CHINA INLAND MISSION, 1865-1951
From the School of Oriental and African Studies, London

Part 3: Minutes and Papers of the China Inland Mission

Contents of Reels - Part 3

(NB The numbering references should be written as CIM 1, CIM 2 and so on)

REEL 40

SECTION 1: LONDON COUNCIL

Documents concerning foundation of London Council

1. Letter to Richard Hill from JHT, inviting him to a discussion of proposed London Council

1/8/1872

2. Letter to MGT from Richard Hill re death of JHT and his own notes and memories of Council foundation

15/10/1905

Minutes (manuscript up to 1920, indexed)

3. Minute book including a list of missionaries and an outfit list

4/10/1872-14/12/1876

4. Minute book including material re property in Bhamo

5/1/1877-21/11/1882

5. Minute book including material on resignations and marriages

2/1/1883-20/12/1887

REEL 41

6. Minute book including material on Australasian Council

3/1/1888-24/11/1891

7. Minute book including material on China Council and dispute with Church Missionary Society

1/12/1891-18/12/1894

8. Minute book

8/1/1895-17/5/1898

REEL 42

9. Minute book

21/5/1898-22/10/1901

10. Minute book

5/11/1901-26/9/1905

REEL 43

11. Minute book including material on proposed United Missionary Movement in China

3/10/1905-23/2/1909

12. Minute book

2/3/1909-4/6/1912

REEL 44

13. Minute book including material on payments to missionaries resigning during or after furlough

18/6/1912-11/10/1915

14. Minute book

8/11/1915-24/3/1920

REEL 45

15. Minute book

28/4/1920-12/4/1928

16. Minute book including material on the CIM withdrawing from the Conference of Missionary Societies an guidelines on accepting candidates

18/4/1928-20/12/1933

REEL 46

17. Minute book

17/1/1934-14/11/1941

18. Minute book

13/2/1942-6/12/1951

REEL 47

Minutes of the Finance Committee

19. Minute book of the Finance Committee

31/1/1929-3/10/1940

20. Minute book of the Finance Committee

6/1/1941-6/12/1951

Minutes of the Building Committee

21. Minute book of the Building Committee containing also rough minutes of Directors' Meetings of CIM Corporation

1894-1906

REEL 48

Accounts

22. Bundle of CIM Balance Sheets (16)

1878-1880
1908-1920

23. Bundle of Home Accounts (9)

1890-1893
1895
1898-1901

24. Bundle of Cash Accounts (17)

1877
1880-1889
1904-1907

25. Bundle of Home and China Accounts (5)

1894
1896-1897
1902-1903

26. Box file of CIM audited accounts, CIM Corporation balance sheets and cash statements (36)

1921-1939
1922-1939

27. CIM cash account and sundry schedules

31/12/1940

28. CIM cash account and sundry schedules

31/12/1941

29. CIM cash account and sundry schedules

31/12/1942

30. CIM cash account and sundry schedules

31/12/1943

31. CIM cash account and sundry schedules

31/12/1944

32. CIM cash account and sundry schedules

31/12/1945

33. CIM general summary of receipts and payments account

31/12/1946

34. CIM general summary of receipts and payments account

31/12/1947

35. CIM general summary of receipts and payments account

31/12/1948

36. CIM general summary of receipts and payments account

31/12/1949

37. CIM general summary of receipts and payments account

31/12/1950

38. CIM general summary of receipts and payments account

31/12/1951

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Correspondence

39. Letter to JHT from M.A. Parsons re donation to the mission work

n.d.

40. Letter from JHT to MJT re travels in Scotland and preparation for China (7) 4/9/1865-10/9/1865

41. Letters from JHT to MJT re preparation for China and mission preaching in England (3)

26/9/1865-30/9/1865

42. Letter to JET from Henrietta Soltau re mission preaching in Barnstable

3/6/1872

43. Letter to JET from Henrietta Soltau re mission preaching in Barnstable

12/6/1872

44. Letter to JET from Henrietta Soltau re travelling to conference

20/6/1872

45. Letter to JHT from Graham Wilmot-Brooke re voyage and asking for advice on training and choosing missionaries and on marrying converts (photocopy)

29/7/1887

45a. Letter from B. Broomhall to unknown correspondent discussing CIM's use of lay (i.e. Non-theologically trained) missionaries (photocopy)

27/3/1888

46. Part of a letter from Shanghai to Theodore Howard re riots damaging Roman Catholic property and a list of baptism numbers (photocopy)

13/5/1891

47. Letter to Wm. Sharp from B. Broomhall seeking his opinion on the action to be taken regarding some papers [unidentified]

19/9/1891

48. Letter from C. Gordon re donation of a magnetic machine for the treatment of nervous diseases

28/10/1905

SECTION 2: CHINA INLAND MISSION CORPORATION

Minutes (see also CIM 21)

49. Minute book of Directors' and general meetings, including material on its formation. Indexed

10/11/1895-20/3/1929

50. Minute book of Directors' and general meetings. No index

29/5/1929-7/12/1950

REEL 50

Accounts (see also CIM 26)

51. Bundle of cash statements and balance sheets (26)

1897-1921

52. Balance sheets, receipts and payment accounts

31/12/1940

53. Balance sheets, receipts and payment accounts

31/12/1941

54. Balance sheets, receipts and payment accounts

31/12/1942

55. Balance sheets, receipts and payment accounts

31/12/1943

56. Balance sheets, receipts and payment accounts

31/12/1944

57. Balance sheets, receipts and payment accounts

31/12/1945

58. Balance sheets, receipts and payment accounts

31/12/1946

59. Balance sheets, receipts and payment accounts

31/12/1947

60. Balance sheets, receipts and payment accounts

31/12/1948

61. Balance sheets, receipts and payment accounts

31/12/1949

62. Balance sheets, receipts and payment accounts

31/12/1950

63. Balance sheets, receipts and payment accounts

31/12/1951

Correspondence

64. Letter to Directors from F. Marcus Wood applying for membership

12/3/1898

65. Letter to Directors from J.N. Hayward applying for membership

12/3/1898

66. Letter to Directors from WBS applying for membership

18/7/1898

67. Letter to WBS from Cecil Polhill-Turner applying for membership

6/5/1903

68. Letter to WBS from M. Broomhall applying for membership

12/5/1903

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SECTION 3: CHINA PAPERS

Documents concerning foundation of China Council

69. Letter to China from JHT re structure of possible China Council and inviting comments (photocopy of copy made in CIM 7)

24/8/1883

Minutes

70. Minutes of Superintendents of CIM Provincial Districts and of first meeting of China Council (copy)

13/11/1886

71. Minutes of first meeting of China Council (copy)

13/11/1886-25/11/1886

72. Minutes of first meeting of China Council (photocopy of CIM 71)

13/11/1886
25/11/1886

73. Minutes of the China Council (with modern names index)

1886-1899

74. Minutes of the China Council (with modern names index)

1900-1909

75. Minutes of the China Council (with modern names index)

1910-1919

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76. Minutes of the China Council (with modern names index)

1920-1929

77. Minutes of the China Council

1930-1935

78. Minutes of the China Council (with name index for 1930-1939)

1936-1939

79. Minutes of the China Council (with modern names index)

1940-1947

REEL 53

80. Minutes of the China Council at Hong Kong (during transition of activities from China)

21-23/5/1951

Directors Meetings

81. Report of the Directors Conference and Special Session of the China Council held at Shanghai

22/12/1938-9/1/1939

82. Minutes of the Directors of the CIM held at Melbourne, Australia. [On future of CIM following expulsion from China.]

12-20/2/1951

83. Circular letter from CIM Directors to 'Fellow Workers' encouraging them during difficult times

n.d.-12-20 Feb 1951

Accounts (see also CIM 25)

84. Bundle of China Abstract Balance Sheets (30)

1880-1882
1886-1893
1895
1899-1901
1904-1921

REEL 54

Correspondence

85. Letters relating to award of Order of Double Dragon to Sir Walter Hillier, Rev. Arthur Sowerby, Rev. Evan Morgan, Dr. Ebenezer Edwards, B. Broomhall (photocopies)

3/8/1910-5/11/1910

Personnel

86. Register of British CIM missionaries, their addresses, ages, occupations, dates of departure, spouses, dates of marriage, dates of deaths and or retirements, and remarks. Indexed. Probably compiled in England

1853-1895

87. Rough list of 10 missionaries with dates of departure, details not filled in. Letter stuck to reverse to WBS from Martha Stevenson giving her father's full name, dated 22/1/1902

1853-1865

88. Register of CIM missionaries from various countries: arrival dates, home towns, ages, previous occupations, denominations, marriages (dates, places and spouses), retirement or death and causes. Indexed. Compiled in China.

Three sections:
CIM (with notes up to 1970) 1887-1949
Associated missions (with notes up to 1973) 1885-1949
CIM 1950-1970

89. Supplement to Shanghai Mercury listing Protestant missionaries dead or missing after rebellion
1/10/1900

Miscellaneous Documents

90. Mss reports concerning opening of CIM Missions at Honan, c. 1889, Kwang yü-en, 1889, and Nan-pu, 1902. Leaflet A Living Epistle: the story of the Rev. K K Yü, Pastor of Nanpu, Szechuan by Miss F H Culverwell, n.d.
n.d.

91. Circular letter from F E Parry to 'Fellow Workers' re. CIM financial arrangements during Japanese occupation of China
29/11/1940

92. CIM Business Department, Shanghai. List of stores in stock with prices and instructions for ordering them
January 1932

SECTION 4: ASSOCIATED MISSIONS (see also CIM 88)

Accounts

93. Bundle of Associates' accounts (15)

1892-1907

94. Letters to/from MGT, FHT and others, re meetings and publications in N. America.
1917-1932

Also FHT's certificates fro M.D. and M.R.C.P. (61 sheets)

1889

Print

95. Will of William Whiting Borden, leaving $250,000 to CIM in N. America: to be proved in Chicago
1913

96. One Hundred Years of the China Inland Mission / Overseas Missionary Fellowship in north America: 1888-1988, with special focus on the Mission's beginnings in Canada and United States, 1888-1890, David J. Michell. Attached: photocopies of correspondence with JHT

1988

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SECTION 5: PUBLICATIONS

Principles & Practice

97. Volume entitled CIM Council containing the Principles & Practice of the CIM to which council members have appended their signatures

1914-1968

Handbills

98. Handbill for lecture by JHT on China in Malvern
12/4/1866

99. Handbill for farewell addresses of the Cambridge Seven about to leave China 4/2/1885

Internal Publications

100. Box file containing Lists of Missionaries and Stations (61)
1886-1929

REEL 56

101. Box file containing Mission Directories (28)
1930-1950

REEL 57

102. Box file of Field Bulletins (41)
1939-1951

REEL 58

103. American Methodist Episcopal Mission Press, Directory of Protestant Missions in China, Foochow
1866

104. Andrew, George, Personal Reminiscences of Rev. J. Hudson Taylor, Chefoo post 1905

105. Anon, book of Chinese poetry with some English translations
n.d.

106. Ball, Richard, China, London
1854

107. Baller, F.W., The Late J. Hudson Taylor as a Correspondent, London
post 1905

108. The same.
post 1905

109. Band, Edward, He Brought Them Out, London

1956

110. Band, Edward & John Whitehorn, He Led Them On, London
1955

111. Bible: Chinese New Testament, belonging to MJD
1852

112. Bible: Chinese New Testament, given by JHT to B. Broomhall
1854

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113. Bible: Chinese New Testament, belonging to JEF
1866

114. Bible: Chinese new Testament, belonging to JHT
1883

115. Blatchley, Emily, Poems and Meditations
1871-1873

116. Broomhall, B., The Evangelisation of the World, London
1889

117. CIM, The Arrangements of the China Inland Mission, Shanghai
1886

REEL 60

198. CIM, Field Bulletin 1, Shanghai
1951

199. CIM, Field Bulletin 2, Shanghai
1951

200. CIM, List of Retired Workers
1948

201. CIM, List of CIM Children
1949

202. CIM, Monthly Gleaner 1-12, Yangchow
1871

203. The same, unbound
1871

204. CIM, Occasional Papers, London
1866-1867

205. CIM, Occasional Papers, London

1866-1868

REEL 61

206. CIM, Occasional Papers, London
1868-1869

207. CIM, Occasional Papers, London
1870-1875

208. CIM, Report of the Hangchow Branch, Shanghai
1868

209. CIM, Press Report, T'ai-chow
1909

210. CES, Third Annual Report, London
1853

211. Chinese Missionary Gleaner XVI, London
1857

212. Chinese Missionary Gleaner XVII, London
1857

213. Chinese Missionary Gleaner XVIII, London
1857

214. Chinese Missionary Gleaner XXIII, London
1857

215. Chinese Missionary Gleaner XXVI, London
1858

216. Chinese Missionary Gleaner XXVII, London
1858

217. Chinese Missionary Gleaner XXIX, London
1858

218. Chinese Missionary Gleaner XXX, London
1858

219. Chinese Missionary Gleaner XLIV, London
1859

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