Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, sermons, essays and accounts of Robert Nelson, Protestant Episcopal missionary to Shanghai, China. The collection Includes two account books, a lettercopy book, and articles written by Nelson as well as two manuscript Chinese-English dictionaries compiled by Nelson. Some items, such as a "Count of Missionaries and Staff in China, 1807-1874" illuminate the history of missionaries in China. There is one letter written to Nelson in which the writer has used Wade-Giles...

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Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, at New York, to Robert Nelson, at Brooklyn, N.Y. [Original letter and a copy.]

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A. A. Hayes to Mrs. R[obert] Nelson, at Brooklyn, NY.

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Robert Nelson, at Brooklyn, [N.Y.] to A. A. Hayes. Enclosures: "The Ritualistic Character of the China Mission," an article by Robert Nelson, August, 1882. A Copy of a letter from Robert Nelson, at Brooklyn, to Joshua Kimber, Secretary of the Foreign Committee of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, [at New York]. 13 Dec 1882.

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Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, at New York. A printed circular letter.

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S. T. Abernathy, Corresponding Secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, to Dr. [Robert] Nelson.

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James Stoddard, at Watertown, Connecticut, to Dr. [Robert] Nelson.

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John Mac Leod, at Louisville, to Prof. James P. Nelson, at Frankfort, Ky.

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The General Fireproofing Co., at Youngstown, Ohio, to James P. Nelson, at Lexington, Ky. Enclosures: 3 blueprints.

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S. L. Clark, at Hartford, to Rev. [?].

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Elliott H. Thomson to Manager of Oriental Bank Co. undated.