Charlotte M. Johnson papers M2196

Malgorzata Schaefer

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

October 2017

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford 94305-6064

specialcollections@stanford.edu

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Title: Charlotte M. Johnson papers

creator: Johnson, Charlotte M.

source: Michael Brown Rare Books

Identifier/Call Number: M2196

Physical Description: 3 Linear Feet (9 boxes and 5 map folders)

Date (inclusive): c. 1890-1928

Language of Material: Primarily in English with some material in Chinese.

Biographical note

Charlotte M. "Lotte" Johnson, of Brattleboro, Vermont, was a graduate of Middlebury College, member of the Women's Union Missionary Society of America, missionary teacher, and Superintendent of the Bridgman Memorial School at West Gate, Shanghai, China, from 1890-1928.

Content Description

Materials include correspondence (both manuscript and typescript), diaries, newspapers, artwork, photographs, and ephemera created and collected by missionary teacher Charlotte Johnson. Most of the correspondence is from the time that Johnson went to China just after 1904-1914, while the diaries date from her school years (1890-1896). Much of the material relates to Johnson's missionary work in Shanghai, as well as her high school and college years at Northfield Academy and Middlebury College.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased by Stanford Libraries in; 2016. Accession MSS 2017-022.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.

Conditions Governing Use

While Special Collections is the owner of the physical items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish.

Preferred Citation

[identification of item], Charlotte M. Johnson papers (M2196). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Johnson, Charlotte M.

Michael Brown Rare Books

Box 1, Folder 1

Outgoing letters, 1907-

Box 1, Folder 2

Letters from Katherine Jennings Abbey 1910-1914

Box 1, Folder 3

Letters from Sophia W. Dauchy 1908-1909

box 1, folder 4

Letters from S.D. Doremus to C. M. Johnson and to Ms. McClean 1908-1912

box 1, folder 5

Letters from F. L. Kow Kee Timber Co. 1910-1911

box 1, folder 6

Letters from Annie G. Hall 1912-1915

box 1, folder 7

Letters from Emma Gary Lee 1912

box 1, folder 8

Letters from Margaretta C. Morgan 1912

box 1, folder 9

Letters from S. C. New to C. M. Johnson and to Miss Doremus 1907-1913

box 1, folder 10

Incoming letters - various 1900-1908

box 1, folder 11

Incoming letters - various 1909-1911

box 1, folder 12

Incoming letters - various 1912

box 1, folder 13

Incoming letters - various (includes some undated) 1913-1928

box 1, folder 14

Letters - various (includes some undated) 1897-1918

box 1, folder 15

Canceled envelopes, some with notations

box 1, folder 16

Postcards

box 1, folder 16

Telegram from S. D. Doremus

box 1, folder 17

Photographs

box 2, folder 1

The Woman's Union Missionary Society of America, fifty second annual report, January 1913 and fifty fourth annual report, January 1915

box 2, folder 2

The Missionary Link, v. 37-43, March 1906 - December 1912, with missing issues

box 2, folder 3

Missionary ephemera

box 2, folder 4

Manuscript ephemera

Box 2, Folder 5-7

School ephemera

Box 3, Folder 1-3

Printed ephemera

Box 3, Folder 4

1891 With Modern Authors compiled by Alice F. Stevens, Greenough, Hopkins and Cushing, Boston

Box 3, Folder 5

Memorandum and account books: expense accounts from time at Middlebury College 1898-1903

Box 3, Folder 6

Diaries (3) when Charlotte M. Johnson was 15-21 years old, attending Northfield Academy as well as teaching.

Box 3, Folder 7

Chinese booklets (3)

half-box 4, Folder 1

Chinese envelopes, red, with some writing

half-box 4, Folder 2

Chinese letters

half-box 4, Folder 3

Chinese receipts

half-box 4, Folder 4

Three glass plate negatives

oversize-box 5, Folder 1

The China Press: August 14, 1912; October 26, 1913; October 28 - November 1, 1913

oversize-box 5, Folder 2

The China Press: November 16 and November 22, 1913 (very brittle);

oversize-box 5, Folder 3

The China Press: January 21, 1914; February 1, 1914; February 3 - February 7, 1914

oversize-box 5, Folder 4

The Shanghai Times: October 11, 1910; Manitou Springs Daily Journal: June 25, 1915; Beverly Evening Times: November 5, 1912; The Rocky Mountain News: June 30, 2015 (very brittle)

oversize-box 6, folders 1-3

Articles or select pages from the following newspapers: Springfield Union; Boston Evening Transcrip; The North American; Deerfield Valley Times; The State: Columbia S. C.; The Columbia Record; The Brattleboro Daily News; The Reformer: Brattleboro; The New York Times; The New York Herald; The Home News; Middlebury Register;

oversize-box 6, Folder 4

The Monthly Record, April 1904; Southern Christian Advocate, February 13, 1913; The Wellspring, vol. LI no. 7, 1894; Cottager and Ready Record, December 15, 1892; The Household; articles from The Evengelist and The Watchman, September 16, 1897; The Congregationalist, August 15, 1895

Box 6

Map of the United States: template for spoon rack

map-folder 7

Articles or pages from The New York Daily Tribune; The Sunday Herald, Boston; The Whitehall Chronicle; The Vermont Phoenix

map-folder 8-10

The North China Daily News: Incomplete issues of September 20, 1905; December 23, 1905; March 10, 1906; September 4, 1906; September 7, 1906; March 1, 1911; September 28, 1911; October 4, 1911; November 15, 1912; August 15, 1913; September 2, 1913

map-folder 11

Notification of service at Christian church (in Chinese)

flat-box 12

Northfield Conference in Massachussetts, 1894: newspaper articles pasted into booklet

flat-box 12

Reproductions of art of Chinese images

flat-box 12

Student artwork

flat-box 12

Photograph of class of chidren, Chang-su-ho-garden photographer, Shanghai

othertype 13

To the editor of the North-China Daily News, two published letters: Mr. Ku Hung-Ming on the situation, and Revolutionary literature

othertype 13

Notarized letter of change of contractor to complete Brigdman school building

othertype 13

Letter to Miss Johnson from Clara Alward 1900-03-08

othertype 13

Pledge for Teacher of the Bridgman Memorial Home, Shanghai, China

othertype 13

Unusually long letter in Chinese signed by Charlotte Johnson and D. H. Davis

othertype 13

Printed document (?) in Chinese

Box 14

Chinese artifacts: calling cards, ribbons, pin, jade pieces, tea box, decorative box