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...

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"...

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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.