Guide to the American Missionaries and Educators in China Collection
Finding aid created by Kelley Wolfe Bachli, 2005. Finding aid revised by Russell Michalak, 2009
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, Claremont University Consortium
2005
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Descriptive Summary
Title: American Missionaries and Educators in China
Date (inclusive): 1889-1972
Date (bulk): 1915-1945
Collection number: H1971.1
Creator:
Ady, Merrill S.
Cross, Rowland McLean
Ely, Lois Anna
Gillespie, Miln
Horn, Josie E.
Houston, Lyda S.
Ikenberry, Ernest Leroy and Olivia D.
Jones, Francis Price
Kellogg, Claude R.
Lingle, Jean
Luce, Henry
McCallum, James H.
Potts, Anna Hortense
Rowley, Grace
Scott, Roderick
Shepherd, Clara Sargent
Simkin, Robert and Margaret
Smythe, Lewis S. C.
Steurt, Marjorie Rankin
Tootell, George T.
Topping, William Hill
Winans, Pearl B. Fosnot
Abstract: The collection contain correspondence,
diaries, writings, photographs, reports, article clippings, and booklets that
document the experiences of American missionaries and educators in China. This
collection was assembled through the China Missionaries Oral History Project at
Claremont Graduate School from 1969-1971. The collection covers the years 1889-1972
with the bulk of the material ranging from 1910-1950.
Extent: 20.5 linear feet (35 boxes)
Repository:
Claremont Colleges. Honnold/Mudd Library.
800 N. Dartmouth Avenue
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library
Claremont University Consortium
Claremont, California 91711
Collection Number: H1971_1
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English
Physical Location: Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library. Claremont University Consortium.
Information for Researchers
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact Special Collections Library staff.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], American Missionaries and Educators Collection, Special Collections, Honnold Mudd Library, Claremont
University Consortium.
Acquisition Information
Gift of participants of the Claremont Graduate University's Oral History Program,
China Missionaries Project, circa 1971
Processing History
Processed by Kelley Wolfe Bachli, 2005.
Accruals
No additions to the collection is anticipated.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The materials that comprise the American Missionaries and Educators in China
collection originated from Claremont Graduate School's Oral History Program. In 1969
the China Missionaries Project began, creating oral histories for 44 individuals who
served as missionaries or educators in China. During the course of this project
several of the missionaries and educators donated their papers to Honnold/Mudd
Library Special Collections.
The collection contains many different types of materials, including correspondence,
diaries, writings, photographs, reports, article clippings, and booklets. The
collection covers the years 1889-1972 with the bulk of the material ranging from
1910-1950.
In processing this collection, the documents were organized by individuals
represented in the collection, divided into series for the larger sets of personal
papers, and arranged in chronological order.
The collection is organized into 23 series:
- Series 1: Ady (Merrill S.)
- Series 2: Cross (Rowland McLean)
- Series 3: Ely (Lois Anna)
- Series 4: Gillespie (Miln)
- Series 5: Horn (Josie E.)
- Series 6: Houston (Lyda S.)
- Series 7: Ikenberry (E.L. and Olivia D.)
- Series 8: Jones (Francis Price)
- Series 9: Kellogg (Claude R.)
- Series 10: Lingle (Jean)
- Series 11: Luce (Henry)
- Series 12: McCallum (James H.)
- Series 13: Potts (Anna Hortense)
- Series 14: Rowley (Grace)
- Series 15: Scott (Roderick)
- Series 16: Shepherd (Clara Sargent)
- Series 17: Simkin (Robert and Margaret)
- Series 18: Smythe (Lewis S. C.)
- Series 19: Steurt (Marjorie Rankin)
- Series 20: Tootell (George T.)
- Series 21: Topping (W. H.)
- Series 22: Winans (Pearl B. Fosnot)
- Series 23: Unknown Affiliation
Subject Headings
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection
Subjects
Missions China.
Missionaries, American.
Missionaries China diaries.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Photographs.
Photographic postcards.
Postcards.
Related Material
China Missionaries Oral History Project: Claude Rupert
Kellogg
. Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont,
California, 1969.
China Missionaries Oral History Project: Ernest L.
Ikenberry
. Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont,
California, 1971. Hon Spcl XC 14 OR24 IK3
China Missionaries Oral History Project: Frances Price
Jones
. Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont,
California, 1970. Hon Spcl XC 14 OR24 J715
China Missionaries Oral History Project: George T.
Tootell
. Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont,
California, 1971. Hon Spcl XC 14 OR24 T619
China Missionaries Oral History Project: Grace May
Rowley
. Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont,
California, 1970. Hon Spcl XC 14 OR24 R797
China Missionaries Oral History Project: James Henry
McCallum
. Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont,
California, 1971. Hon Spcl XC 14 OR24 AD99
China Missionaries Oral History Project: Lewis S. C.
Smythe
. Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont,
California, 1971. Hon Spcl XC 14 OR24 SM99
China Missionaries Oral History Project: Marjorie Rankin
Steurt
. Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont,
California, 1971. Hon Spcl XC 14 OR24 ST46
China Missionaries Oral History Project: Margaret Timberlake
Simkin
. Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont,
California, 1971. Hon Spcl XC 14 OR24 SI45
China Missionaries Oral History Project: Merrill Steele
Ady
. Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California,
1971. Hon Spcl XC 14 OR24 AD99
China Missionaries Oral History Project: Pearl Fosnot
Winans
. Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont,
California, 1971. Hon Spcl XC 14 OR24 W721
China Missionaries Oral History Project: Roderick
Scott
. Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont,
California, 1971. Hon Spcl XC 14 OR24 SC85
China Missionaries Oral History Project: Rowland McLean
Cross
. Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont,
California, 1969.
China Missionaries Oral History Project: William Hill
Topping
. Oral History Program, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont,
California, 1971. Hon Spcl XC 14 OR24 T629
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 : 46
Scrapbook, miscellaneous newspaper clippings
1901-circa 1918
Box/Folder 12 : 10
Diary; on cover, "Vol. 8, Grace Rowley, November 1910-1918"
1910-1918
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 : 36
Hand colored Chinese card and illustration; paper image cut
out of a man (used for funeral procession)
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 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 : 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 : 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 : 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 : 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
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 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
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