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Box 3

 File — Box: 3
Identifier: id298490
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...
Dates: 1845-1897; Majority of material found in 1845-1885

Chit Book, 1880's

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 1
Identifier: id299393
Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Leather covered book boards, lined with velvet, with fabric straps in interior for keeping tickets and other ephemera. One side included a pressed flower inside a folded piece of paper with handwritten labeling, "With Care / Flower from Stevenson's funeral and grave," possibly Robert Louis Stevenson.  Other side contains a piece of paper with typed text "CONSULATE GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, APIA SAMOA, _____________ 188." Leather covered board sleeve is...
Dates: 1880's

Essays and Notes, 1872, 1877, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Identifier: id102481
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...
Dates: 1872, 1877, undated

Finances - Loose Accounts, 1868-1885

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Identifier: id298502
Scope and Contents

Loose ledger accounts from various businesses and expense accounts for Robert Nelson while in Shanghai and St. Paul's Parish. 11 pieces.

Dates: 1868-1885

Finances - Account Ledgers

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: id299840
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...
Dates: 1845-1897; Majority of material found in 1845-1885

Foreign Service Related

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Identifier: id102314
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...
Dates: 1845-1897; Majority of material found in 1845-1885

Missionary Conference at Shanghai, 1877

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Identifier: id102544
Scope and Contents

3 copies of the Directory of the Members of the Conference held May 10 - 22, 1877.  Booklet of hymns sung at the Missionary Conference printed by the Presbyterian Mission Press in Shanghai. 3 copies of the Programme of the Missionary Conference.

Dates: 1877

Photograph of Rev. Robert Nelson, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Identifier: id300053
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...
Dates: undated

Printed Material, 1873-1885

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: id298542
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...
Dates: 1873-1885

Recipes, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Identifier: id298738
Scope and Contents

Handwritten recipes and a description of meal courses entitled "Lady Clark." 2 items.

Dates: undated

"Confucianism in relation to Christianity" - Essay, 1872

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Identifier: id299120
Scope and Contents Handwritten transcriptions of the positive comments that Rev. Robert Nelson received about his review of D. [James] Legge's essay on "Confucianism in relation to Christianity." Comments were received from Rev. T.P. Crawford, at Tung Chow [China], Rev. E.H. Thomson, at Tung Chow [China], Rev. Charles R. Mills, at Tung Chow [China], Rev. C.W. Mateer, at Tung Chow [China], Rev. C.W. Mateer, at Tung Chow [China], Rev. E.W. Style, at Yed-o, Japan, Rev. Dr. Edkins, at Peking [China], Rev. Dr....
Dates: 1872

Disraeli and Darwin Notes and Essay, undated

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Identifier: id299132
Scope and Contents

Essay and notes on Disraeli, undated. Notes on Darwinism written on four small pieces of paper, undated.

Dates: undated

Cash Account Ledger, 1853-1855

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: id299981
Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Account ledger of Rev. Robert Nelson while a missionary in China. Includes an index with the following entries: Rt. Rev. W.J. Boone, Rev. Wong Kwong Chai, Miss Lydia Mary Fay, Miss Catharine E. Jones, Miss Emma G. Jones, Rev. Cleveland Keith, Rev. E.W. Pyle, Miss Caroline P. Tenney, Nang Doo-Dong, John T. Points, Ton Chu Kiung, Moneys Received, Miscellaneous, Bill Account, Missionary Society, Girls' Schools, General Repairs, Credits, and Quarterly Balance. 108 pages. 71/4"...
Dates: 1853-1855

Account Book, 1867-1879

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: id299999
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Account book of Rev. Robert Nelson while a missionary in Shanghai, China. Personal and missionary related accounts. No index. 138 pages. 6 1/2" x 4".  Purchased in 1938.

Dates: 1867-1879

Count of Missionaries and Staff in China, 1807-1874

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Identifier: id102542
Scope and Contents

A table showing the number of missionaries in China, grouped by English, American, and German with religious denominations under each group. Tallies are in columns for clerical, medical, female, whether married or single beside each denomination. Dates are from 1807 to 1874.

Dates: 1807-1874

Diary Entries While in Japan, 1872

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Identifier: id102496
Scope and Contents

Itinerary and daily entries of Rev. Robert Nelson while visiting Japan, written on one sheet of paper. September 6 to November 18, 1872.

Dates: 1872

List of Chinese confirmed by Bishop Schereschewsky, 1879

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Identifier: id102501
Scope and Contents

List of Chinese confirmed by Bishop Schereschewsky in the Church of Our Savior at Hong Kew [China], divided by male and female. The heading is written in English but the names are written in Chinese. January 12, 1879 and September 14, 1879.

Dates: 1879

Chinese Building Permit, 1879

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Identifier: id102513
Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Building permit issued to Rev. Robert Nelson by David H. Bailey, U.S. Consul General at Shanghai, and Lui[?], His Majesty's Intendant of Circuit for the Department of Soo, Sung, and Tae. The document grants Rev. R. Nelson "the owner of certain land registered in the United States Consulate Geneal as No. 52" to build "any houses or tenements of whatsoever...for the occupation of Chines and for letting or permitting the same to be leased or let to Chinese." Written in...
Dates: 1879

Resignation of Rev. Robert Nelson from the Foreign Missionary Work, [1881]

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Identifier: id102516
Scope and Contents

Typed extract of a resolution in the minutes of the Foreign Committee of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America approving the resignation of Rev. Robert Nelson as a Foreign Missionary. Miss Mary C. Nelson resigned at the same time. February 8, [1881].

Dates: [1881]

"A Plain Review of the Rev. Dr. Littledale's Tract on Real Presence", 1881

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: id299048
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Booklet entitled "A Plain Review of the Rev. Dr. Littledale's Tract on Real Presence" [By Benjamin J. Douglass?] New York. 1881.

Dates: 1881

"Southern Churchman", 1885

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: id299056
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Complete copy of the "Southern Churchman", Richmond, Virginia, March 5, 1885.

Dates: 1885

"Buy Your Own Cherries", undated

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: id299062
Scope and Contents

Booklet entitled "Buy Your Own Cherries," a Ballard printed by the American Sunday-School Union in Philadelphia, undated.

Dates: undated

Bismarck Cafe Postcards, undated

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: id299068
Scope and Contents

2 postcards for the Bismarck Cafe in Cincinnati, Ohio, one with the picture of Bessie Barriscale and the other with the picture of Rita Jolivet. Undated.

Dates: undated

"Christmas Card", 1876

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: id299074
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Brochure type card entitled "Christmas Card, a gift to the Members of the Foreign Missionary Box Association of the Protestant Episcopal Church" with messages from many missionaries about the death of Richard B. Duane, D.D., the late Secretary and General Agent, 1876.

Dates: 1876

Woman's Mission Auxiliary, 1873

 Item — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: id299084
Scope and Contents

Pamphlet of the Trinity Church, Woman's Association of Christ Church in Rye, New Jersey, Auxiliary to the Board of Missions. Includes their articles of organization, constitution and list of officers, circa 1873.

Dates: 1873