: photograph
Box/Folder 19

Western China Union University, Chemistry Laboratory undated

Physical Description: photograph
Box/Folder 19

Group portrait of Szechwan yearly meeting of Friends at Tungchwan 1908

Physical Description: photograph
Box/Folder 19

United Church of Canada Hospital, Chengtu, West China undated

Physical Description: photograph
Box/Folder 19

Group portrait, religious conference at West China Union University 1913

Physical Description: photograph
Box/Folder 19

Group portrait of missionaries who did not evacuate Chengtu during the Anti-Christian Crisis (includes Robert, Margaret, and Dorothy Simkin) January 1927

Physical Description: photograph
Box/Folder 19

Group portrait of officials in Chengtu a few weeks after the establishment of the Revolution 1912

Physical Description: photograph
Box/Folder 19

Native cobbler, West China undated

Physical Description: photograph
Box/Folder 19

Suining city on the Jialin River with the Friends Hospital Compound in foreground undated

Physical Description: photograph
Box/Folder 19

Views of Chungking undated

Physical Description: photograph
Box/Folder 19

Bulk of photographs are unidentifies snapshots taken in China undated

Physical Description: photograph
Box/Folder 19

Boys high school sports at Friends High School 1907

Physical Description: photograph
 

Sub-series 17.4 Postcards

Box/Folder 19

Coffin shop, Chungking, China undated

Physical Description: postcard
Box/Folder 19

Plowing in the Rice Fields with a water buffalo, Shanghai, China undated

Physical Description: postcard
 

Sub-series 17.5 Publications

Box/Folder 19

A Life for Many. Friends Service Council, London, N.W.1 undated

Box/Folder 19

"Five Hundred Miles by Junk", by Robert Simkin, The West China Missionary News undated

Box/Folder 19

Copy of The China Colleges, Vol. 5, No. 2 (November 1938) 1938

Box/Folder 19

Copy of campus map, West China Union University 1938

Box/Folder 19

West China Union University, Chengtu, Szechwan, reprint from the Builder circa 1924

 

Sub-series 17.6 Writings

Box/Folder 19

In Pearls of Rivers, Mrs. Simkin's first trip to China 1923

Physical Description: typed document
 

Sub-series 17.7 Separated materials

 

Shelved with the China Missionaries Oral History Project: Margaret Timberlake Simkin . Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, 1971. Hon Spcl XC 14 OR24 SI45, are archival materials marked "Simkin letters and material to be read with interview." These items are still shelved with the oral history but are itemized in this sub-series

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 Gowdy, Elizabeth, Szechwan Revisited circa 1935

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 "Chengtu, West China, Dear Friends at Home", by Margaret T. Simkin [photo copy, unknown source] 1935

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 "Chengtu, West China, Dear Friends", by Robert Simkin [unknown source] 1935

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 "West China Union University, Chengtu, Szechwan, West China, Dear Friends", by Margaret Simkin [unknown source] 1937

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 "Chengtu, West China, Letter No. 7, Dear Friends", by Robert Simkin [unknown source] 1937

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 Excerpts of letters from Robert Simkin February and May 1956

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 Yang, S.C. "The Revolution in Szechwan, 1911-12," The Journal of the West China Border Research Society 1934

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 Campus map of West China Union University 1938

Physical Description: [photo copy]
 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45

Physical Description: "A Life for Many," Friends Service Council, London, NW 1
 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 Adams, A.G., "In Perils of Rivers," The China Recorder, circa 1923 circa 1923

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 Simkin, Margaret and Robert L., "Five Hundred Miles by Junk" 1932-1933

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 "At Sea in War Time", by Robert Simkin 1942

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 The Builder, a Journal for the Architect and Constructor, devoted to the West China Union University, undated undated

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 Bell, Mrs. Gerald, "They Come--the Japanese" 1939

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 "A Decade of Medical Relief During War, Pestilence," Quaker Service Bulletin (covering years of World War II) Fall 1971

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 The China Colleges, bulletin, November 1938, New York: Associated Boards for Christian Colleges in China 1938

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 Chiang, Newton. On Foot to Freedom: A Diary of Experiences During the Sino-Japanese War. Canadian Mission Press, Chengtu, West China 1939

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 Upcraft, William. The Escape From Yachow, China, Chung King, June 30, 1895 1895

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 "We Didn't Ask a Joy Cruise", by Margaret Simkin 1942

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 Proceedings of the Committee on Church Union in West China 1909

 

Shelved with XC 14 OR24 SI45 Report Committee on Church Union in West China

 

Series 18 Smythe (Lewis S. C.)

Scope and Content Note

Lewis Strong Casey Smythe was born in Washington, D.C., in 1901. He went to Nanking in 1928 under the United Christian Missionary Society. He was appointed a Professor of Sociology at the Nanking University, which position he held until 1951
Excerpted from China Missionaries Oral History Project: Lewis S. C. Smythe . Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, 1971.
Box/Folder 29 : 1

A Theological Basis for Cultural Change, paper and 4 black and white photographs of weavers June 30, 1960

Physical Description: typed document
 

Series 19 Steurt (Marjorie Rankin)

Scope and Content Note

Marjorie Rankin Steurt was born October 8, 1888 in Penfield, Pennsylvania. She finished her B.A. at Mount Holyoke and an M.A. and Ph.D. in educational psychology and counseling from Teachers College, Columbia University.
In 1912 Mrs. Steurt arrived in China as a missionary, sponsored by the Presbyterian Mission Board. In Weihsien from 1912-1919, Mrs. Steurt taught at a girls high school, acting as principal for one year. During this time she supervised 40 country schools and started an experimental school in Tsingtau. For the following several years, Mrs. Steurt taught in Weihsien at the boys high school, and then at a school in Ichowfu.
From 1926-1927, Mrs. Steurt was head of the English department in Cheeloo University in Tsinanfu, the capital of Shentung. Due to the Nanking Massacre, a communist student uprising in 1927 she held this position for less than one year. All foreigners were ordered to the coast and Mrs. Steurt traveled back to the United States where she continued with her graduate studies in personnel and psychology at the Teachers College at Columbia University.
Mrs. Steurt was able to return to China in 1929 when she became the director of an experiment school in one of the big government universities, Nankai, in Tientsin. In 1932 the university was destroyed by the Japanese and Mrs. Steurt moved back to the United States.
1934 -1937 Mrs. Steurt was head of the psychology department and dean of students at Monmouth Junior College at Long Branch, New Jersey. In 1937 Mrs. Steurt married Roy Steurt. Marjorie Steurt died in 1978.
Box/Folder 36

Images from China, including gelatin silver prints (some hand colored), newspaper clippings, and postcards undated

Box/Folder 26 : 8

Academic regalia undated

 

Sub-series 19.1 Biographical Materials

Box/Folder 22 : 1

Short biographies of Rankin Steurt undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 2

List of towns visited by Rankin undated

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 22 : 3

Steurt Rankin's Passport circa 1929-1933

Box/Folder 22 : 4

Soldier's Permanent Pass for Roy Steurt and article on Roy Steurt circa 1947

 

Sub-series 19.2 Booklets

Box/Folder 22 : 53

Recipes for Chinese Food undated

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 22 : 54

A Long Step Ahead: Mr. Liu at Work in Ankiu. From 1915

Physical Description: booklet
 

Sub-series 19.3 Correspondence

Box/Folder 22 : 5

Letter to mother 1908

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 6

Letter to mother 1909

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 7

Letters to family 1913

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 22 : 8

Letters to family 1914

Physical Description: typed letters, some signed
Box/Folder 22 : 9

Letter to mother 1915

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 10

Letters to family 1916

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 11

Letter from storekeeper regarding grocery order 1916

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 12

Letters from Liu Gwang Djao (worker of the Mission Board) 1916-1917

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter
Box/Folder 22 : 13

Letters to family and friends 1917

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 14

Letters to family and friends 1918

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 22 : 15

Letters to family and friends 1919

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter
Box/Folder 22 : 16

Letters to family 1921

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 17

Letters to family and friends 1922

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed, typed letter
Box/Folder 22 : 18

Letters from Union Normal School and National Association for the Advancement of Education in Peking 1922

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 19

Letters to family and friends 1923

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 20

Letter to Mr. Young regarding the Piqua Church refusing to support Rankin Steurt and longer circa 1923-1924

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 22 : 21

Letter of resignation from Weihsien Girls High School 1923

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 22 : 22

Letters to family and friends 1924

Physical Description: typed letters, some signed
Box/Folder 22 : 23

Letters to family and friends 1925

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 22 : 24

Letter to Mr. Wells and Mr. Fong typed letter

Physical Description: 1925
Box/Folder 22 : 25

Letters to family and friends 1926

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed, typed letter
Box/Folder 22 : 26

Letter from Liu Sung Tang 1926

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 27

Letter from Rev. Liu Gwang Djao 1926

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 28

Letter to the Director of Field Work, Union Theological Seminary, New York City 1926

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 22 : 29

Letters to Mr. Trull and Grace Rowley 1926

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 22 : 30

Letters to family and friends 1927

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed, typed letter
Box/Folder 22 : 31

Letter of resignation, Weihsien Station 1926

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 22 : 32

Letters to and from Richard Hanson 1927

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 33

Letter from Irving Lorge of the Teacher's College, New York 1928

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 34

Letter from Tsing Tan China 1928

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 35

Letters to family and friends 1929

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 36

Letters to family and friends 1930

Physical Description: typed letters, some signed
Box/Folder 22 : 37

Letter to Dr. Kilpatrick 1930

Physical Description: typed letter
Box/Folder 22 : 38

Letter from the China Christian Educational Association 1932

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 39

Letter of recommendation written by the Head Master of Tower Hill School, Delaware 1932

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 40

Letters to family 1933

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 41

Letter to Steurt from Carleton Washburn of Winnetka Public Schools, Illinois 1933

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 42

Letters to family 1934

Physical Description: typed letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 43

Letters to Lois Ely 1965-1970

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter
Box/Folder 22 : 44

Letters to family undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed, typed letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 45

Letter to the Missionaries (in Chinese) from Li Bai Chung (possibly a worker) undated

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 22 : 46

Statement about Steurt from her father, J.J. Rankin undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 47

Letter to Mr. Smith undated

Physical Description: typed letter
 

Sub-series 19.4 Diaries

Box/Folder 20 : 1

Diary 1917

Box/Folder 20 : 2

Diary 1911-1995

Box/Folder 20 : 3

Diary 1930 -1932

Box/Folder 20 : 4

Diary 1924

Box/Folder 20 : 5

Diary undated

Box/Folder 20 : 6

Diary 1925-1929

Box/Folder 20 : 7

Diary 1923

Box/Folder 20 : 8

Diary 1918-1923

Box/Folder 21 : 1

Diary 1935

Box/Folder 21 : 2

Diary 1937

Box/Folder 21 : 3

Diary 1938

Box/Folder 21 : 4

Diary 1939

Box/Folder 21 : 5

Diary 1936-1940

Box/Folder 21 : 6

Diary 1940

Box/Folder 21 : 7

Diary 1942

Box/Folder 21 : 8

Diary 1943

Box/Folder 21 : 9

Diary 1945

Box/Folder 21 : 10

Diary 1946

Box/Folder 21 : 11

Notebook, mostly names and addresses with some clippings and notes circa 1930 -1945

Box/Folder 21 : 12

Notes from "yearbook" diary 1938

Box/Folder 21 : 13

Map of Tientsin, undated, from "Scribble Book" diary 1936-1940

Box/Folder 21 : 14

Article about Rankin Steurt, from "Scribble Book" diary circa 1936-1940

Box/Folder 21 : 15

Notes from "Scribble Book" diary 1936-1940

Box/Folder 21 : 16

Notes from "The Everyday" diary 1939

Box/Folder 21 : 17

Family photographs from "The Everyday" diary in 1935

Box/Folder 21 : 18

Letters to Rankin Steurt from Wilma, 1936, from "Scribble Book diary 1936 -1940

Box/Folder 21 : 19

Photograph of a man, undated, from "Scribble Book" diary 1936-1940

Box/Folder 21 : 20

Article clipping about Rankin Steurt, from "The Everyday" diary 1935

Box/Folder 21 : 21

Photograph of a man from "The Business Yearbook" diary 1946

Box/Folder 23 : 16

Diary 1915

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 23 : 17

Diary 1916

Box/Folder 23 : 18

Diary 1917

Box/Folder 23 : 19

Diary 1919

Box/Folder 23 : 20

Diary 1921

Box/Folder 23 : 21

Notebook with teaching notes and activities undated

Box/Folder 23 : 30

Notebook filled with poetry 1924-1929

Box/Folder 23 : 31

Diary with clippings and card 1929-1931

Box/Folder 23 : 32

Diary with newspaper clippings 1930-1931

Box/Folder 23 : 33

Diary 1931

Box/Folder 23 : 34

Diary 1930-1931

Box/Folder 27 : 1

Travel diary 1911-1931

 

Sub-series 19.5 Ephemera

Box/Folder 23 : 27

Postal map of China 1920

Box/Folder 23 : 28

Map of the city of Tsinan, Shantung, China undated

Box/Folder 23 : 35

Miscellaneous materials undated

 

Sub-series 19.6 Newspaper clippings

Box/Folder 22 : 48

Clippings that inspired the story "Heads I Win" by Steurt and Burke undated

Physical Description: photocopy of typed document
 

Sub-series 19.7 Photographs

Box/Folder 24

Images from China, including gelatin silver prints (some hand colored), hand colored glass lantern slides, and undated

Box/Folder 25 : 1

Scrapbook of early years, mostly college 1904-1914

Box/Folder 25 : 2

Scrapbook of photographs, China and the United States circa 1919

Box/Folder 25 : 3

Loose scrapbook pages, photographs from California, Massachusetts 1897-1899

 

Sub-series 19.8 Publications

Box/Folder 23 : 22

The Wei Hsien Rag 1916

Box/Folder 23 : 23

Letters to a Primary School Teacher, Nakai Experimental School 1931

Box/Folder 23 : 24

A Long Step Ahead, Mr. Liu at Work in Ankur, from a letter of Miss Marjorie Rankin 1915

Box/Folder 23 : 25

Foreign Crops and Markets, v.1, no. 26 December 1929

Box/Folder 23 : 26

Clipping from The Far Eastern Review 1930

 

Sub-series 19.9 Reports

Box/Folder 22 : 49

Conditions in girl's country schools 1922

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 50

Comparison of exams, Compound Primary School 1923-1924

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 22 : 51

School testings 1923

Physical Description: typed document with autograph anotations
Box/Folder 22 : 52

Hand writing analysis of Rankin Steurt 1924

Physical Description: typed document
 

Sub-series 19.10 Writings

Box/Folder 22 : 55

Weihsien [introduction to sketches] 1912-1926

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 56

Description of fighting between northern and southern armies at Weihsien 1916

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 57

Wang Lu: On the great road from Weihsien to Chefoo 1917

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 58

A Trip up Taishan 1918

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 59

July 16: Kobe, gifu circa 1918

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 60

Trip to Lo-an 1920

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 61

Trip to Nikko 1922

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 62

[Travels to Pang-wang, Yao-wer, Deng-tswn] 1922

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 63

A Prohibition of Killing Animals, by Liur. Huang Lien Tu-Chun ya-man, Tsinanfu 1923

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 64

Ichow-fu [introduction to sketches] 1924-1925

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 65

Trip to Ichowfu 1924

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 22 : 66

Thanksgiving Day [poem], Ichowfu 1924

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 67

The Children's Church as run for half a year at Weihsien, Shantung circa 1923-1924

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 68

Mysterious, awe-inspiring, grand [poem] 1924

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 69

The Ichowfu Gossip [poem] 1924

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 70

My Personal Experience at the Fall of Nankin, by Edwin Marx circa 1924-1925

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 71

Book review of Teaching Elementary Arithmetic 1925

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 72

Tsinafu [introduction to sketches] 1926

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 73

Journal entries circa 1925

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 22 : 74

The Feast of Lanterns, Tsinau 1927

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 75

Tientsin [introduction to sketches] 1929-1932

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 76

[Rickshaw for Nankai Univeristy] circa 1929-1932

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 77

The Name of the Game 1930

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 78

Jimmy Yen's Work 1931

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 79

The Streets of Tientsin undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 80

Tests and Educational Measurements Now Available in China undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 81

[For months they kept pressing inward] [poem] undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 82

Table of contents undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 83

The Quest of the Happy Mean, by one of the Pilgrims undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 84

Road to Wu Tai Shan undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 22 : 85

Hand drawn map of a temple and priest's quarters undated

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 23 : 1

Chapter 1: The Wang Family Village undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 23 : 2

The Children's Church as run for a half a year at Weihsien, Shantung, China undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 23 : 3

"Social Geography" (a community study course for rural schools) undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 23 : 4

Missiongram undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 23 : 5

A New Year's Day in Shantung [poem] undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 23 : 6

Song lyrics undated

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 23 : 7

Collection of poems written in Weihsien 1923

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 23 : 8

Nstalgia [poem] 1937

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 23 : 9

An old Chinese folk tale made into a story by Rankin Steurt undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 23 : 10

Collection of poems undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 23 : 11

Writings from Tientsin 1929-1930

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 23 : 12

Collection of poems written in Ichowfu 1923-1925

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 23 : 13

Writings from Ichowfu 1924-1925

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 23 : 14

Writings and poetry from Tientsin 1929-1930

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 23 : 15

Poetry from Ichowfu 1924-1925

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 23 : 29

Photocopies of various poems and writings undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 27 : 2

Biographical writings undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 27 : 3

China Missionaries Oral History Project

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 27 : 4

Miscellaneous writings

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 27 : 5

Trailer writings

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 27 : 6

Alaskan Trip on the Denali

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 27 : 7

The Wide Wide World

Physical Description: typed document
 

Series 20 Tootell (George T.)

Scope and Content Note

Dr. George Thomas Tootell was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1886. Dr. Tootell reached China in 1913, sponsored by the Presbyterian Church. He resided in five cities of Hunan from then on to 1949, serving as Director of Medical Work.
Excerpted from China Missionaries Oral History Project: George T. Tootell . Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, 1969.
Box/Folder 29 : 2

Manuscript fragment by Tootell undated

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 29 : 3

Letter to Mrs. Irwin from George T. Tootell May 13, 1971

Physical Description: autograph letter signed
Box/Folder 29 : 4

Pamphlet of Westminster Gardens of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America 1967

Box/Folder 29 : 5

Pamphlet titled, "Our Honeymoon" by Anna Tootell, Dr. and Mrs. George Tootell, Married in Canton, China January 13, 1915

 

Series 21 Topping (W. H.)

Scope and Content Note

William Hill Topping was born in 1885 in Maberley, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Topping arrived in Foochow in November 1911 supported by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He served there from 1911-1951 in various capacities including teacher, District Secretary and Associate General Secretary of the Mid-Fukien Synod of the Church of Christ in China.
Excerpted from China Missionaries Oral History Project: William Hill Topping . Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, 1970.
Box/Folder 29 : 6

Letters to family written by Will Topping while he was in Foochow, pages 1-183, photocopies 1911-1939

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 29 : 7

Letters to family written by Will Topping mostly while he was in California, photocopies 1940-1951

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 29 : 8

Letters to family written by Will Topping while he was in California and Foochow, pages 18-197, photocopies 1918-1939

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 30 : 5

The Views of Wan Shoa Shan Peking, Book I. Printed June 6, Year of the Pepuhlic of China undated

 

Series 22 Winans (Pearl B. Fosnot)

Scope and Content Note

Mrs. Pearl Beatrice Fosnot Winans was born in Daven port, Nebraska in 1891. She first reached China in September 1921 and was stationed in Chengtu, Szechwan. With the exception of a four year period in Tzechong, Zechwan and home furloughs, she was connected with the West China Union University until 1952.
Excerpted from China Missionaries Oral History Project: Pearl Fosnot Winans . Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, 1970.
Box/Folder 29 : 9

Copy of radio broadcast from Chengtu, "the universities contribution towards making the campus a national educational center", given by Pearl B. Fosnot Winans circa 1943

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 29 : 9

Tradition and Change in John Dewey's Social Philosophy, dissertation by Pearl Beatrice Fosnot, Boston University Graduate School 1940

Physical Description: typed document
Box/Folder 29 : 9

Chinese "Learning to Live" by Pearl B. Fosnot Winans 1948

Physical Description: typed document
 

Series 23 Unknown Affiliation

Scope and Content Note

The origination of these materials could not be identified.
Box/Folder 33

Lantern slides undated

Box/Folder 34 : 1

Photographic postcards of Macau undated

Physical Description: photographs
Box/Folder 34 : 2

Photographic postcards of Japan undated

Physical Description: photographs
Box/Folder 34 : 3

Photographic postcard views of Muckden undated

Physical Description: photographs
Box/Folder 34 : 4

Day by day calendar with images of artwork 1934

Physical Description: photographs
Box/Folder 34 : 5

Photographic colored postcards of Peiping undated

Physical Description: photographs
Box/Folder 34 : 6

Index cards with books and book references on China, general subjects, and school work taken at Lingnan 1930s?

Physical Description: autograph document
Box/Folder 34 : 7

Colored photographic postcards of Siam, Indo, Bangkok, Vietman undated

Physical Description: photographs
Box/Folder 34 : 8

Photographic postcard views of Keijo, Seoul undated

Physical Description: photographs
Box/Folder 34 : 9

Photographic postcard views of Botandai Heijo (Pyong Yang) undated

Physical Description: photographs
Box/Folder 34 : 10

Photographic postcards of industrial machinery, Fushun, Manchuria undated

Physical Description: photographs
Box/Folder 34 : 11

Photographic postcard views of Hsinching (Chang Chun, Manchuria) undated

Physical Description: photographs
Box/Folder 34 : 12

Photographic postcard set, Glipses of Korean Manners and Customs undated

Physical Description: photographs
Box/Folder 34 : 13

Photographs of Lingnan University undated

Physical Description: photographs
Box/Folder 34 : 14

Photographic postcard set of the views of Inner Kongo undated

Physical Description: photographs
Box/Folder 34 : 15

Photographic postcards of Harhpin undated

Physical Description: photographs
Box/Folder 34 : 16

Photographic postcard set of Grand Sights of Lamamiao Temple in Chengte undated

Physical Description: photographs
Box/Folder 34 : 17

Photographic postcard set of Views of Shan-Hai-Kuan and Great Wall undated

Physical Description: photographs
Box/Folder 34 : 18

Photographic images of Chinese signs in English undated

Box/Folder 34 : 19

Photographic images, formal portraits undated

Box/Folder 34 : 20

Photographic images, The Summer Palace, Peking, set of 15 photographs undated

Box/Folder 34 : 21

"A Story of the Mighty Yangtze," by Ditri Kessel, pp. 137-148 undated

Box/Folder 34 : 22

Quotes from Confucius and other ephemeral material undated

Box/Folder 34 : 23

Circular letter from the Women's Bible School, American Presbyterian Mission, Temple Hill, Chefoo, China, August 1936

 

Sub-series 21.1 Unknown Affiliation, Oversize

Box/Folder 32

Peking Gazette, volume1, number 34, October 30, 1913 undated

Physical Description: newspaper
Box/Folder 32

Photograph of Mt. Omei, Szechwan undated

Physical Description: photograph
Box/Folder 32

Jiba, the Tenrikyo Holy Site, The Head Quarters of Tenrikyo Church undated

Physical Description: set of broadsides
Box/Folder 32

Lace paper undated

Box/Folder 32

Photograph of 5 people, probably from south east Asia undated

Physical Description: photograph
Box/Folder 32

Landscape photographs of Canton, Hong Kong, and Manila undated

Physical Description: photographs
Box/Folder 32

Portrait of unidentified individual undated

Physical Description: glass negative