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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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.

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

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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.

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...

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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].