William Hill Topping (b.1885) served as a missionary in Foochow, China from November 1911-1947 supported by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He served as a teacher, District Secretary and Associate General Secretary of the Mid-Fukien Synod of the Church of Christ in China. The collection consists of 16 daily diaries kept by Mr. Topping after his retirement, from 1947 to 1968.

For more on W.H. Topping see the China Missionaries Collections: Grace Rowley papers and China Missionaries Oral History Project in the Special Collections of Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, 1970.

1 Box, 0.75 linear feet

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