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CHINA THROUGH WESTERN EYES
Manuscript Records of Traders, Travellers, Missionaries & Diplomats, 1792-1942
Part 4: Manuscript Diaries and Papers from the China Records Project at Yale Divinity Library
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RG08, Box 5 Martin Albert American Presbyterian Mission, North. The Story of Hope Hospital, 1871-1952.Extent: 1 folder Typescript writings: By Martin:
1. “Currency Difficulties in the years 1920-1942”
2. “Forty Years Ago in Hwaiyuan”
3. “Refugees 1937”
4. “Banking Between Hwaiyuan & Shanghai 1938-1942”
5. “Two Incidents – Kuling”
6. “Get You Up to a High Mountain, O Zion, Isa. 40:9” (re Kuling resort)
7. “Kuling Mountains – ‘Lions’ Leap’ “
8. “Mountain Pools – Dragon Pool”
9. “Mountain Pools – Incense Mills Pool”
10. “Kuling Camping Trip” (written 1979)
11. “Finding a Falls – Kuling”
12. “Up Taishan”
By Samuel Cochran, MD: “The Story of Hope Hospital” (of Central China Mission, American Presbyterian Church, North) (written 1948)
RG08, Box 5 Irrenius Atwood American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Material regarding Shansi Mission and the Boxer Rebellion, 1900-1913. Irrenius J Atwood (MD) (d1913) served with the ABCFM in Shansi (1882-1913). The files provide information regarding the Shansi Mission, an outgrowth of a “China Band” formed in the Oberlin Theological Seminary, 1879-80, with material regarding Boxer activities; excerpts from the journal of Susan Rowena Bird, martyred at Taku, 1900; eight letters to/from IA or his relatives; a tribute to IA with biographical information; and other material.
Extent: 1 folder Correspondence:
1908 Oct 38 I J Atwood to “Dear sister”, written from Paoting-fu
1909 Feb 14: Paul L Corbin to “Dr Atwood”, written from Taikuhsien, Shansi
1909 Apr 15: Enoch F Bell (Ass Sec ABCFM) to Mrs I J Atwood, written from Boston
1909 May 17: W A Hemingway to “Dear friends”, written from Taiku, Shani
1913 Feb 1: Enoch F Bell to Mary A Atwood (daughter of IJA) written from Boston
1913 Nov 26: Watts O Pye to “Miss Atwood” re death of IJA, written from Fen Chow Fu, Shansi
Typescript writings:
1. Tribute to Dr I J Atwood (1913)
2. “Journal of Miss Susan Rowena Bird (Martyred at Taiku, July 31st, 1900)”
3. “The Shansi Mission” (1907)
4. Untitled sketch re China
RG08, Box 5 John G H Baker Church Missionary Society. Letters from Canton & Shanghai,
1935-49; On the Study of Church History in China.John Gilbert Hindley Baker (see also Margaret Marston, Reel 60) served with CMS Canton, Kunming (1934-1944), St John’s University, Shanghai (1947-1949), and Lingnan University, Canton (1949-1951). The papers include a typescript compilation of correspondence to his family (1935-1949), a book length tms regarding experiences in China of JGHB, his wife Martha (Patty) Sherman Baker, and her family (Arthur Sherman-ACM); and a paper by JGHB: “On the Study of Church History in China” (1983).
Extent: 12 folders
Folder 1: 1935, from Canton
Folder 2: 1936, from Canton; Lingnan University
Folder 3: 1937, from Lingnan University, Canton; Hong Kong; Holy Trinity College, Canton
Folder 4: 1938, from Holy Trinity College, Canton
Folder 5: 1939, from Canton; CMS Hospital, Kunming, Yunnan; Calcutta
Folder 6: 1940, from Kunming
Folder 7: 1941-1943, from Kunming
Folder 8: 1944-1946, from Kunming; Calcutta; New York
Folder 9: 1947, from US; from St John’s University, Shanghai
Folder 10: 1948-1949, from St John’s University, Shanghai, Canton
Typescript writings:
1. “On the Study of Church History in China” by Gilbert Baker (1983 May)
2. Draft of proposed book, “It Happened to Us in China”, re Baker, his wife, and her family
Contents of It Happened to Us in China:
1. Introduction
About Martha (Patty) Sherman Baker. The involvement of her family in China. Our meeting and life together in China, SA, England and Hong Kong.
I. Tells of China in 1900, the meeting of Arthur Mason Sherman, Episcopal missionary, and Martha Lovering of Baltimore, visiting China with her sister. The life of missionaries and others in China in the post-Boxer years, leading up to the Revolution of 1911 and also the birth of Martha (Patty) Sherman in the same year. What was the involvement and influence of the Church at this time.
II. Revolutions and Schooldays
The confused period of Sun Yat Sen and the War Lords. The effect and influence of Christians in China. Schooldays in Kuling American School. Anti-British and Anti-Christian Movements 1925-26. Chiang Kai Shek’s March to the north. Evacuation of many Americans including the Shermans in 1927. These events seen through diaries and letters.
III. China in the Thirties, Revolution, Nationalism, War
Patty Sherman returns to USA to complete education, Mt Holyoke and Columbia. Her sister Catherine teaching in China till 1932. My involvement begins with Bishop R O Hall’s appointment as Bishop of Hong Kong and South China in 1932;he invites me to join his team. I go out in 1934. Early Impressions in Canton, - in Yunnan 1935 (year of the “Long March”), visit Peking in 1936. Patty arrives in China, teaching at St Hilda’s Wuchang in 1936.
IV China’s Year of Destiny 1937
Patty in Hankow (Wuchang) and then in Peking at the time of the outbreak of war. An adventurous journey back to Hankow. I was in Canton, and also in Japan at outbreak of war, on holiday. Some impressions of the Church in both countries on the eve of war.
V China’s United Front 1938. Into Free China 1939
We meet at Bishop Root’s house in Hankow in interesting company. The Church’s influence among Chinese leaders. War time journeys. Hankow to Canton and a week of air raids. The Japanese bombing of Canton May 1938. Patty and friends in an adventurous journey down the mountain from Kuling in war conditions. The Fall of Canton and Japanese occupation Oct 1938. Patty joins the St Hilda’s Boone School and goes with it to Kwangai and eventually on to the Burma Road in Yunnen. I move from Canton into Free China in Kunming, and we meet again.
VI World-wide War and the Chinese Revolution
a) The Other Long March. Chinese Universities move to the West. A Student Chrch in Kunmung.
b) Marriage in USA in 1941 and an eventful journey via Japan, Hong Kong, Rangoon and the Burma Road. The Life of the Church in South-west China. Effects of US and Allied Participation. Family life in a small Chinese house.
c) A Period in India, SA and England, then return to Shanghai 1947.
d) Shanghai on the eve of Revolution. Chaplain of St John’s University. What did Church do in expectation of communist victory?
RG08, Box 20 Eugene Barnett Young Men’s Christian Association (henceforth YMCA), Shanghai. The Far East in the Summer of 1940; Memoirs, 1937-1968. Eugene E Barnett served with the YMCA in Shanghai (1910-1936).
Extent: 1 folder; 1 bound volume Consists of:Report: “The Far East in the Summer of 1940 – Confidential Notes on Visits made by Eugene E Barnett, on behalf of the International Committee YMCA in North China, Southwest China, East and South China, Japan, Korea, Manchuuria, and the Philippines – May 3 – September 6, 1940”
Memoirs of EEB: “As I Look Back – Recollections of Growing up in America’s Southland and of Twenty-Six years in Pre-Communist China – 1888 – 1936”
Excerpt from the Report on The Fare East in the Summer of 1940:
I. THE JOURNEY
One could not spend four strenuous months in the Far East in the summer of 1940 travelling thousands of miles by water, air and rail, visiting China, Japan, Korea, Manchuria and the Philippines, and interviewing hundreds of persons of high and low degree without being reminded at every turn that that part of the world is far closer to Europe and North America than many suppose.
I sailed from San Francisco on May 9th. On the following day Hitler launched his blitzkreig on the Low Countries, and before we reached Yokohama, France was on the verge of collapse. If, in a sense, our ship was taking us away from these events, in an equally true sense it was also taking us toward them, or at least their immediate and inevitable consequences. This is easily understood when it is recalled that nine-tenths of the British Empire, an equal proportion of the Dutch Empire, and more than half of the territory of France and of Russia lies outside of Europe, much of it in Asia. One has only to cite the summer’s developments in French Indo-China, in the Dutch East Indies, on the Burma Road and in Hong Kong, not to mention the critical tensions which have gripped Shanghai and Tokyo during this period, to show how inseparably the fortunes of Europe and Asia are bound together.
It had been four years since, in the summer of 1936, I had come away from the Far East after a residence of twenty-six years in China. This made the summer’s journey as much a “homecoming” for me as it was a visit from North America. At every stage I was with friends of long years’ standing. This became increasingly true as I reached China and in China as I moved toward the Far West. These friends and their friends knew that the object of my visits was not business contracts, diplomatic concessions, or even newspaper stories, but only deepened understanding which might serve as a basis for continuing spiritual fellowship maintained across national and racial frontiers. If this report does not provide true glimpses into the situations with which it deals, the fault will be mine for friends all along the way have with great intimacy been particularly true of the nationals whom I have met in each country visited, but also of American and British missionaries, business men, and officials resident in each country.
At this time when national fears, suspicions and antagonisms have reached their peak, we see in Christianity the most universal force at work across the world binding men together. Because the Young Men’s Christian Association is a Christian movement in which men, young men and boys of some sixty-nine countries have come to feel themselves in some degree at least, members of one another, its leaders cannot remain indifferent to the disruptive forces now blasting away at human relationships. The North American YMCAs have a special responsibility in relation to thirty-two countries in which its representatives have pioneered YMCA work, in twenty-five of which these representatives are still at work as our “unofficial ambassadors.” A study of the conditions under which this responsibility must be discharged in the Far East has been my justification for braving the heat, air raids and war time contingencies of travel during the summer of 1940.
RG08, Box 20 Karl Beck Reformed Church in the United States/Reformed Church in America. Memoir of Hsiang-Si Mission, 1914-52.Karl H Beck, RCUS; RCA Yanling, Yungsui area (1914-1952).
Extent: 1 folder containing:
Typescript writings: “Memoirs of Hsiang-Si Mission” (114 pp) (1972)
Re: Evangelical and Reformed Church’s China Mission in Western Hunan.
RG08, Box 20 Wesley Bissonette Methodist Episcopal Church. The Siege and Battle of Kutien, 1934.Wesley S Bissonnette, MEFB Foochow, Kutien (1903-1943).
Extent: 1 folder containing:
Typescript report, “The Siege and Battle of Kutien” (1934)
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RG08, Box 28 Ruth A Brack American Presbyterian Mission, North. Report on her internment by the Japanese in Shantung Province, 1942.Ruth A Brack, PN Weihsien, Sung (L.1919-L.1940).
Extent: 1 folder containing:
Report regarding her internment by the Japanese Shantung Province
(c 1942) (18 pp).
RG08, Box 35 Elizabeth Bruce Reformed Church in America. Memoirs concerning work in Siokhe, Amoy, Changchow and Hong Kong.Elizabeth Gordon Bruce, RCA Siokhe, Amoy, Changchow, Hong Kong.
Extent: 1 folder containing:
“Such as I Have!” memoirs (1970).
RG08, Box 35 Harry Brunger Canton, China to Hong Kong, 1949-50.
Extent: 1 folder containing:
Typed ms “Canton, China to Hong Kong, 1949-1950”. Reflections on a year spent in Communist China.
RG08, Box 35 Mina Van Cleave Foreign Christian Missionary Society. Buck Memoirs (Luchowfu, 1914-1916).Mina Van Cleave Buck, FCMS Luchowfu (1914-1916).
Extent: 1 folder containing:
“Blest Be the Tie that Binds” memoirs (1968, 1969)
RG08, Box 39 Ruth Chester Ginling College, Nanking. Correspondence, 1927-1950; Impressions of Ginling in Nanking; and Women in War-Time China.Ruth Chester, Ginling College Nanking, Chengtu (1917-1950).
Extent: 19 folders containing:
Correspondence, report: “Impressions of Ginling in Nanking”, script: “Women in War-Time China” (1927-1931, 1937-1950).
RG08, Box 48 Douglas Corpron United Christian Missionary Society. China Notes, 1949.Douglas S Corpron, UCMS Hofei, An Luchowfu, An Nanking (L.1916-L.1940).
Extent: 1 folder containing:
“China Notes” 1949 Apr 17 – 1949 Oct 9
RG08, Box 48 O C Crawford American Presbyterian Mission, North. Diary kept at Soochow, 1938-1939, during Japanese occupation.O C Crawford, PN Soochow, Hangchow (1900-1939).
Extent: 1 folder containing:
Typed copy of diary kept at Soochow, China, 1938 July 5 – 1939 Jan 18, under Japanese occupation (1938-1939)
RG08, Courtenay Fenn American Presbyterian Mission, North.Boxes 68-69 Diary, 1899; Scrapbook on the Siege of Peking, 1900; photograph album.Courtenay Hughes Fenn, PN Peking.
Extent: 2 boxes containing:
254 p diary, typed and electrostatically reproduced.
1 photo, “2nd Petaiho Conference, 1899”,
1 photograph album,
1 scrapbook on the Siege of Peking, 1900 (1866-1927)
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RG08, Ernest and American Church Mission.Boxes 263-264 Clarissa Forster Scrapbooks and photographs of life in Nanking, 1937-1939, including details of Japanese occupation and atrocities.Ernest H and Clarissa Forster, ACM Yangchow, Nanking, Kiangsu Province; Ernest Forster had served in China for seventeen years before returning to Boston to marry Clarissa Townsend in 1936. Shortly after their return to Yangchow, Japanese hostilities forced their removal to Nanking. Ernest stayed in Nanking throughout the Japanese occupation while Clarissa was evacated to Shanghai.
Extent: 3 boxes
These papers provide an excellent inside account of the situation in Nanking dring 1937-1938. They complement the papers of Minnie Vautrin (RG 8), Miner Searle Bates (RG 10) and others who were involved in relief work in Nanking during this period. Substantive typescript and printed letters, newsletters, newspaper clippings and photographs document the Japanese atrocities which occurred and the work of Western missionaries on the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone. Material consists of:
Large scrapbook, possibly compiled by the father of Clarissa Townsend Forster, contains substantive documentation of situation in Nanking and surrounding area. 1937-1938.
Letters from the Forsters and their colleagues John Magee, William P Roberts, Minnie Vautrin, Miner Searle Bates, George Fitch and others are included. Communications to and from US government officials are included. A sample of Japanese propaganda contrasts with vivid accounts of Japanese atrocities. District of Shanghai Newsletters from 1937 and 1938 document Episcopal work.
Publications relating to Ginling College, a newsletter of the National Christian Council of China and lists of Western Nanking residents are included.
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RG08, Box 265 Ernest and Photographs. Clarissa Forster
Five photograph albums: 1) (1927-1939) Documents Episcopal work in Yangchow, Nanking and Wuhu. 2) (1936-1938) Documents Episcopal work in Yangchow and Nanking. 3) (1937) Documents war damage in Shanghai. 4) (1937-1938). Documents Nanking during Japanese occupation, work of Nanking Safety Zone Committee. 5) (1938-1939) Documents relief work in Nanking, including at Ginling College. Photographs and booklet documenting Episcopal work in Japan, including St Margaret’s School, Tokyo, visited by Clarissa Townsend during 1945.
RG08, Box 70 Howard Galt ABCFM, Peking. The Internment Camp at Wei Hsien, 1943; and other writings.Howard S Galt, ABCFM Tungchow, Peking (1899-1943).
One envelope containing:Mss “The Internment Camp at Wei Hsien, March-Sept, 1943” (34 pp), “A Journey of Repatriates: Wei Hsien to New York. Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec, 1943” (46pp), “Gripsholm Trip” (1943)
RG08, Box 70 Sidney Gamble YMCA, Peking. Mimeographed letters, 1924-1927. Sidney D Gamble, YMCA, Peking (1918-1932).
Extent: 1 bound volume of mimeographed letters from the Peking YMCA (1924-1927).
RG08, Box 73 Mary Porter Women’s Foreign Missionary Society Gamewell of Methodist Episcopal Church. Scrapbook history of Peking Station of WFMS, 1871-1926.Mary Porter Gamewell, WFMS Peking (1871-).
Extent: 1 scrapbook.
“History of the Peking Station of the North China Mission of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church”, --218pp handwritten history in a scrapbook with photos and printed material covering the years1871-1926, 1938 (c 1871-1938)
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RG08, Box 91 Dorothy Grayson Methodist Episcopal Church. Memoir (Foochow, Kutien Fu), 1933-49. Dorothy D; Brewster Grayson (formerly Mrs Harold N Brewster), MEFB Foochow, Kutien (1933-1949).
Extent: 25 folders containing:
“We Immigrants Were Welcome” – typed ms re missionary life in Kutien and Foochow 1933-1944, 1947-1949 (1933-1944, 1947-1949)
RG08, Box 250 Virginia Hebbert American Church Mission, Anking, Anwhei. Correspondence, 1947-1950; Writings; and Diary, 1949. Virginia Hebbert, ACM, Anking, Anhwei, 1946-1950; born on December 30, 1911 in South Dakota, Virginia Hebbert was educated at Syracuse University and the Columbia University School of Social Work. From 1933 to 1946 she served as a Caseworker and Case Work Supervisor in child caring institutions and social agencies. In 1946 she was appointed as a missionary under the Episcopal Church to start a medical social work department at St James Hospital, Anking, Anhwei Province.
She spent two years in language study – six months at the China Inland Mission Language School in Anking and one and a half years at Ha Wen Hsueh, Hsiao, Peking. In addition to her responsibilities in connection with St James Hospital, Hebbert also taught English part-time at An Ta University. The Anking area came under Communist control in April, 1949 but St James Hospital was able to carry on with its work. Following her departure from China in December, 1950, Hebbert taught at universities in the United States and served in the Philippines from 1955 to 1967. See Folder 24 for additional biographical information.
Extent: 24 folders.
Though small, this group of papers provides valuable documentation regarding the experiences of a single woman missionary/social worker during a troubled period of Chinese history. Hebbert’s letters give detailed information about her daily work, recreation and relationships, as well as describing the political and economic conditions, which were the context for her work. The papers are divided into the following sections:
I. Correspondence (19 folders). The correspondence consists primarily of substantive weekly letters from Hebbert to family members in the United States. There are a few letters written to Hebbert’s family by her friend Claire Lintilhac in Shanghai. These are from the period following the Communist liberation of Anking when mail delivery in that area was disrupted.
II. Writings by Hibbert (4 folders) – “A Year in Peking” – article in the Anking Newsletter 1948 Jun – Diary/notes including re the Communist takeover of Anking 1949 Apr-Dec – annual report, Social Service Department, St James Hospital, Anking c 1949 Oct – Description of child placing system of a foundling home in the Anking area, nd.
III. Memorabilia – Portion of commissioning service for Virginia Hebbert 1946 Sep 8 – Sheet of biographical data compiled by Hebbert. These papers were donated in 1986 by Virginia Hebbert.
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RG08, Box 96 Kate Hinman ABCFM, Foochow. Diaries, 1907-1932. Kate Hinman (Mrs George W Bailey), AMBFM Foochow (1898-1938).
Extent: 3 boxes containing 13 volumes and one album.
11 diaries with various enclosures including dried flowers, correspondence, clippings, memorabilia; 2 additional “diaries” serve as notebooks or engagement books; 1 photo album and package of “Hand-tinted slides on Life of Jesus and others”, probably also belong to KBH (1908-1961).
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RG08, Box 97 Kate Hinman Diaries, 1933 and 1937.
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RG08, Box 103 Anna Jarvis Methodist Episcopal Church. Letters from Nanking, Peking and Foochow, 1920-1949, including material on the Japanese occupation of Nanking. Anna Moffett Jarvis (Mrs Bruce W Jarvis), MEFB, Peking, Foochow (1920-1949?).
Extent: 1 box.
Contains soft-cover book: “Letters from China, 1920-1949”, 118pp (including diary entries); correspondence and reports regarding Nanking in 1937, 1938 and Occupied Territory in 1937 and 1938; Including material by M Searle Bates and a personal report by Anna E Moffett (Jarvis); includes also some Chinese language material.
RG08, Box 107 Tracey Jones YMCA/Methodist Episcopal Church. The Girl Slavery System of Canton; Will China Have a Red Revolution? Tracey K Jones, YMCA; MEFB, Canton (1917-1928).
Extent: 25 folders.
Contains correspondence; 4pp typed manuscript of “The Girl Slavery System of Canton”; slave contract; poster opposing female slavery; 2 articles about Canton; and pamphlet on “Will China have a Red Revolution?” by Arthur Boggess (pen-name for Tracey Jones).
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RG08, Box 258 E F Knickerbocker China Inland Mission, Ningpo, and American Presbyterian Mission, North. Autobiography describing life in Ningpo, Chekiang Province, and diaries, 1909-10.Edgar F Knickerbocker, CIM, PN: Ningpo, Chekiang Province 1893-1901, 1909-1915.
Extent: 2 boxes, 9 bound volumes.
Two drafts of an autobiographical sketch of Knickerbocker’s life through c1900. Nineteen diary volumes, dating 1909-1927, which provide daily descriptions of his life and work as a missionary in China (1909-1915) and California (19916-1927). These diaries are notable for their regular and detailed entries. They document a typical “preaching” missionary’s methods of work, his opinions about China and his relationships with other missionaries and Chinese Christian workers.
Bound notebook: Handwritten autobiography of EFK
Diaries:
1909 Sep – 1910 May primarily in Ningpo
1910 May – Dec primarily in Ningpo
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RG08, Box 258 E F Knickerbocker Diaries, 1910-1913
1910 Dec – 1911 Jul primarily Ningpo and evangelistic river journeys in China
1911 Jul – 1912 Mar Mokanshan, Ningpo evangelistic journeys
1912 Dec – 1913 Oct Ningpo, evangelistic journey, Mokanshan
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RG08, Box 258 E F Knickerbocker Diaries, 1913-1916
1913 Oct – 1914 Jul Ningpo, evangelistic journeys
1914 Jul – 1915 Apr primarily Ningpo
1915 Apr – 1916 Jan primarily Ningpo
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RG08, Box 113 Lucy Lee American Church Mission, Anking. An American Sojourn in China,
1902-27.Lucy Lee (Mrs Edmund Chaplin), ACM Anking (1902-1907).
Extent: 1 folder.
“An American Soujorn in China”, 59 pp, autobiography (1968).
RG08, Box 113 Thomas Lee Lutheran United Mission. Mimeographed circular letters from Honan, 1947-1949, and Hong Kong, 1949-53 describing life in China before and after the Revolution.Thomas Lee, LUM, 1924-1953, primarily in Honan until 1949 May and in Hong Kong, May 1949 - Feb 1953.
Extent: 1 box.
Papers consist of more than 85 photocopies of mimeographed circular letters. These substantive letters (some ten or more pages) date from 1947 until 1958 and provide valuable detailed information about the Church in China in the years leading up to and following the Communist takeover. Lee had extensive correspondence with Chinese and Western individuals in China while he was working in Hong Kong and received numerous Christian periodicals from China, from which he quotes in his circular letters. He provides specific information describing the work of missionaries who remained in China following the Communist takeover and regarding the status of schools and hospitals in the interior. He provides information about Church activities and conferences in China such as the Enlarged Council of the Lutheran Church in China meeting in January, 1951 and the Peking Christian Conference of April, 1951 where the Accusation Movement was inaugurated. These letters are written from a clearly anti-Communist stance. They provide extensive information regarding the development of the Three Self Movement in China.
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RG08, Box 137 A W March American Presbyterian Mission, North. Diary of a Prisoner of War under Japan, 1941-1942, China to Darrow. A W March, PN Hangchow (1909-1950).
Extent: 1 folder.
Ms: “Diary of a Prisoner of War Under Japan, Dec 8, 1941 to Sep 19, 1942, China to Darrow”, 63 pp (1941-1942).
RG08, Box 236 Margaret Marston American Church Mission. Correspondence and reports from members of the Women’s Missionary Service League of the Chinese Church (Wuhu), 1934-1940, and from indigenous clergy (Shensi, Kiangsu, Hupeh, Hunan, Anhwei) and other materials.Miss Margaret Marston (Mrs Arthur M Sherman), ACM National Council Woman’s Auxiliary New York City.
Extent: 1 folder.
Correspondence and reports from members of the Women’s Missionary Service League of the Chinese Church (Wuhu) (1934-1940) and indigenous clergy (Shensi, Kiangsu, Hupeh, Hnan, Anhwei) report on Kiangsi Christian Rural Service Union by George Shepherd (1936); translation of document Chinese Christians were asked to sign (1950) photos: St James 100th Anniversary (1935); St Boniface (1941); individuals (c1941).
RG08, Box 137 Emma Martin Methodist Episcopal Church. Diary during Siege of Peking, 1900.
Emma Estelle Martin (MD); and Elizabeth Ellen Martin, MEFB Peking, Tientsin, Shanghai Peking Union Medical College (1900-1925).
Extent: 54 folders.
Correspondence, mimeograhed and handwritten, menu, clippings, photos from an album. Diary from siege of Peking (photocopy) 109 pp (1900-1923).
RG08, Harold Matthews ABCFM, Tehsien, Tientsin, Boxes 138-139 Foochow. Seventy-five years of the American Board in North China, 1860-1935, writings about Foochow Mission and Biographical details. Harold Matthews, ABCFM Tehsien, Tientsin, Foochow (1922-1950).
Extent: 2 boxes.
Ms: “Seventy-five years of the American Board in North China. 1860-1935”, 132pp plus appendices etc in 3 envelopes; 5 envelopes of material regarding the above ms (correspondence, reports, etc), 2 envelopes concerning the United Christian Board for World Ministries, “War Claim W-10378 (Foochow)”. Ms: “The Foochow Mission of the American Board”. Ms: “Some Historical Notes concerning the North China Mission of the American Board, 1935-1960”. (1935, 1942, 1970). Obit. (1971).
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RG08, Box 266 Emily Case Mills American Presbyterian Mission, North. Ginling College, Nanking. Correspondence and collected documents, 1925-1927, and writings. Much on Nanking Incident, 1927.Emily Mills, PN, Ginling College, Nanking.
Extent: 3 boxes. Contains:
Letter from Bill Goldrick, Soochow Academy (1925);
Correspondence with family, and account of experiences during Nanking Incident (1927);
Collected documentation of events in Nanking and Shanghai (1927), including accounts by missionaries Thurston, Chester, Vautrin, Marx, Moffett, Treudley;
Newspaper accounts of China situation (1927), including April 2 issue of North China Herald;
Correspondence with family from Ginling College (1931-1932);
Memorabilia regarding Ginling College and the Trans-Siberian Railway (1931-1932, nd);
Writings of ECM, including a number about physical education for women in China (1926-1932);
Photographs: Ginling College: scenes, buildings, faculty and students, physical education activities; China:miscellaneous or unidentified scenes, buildings (including interiors of missionary homes, Temple of Heaven, Peking, Tomb of Sun Yat-Sen, Nanking, Dragon Festival, Shanghai), individuals, groups (including General and Mme Chang Kai-shek), physical education and recreation activities.
Post-China years:
Correspondence/subject files:
Ginling College/Ginling Association in America: Personal correspondence including letters to Eva Spicer and about Wu Yi-fang (1936-1977);
Ginling memorabilia/tributes to former colleagues (1933-1978);
GAA directories, newsletters, announcements, rubber stamp (1953-1981); Ginling Girls’ Middle School, Taiwan (1959-1976);
True Light Foundation (1957-1979).
RG08, Box 141 Samuel Mills American Presbyterian Mission, North. Autobiography describing life in Weihsien, Tengchow Sung, 1911-1933.Samuel John Mills (1886-1970), PN Weihsien, Sung, Tengchow (1911-33).
Extent: 6 folders.
Typed ms: “Samuel J Mills: The China Years, 1886-1933”, clippings (1886-1933); photographs of family.
RG08, Box 281 Edward H Munson YMCA, Foochow, Shanghai. Correspondence and reports from YMCA representatives in China, 1937- 1938. There is much on Nanking and Shanghai during the Sino-Japanese war including reports from Eugene Barnett, George Fitch, C W Petitt, John H D Rabe and S K Tien.
Edward H Munson, YMCA, Shanghai; Born in Grinnell, Iowa. Graduated from Grinnell College. Served under YMCA in Foochow and Shanghai. Died in Kunming, China, 1939.
Extent: 1 box.
This collection contains letters and reports from YMCA representatives in China, which provide valuable information regarding the situations in Shanghai and Nanking during the Sino-Japanese war, 1937 Dec - 1938. Reports by Edward H Munson:
Folder 1: 1937 Dec regarding travels of a YMCA Secretary in South China, 1938 Oct 3 The “Y” Answers the Call. Circular letters and reports from others.
Folder 2: Barnett, Eugene: China Bulletins No 6 & 7, 1937 Dec Mar; Fitch, George: Letter written from Nanking, 1938 Jan 6; Jones, Stanley: “Open Letter to Japan”, nd.
Folder 3: Petitt, C W: “Shanghai Notes” sections 2-5, 1937 Oct-Nov.
Folder 4: Rabe, John D H: talk regarding Nanking International Relief Committee, 1938 Feb 28; Tien S K: “Brief Report of the Boys’ Work of Shanghai YMCA”, 1938 Jul 16; Wilbur, H A: Two letters written from Shanghai, 1937 Oct 13, 15.
Folder 5: Anonymous documents; fragmentary letter from Director of Nanking Safety Zone 1937 Dec 24; extracts of letters to “E A T, Jnr” and “F L T” 1937 Dec – 1938 Jan; “Psychological Impressions of the Japanese under War Time Conditions” 1938 Mar 10; “An Open Letter from a Group of Christian Students in China to Christian; Students in Japan” 1938 Mar 29; “China’s Greatest Danger”, nd; “A Typical Chinese YMCA – in War Time” (Hangchow YMCA), nd. Material donated by Minette Long Munson, 1992.
RG08, Box 144 Augustus Nasmith American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, Chekiang. The Interesting Life of the Ordinary Missionary, 1912-1949.Augustus I Nasmith, ABFMS Chekiang (L.1916-L.1940).
Extent: 1 folder.
Booklet: “The Interesting Life of the Ordinary Missionary 1912-1949” by AIN (1912-1949)
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RG08, Box 153 Martha Parker Church of the Brethren Mission. (Pingtingchow, Shansi and Tzechung, Szechuan). The Story of the Church of the Brethren in China, 1932 to 1950. Martha Neiderhiser Parker (Mrs Daryl M), CBM Pingtingchow, Shansi; Tzechung, Szechuan (1933-1949).
804 typed pp “The Story of the Church of the Brethren in China 1932 to 1950”, compiled from letters, diaries, articles, written or taped interviews with missionaries, and other historical material from the Brethren Historical Library, Elgin, Illinois (1973).
RG08, Box 159 Margaret Prentice Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of Methodist Episcopal Church, Isabella Fisher Hospital, Tientsin, Hopei. Unwelcome at the North East Gate - includes an account of her imprisonment and later internment at Weihsien, 1941-43.Margaret May Prentice, WGMS Isabella Fisher Hospital Tientsin, Hopei (formerly Chihli).
151 pp ms: “Unwelcome at the North East Gate” (c 1966) including an account of her imprisonment and later internment at Weihsein, 1941-1943.
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RG08, Alvin Methodist Episcopal Church South, Boxes Pierson Parker Soochow, Shanghai.
299-301 Diaries, 1879, 1887-1894, 1896-1899.
Alvin Pierson Parker, MES Soochow, Shanghai (1876-1923); Alvin Pierson Parker was a prominent Southern Methodist missionary – a teacher, preacher, writer, editor and translator. He was a founder of the Buffington Institute in Soochow and later taught at the Anglo-Chinese College in Shanghai (1896-1905). He wrote Chinese textbooks for various subjects, wrote for mission periodicals, was a member of the Shanghai Bible Translation Committee.
Extent: 3 boxes.
This collection consists primarily of his diaries (of the Imperial English and Chinese calendar format), from the years 1879 and 1887-1924. The diary entries are regular and legible; they provide excellent documentation of Parker’s work, events occurring in China and Southern Methodist mission politics. The papers are arranged as follows:
I. Diaries: 1879, 1887-1894, 1986-1901, 19102-1909, 1912-1915, 1917, 1920-1922, 1921-1924.
II. Notes, writings: Notebook of shorthand notes; typescript history of China.
III. Biographical information: Biographical articles written by his wife for World Outlook (1932).
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RG08, Alvin Diaries, 1900-1907.Boxes 299-301 Pierson Parker
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RG08, Alvin Diaries, 1908-1909, 1912-1915, Boxes 299-301 Pierson Parker 1917 & 1920.
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RG08, Alvin Diaries, 1921-1924;Boxes 299-301 Pierson Parker History of China; and biographical information.
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RG08, Box 163 Alice Reed ABCFM, Tehchow Sung. Excerpts from correspondence, 1920-40. Alice C Reed, ABCFM Tehchow (L.1921-L.1940).
Extent: 1 folder containing bound typescript of excerpts from correspondence, 1916-1948, 225 pp, with maps.
RG08, Box 236 August Reinhard Houlding South Chihli Mission (1904-18), Milton Stewart Evangelistic Funds (1920-1921, 1925-1934), independent missionary in Shanghai (1936-1940), Shanghai Hebrew Mission (1940-43). Autobiography. August H Reinhard, Houlding South Chihli Mission (1904-1918); Milton Stewart Evangelistic Funds (1920-1921, 1925-1934); Independent Shanghai, Shan (1936-1940); Shanghai Hebrew Mission (1940-1943).
Extent: 1 folder containing Autobiography, 40 pp.
RG08, Box 172 Olga Robinson ABCFM, Lintsing, Tunghsien, 1926-41. Autobiography.Olga Olsen Robinson (Mrs Hugh Laughlin), ABCFM Lintsing, Tunghsein (1926-1941).
Extent: 1 folder.
Memoirs, autobiography, “The Robinson Saga”, 73 p, mimeograph (1974).
RG08, Box 188 Ella Shaw EFMS, Nanking. History of her work in Nanking, 1887-34.Ella C Shaw, EFMS Nanking (1887-1934).
Extent: 1 folder.
34 p mss: “History of Ella C Shaw’s Work in Nanking”, transcribed by Celia B Steward (c 1930).
RG08, Box 188 Ernest Shaw ABCFM, Tunghsien, Peking, 1912-51. Letters from Peking and travel journal. Ernest T Shaw, ABCFM Tungshien, Peking (1912-1951).
Extent: 1 folder.
Letters to his daughter from Peking; 176pp account of his trip to China. Biographical material (1950, 1951; 1912-1915).
RG08, Box 188 Elizabeth Shrader ABCFM, Foochow. Writings and papers, 1929-1942, including: Canopy of Heaven; Baby & a Bamboo Chair; The Chinese Renaissance & the Christian Missionary and other items. Elizabeth T Shrader (Mrs Ralph R?), ABCFM Foochow (1936-1942).
Extent: 8 folders.
Writings by ETS in ms and printed format, including “Baby and a Bamboo Chair”, “Canopy of Heaven”, “Students-1929” and photocopy of magazine articles, list of Nanking Language School class of 1920, photo, 3 scrolls (1920-1940, 1969-1970).
RG08, Box 188 Horace and China Inland Mission. Gertrude Sibley All the Days of Our Life. Describes work in Shae-ki-tien Ho. (1890), Laohokow Hup (1892-99, 1902) and Ku Cheng (1903-11).Horace and Gertrude Haugh Sibley, YMCA, Nebraska (1890) CIM, Shae-ki-tien, Honan (1891); Lap-ho-kow, Hupeh (1892-1898, 1902); Ku Cheng (1903-1911).
Extent: 1 folder.
“All the Days of Our Life” (1945)
RG08, Box 188 John A Silsby American Presbyterian Mission, North. Letters and diary excerpts (1887-1890s, 1913, 1926) describing life in Shanghai. John Alfred Silsby, PN South Gate, Shanghai (Lowrie Institute) (1887-1928).
Extent: 8 folders.
Correspondence 1887-1926, diary, fragments, photos of missionaries (1887-1890s, c 1913, 1926).
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RG08, Box 195 Mabelle Smith American Presbyterian Mission, North. Notes on missionary work in Ningpo, 1894-1936; Diaries, 1928-1942. Mabelle Smith, (Mrs Elleroy Smith), PN Ningpo (1916-1950).
ECS: 35 diaries with daily entries, 1916-1950. MCS: 5 diaries and 1 notebook with daily entries 1928-1952; 3 mss by MCS re Ningpo mission field; 1 article by J E Shoemaker (1916-1952).
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RG08, Box 195 Mabelle Smith Diaries, 1944-1952
RG08, Box 200 Adelia Starrett YMCA/Methodist Episcopal Church. Writings and papers, 1933-34, including: Pioneering in West China; and an account of the Japanese attack on Hong Kong. Adelia Dodge Starrett (Mrs Oscar G), YMCA; MEFB Chengtu (L.1916-L.1934).
Extent: 3 folders, 1 envelope.
Pamphlet: “The Story of the Christian Colleges in China”, series on “Pioneering in West China” from THE CHINA CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, two poems, 10pp, description of Japanese attack on Hong Kong, speech: “The Communist Regime in China is Unstable and Shaky” delivered by Dr Hu Shih at United Nations (1957). (1933-1934, c 1941, 1957, nd).
RG08, Box 203 David Tappan American Presbyterian Mission, North. Reminiscences of experiences at Canton Civil Assembly Center, 1943. David Stanton Tappan, PN Kiungchow, Hainan (1906-1950).
Extent: 1 folder.
Ms recounting his experiences at Canton Civil Assembly Center (1943).
RG08, Box 203 Mary Treudley Ginling College, Nanking. The Personal Experiences of C Stanley Smith During the Looting of the Foreign Sections of Nanking, 1927; and Realities in an unreal world. Mary Bosworth Treudley, Nanking, Peking Ginling College (1923-1928).
Extent: 4 folders.
Correspondence regarding Ginling College; pamphlet on Ginling College; Report, “The Personal Experiences of C Stanley Smith During the Looting of the Foreign Sections of Nanking, 1927 (1927).
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RG08, Box 236 Jesse and Methodist Episcopal Church/ABCFM. Clara Wolfe Our China. Describes work in Takuhsien, Shansi (1912-1922), Tientsin, Chihli (1923-1925), and at Cheloo University, Tsinan, Shantung (1928-1935) and Peking University (1936-1940). Jesse B Wolfe and Clara Husted Whiting, MEFB Peking University (1909-1912) ABCFM Takhsien, Shansi (1912-1922) Tientsin, Chihli (1923-1925) Cheloo University Tsinan, Shantung (1928-1935) Peking (1936-1940).
Extent: 1 folder.
399 pp typed mss: “Our China.”
RG08, Box 221 Harry and Methodist Episcopal Church, Foochow. Zela Worley Correspondence, 1931-1932;
Correspondence, 1940-1945;
Correspondence, 1946-1949;
Correspondence, 1950-1953, 1955;
Notes from my diary, 1941; Notes on reports of conferences with Premier Chou En-Lai regarding the church; Material on Methodist Centennial; One Hundred Years Planting; Anglo-Chinese College High School, 1934.
Harry Westcott Worley and Zela W Worley (Mrs Harry W), MEFB Foochow (1915-1940).
Extent: 1 box.
Correspondence, “Notes from my Diary”, HWW, 1941, “From My ‘Line-Day’”, ZWW, 1941; various material re Methodist Centennial (1947) including 21pp script for a historical pageant, official badge, printed material including “Anglo-Chinese College High School, 1934”, ms: “notes on Reports of Conferences with Premier Chow En-lai Regarding the Christian Church in China”, autograph book given on 50th birthday of HWW, photos, copy of fneral service (c 1900, 1931-1955).
RG08, Box 222 Elizabeth Wright YMCA, Peking. Memoirs of life in Peking, 1919-1948. Eleanor Wright, PN Nanking Ginling College (1926-1939).
Extent: 2 folders.
3 diaries 1927-1939, memoriam, “Ye Shall Be My Witnesses”, 1939 (1927-1939).
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