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Collection
Identifier: SC 01144
Scope and Contents
Diary of reverend and missionary Arthur Samuel Burt (1846-1890). His last entry is was made about 4 months before his death and mentions handing over the church’s ministry to someone else as his health is deteriorating. The entire journal is about his ministry, funerals, conventions, visitations, marriages, his travels and family. Burt visited many people in the area and lists most of them by their full name. At the end of his life he lives in New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts. Also...
Dates:
1882-1890
Collection
Identifier: SC 01566
Scope and Contents
22 letters addressed to family members of Leavenworth, Kansas from a Methodist mission in India. Most of the area in India where Blackmar was located was in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, including Moradabad and Lucknow. Blackmar was serving as a missionary during the great famine of India from 1876-1878 and comments on the conditions of the region in great detail in her letters. In one letter she states, "All the Spring crops have failed, and unless there be rain within a few days,...
Dates:
1873-1882
Collection
Identifier: SC 01893
Content Description
Contains one letter from Eliza A. Crane, a missionary in Iran during the nineteenth century. The letter is addressed to her mother, Julia R.W. Crane in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. Within the letter is a description of Eliza Crane's life in Oroomiah, present day Orumiyeh, Iran. She speaks of her family and the consequences of the snowy weather in Iran.
Dates:
1854 February, 17
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS 00072
Content Description
About 80 letters and a small diary of the family of Pastor Edward Hilliard, missionaries to the Tonga in the South Pacific, Melbourne, Australia, Tazmania, and Bangalore, India. The Hilliards were the first Seventh Day Adventist missionaries to the island of Tongo in 1895. Edward and his wife built a home and established a school while there. They also brought two Tongan boys into their home to train them to become future missionaries. The letters focus on the teaching the family does as...
Dates:
1882 - 1937
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.305
Scope and Contents
Papers of Helen L. Johnson, circa 1925-1940, covering her activities with the Methodist Episcopal Church Woman's Home Missionary Society. Materials include letters addressed to Johnson, photographs, programs, fliers, prayers and religious songs and other ephemera of a religious nature. Geographic areas covered include Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, and New York State.
Dates:
1900-1982; Majority of material found in 1925-1940
Collection
Identifier: SC 01568
Scope and Contents
Four page letter addressed to her brother from Evangasimba on the island of Corisco off the coast of Africa. She describes her journey and extended length to sail from Boston to Africa because of the lack of winds and favorable conditions for the vessel. Despite that and a quick, but destructive tornado, the journey across the Atlantic, according to Latta, was a very pleasant one. Upon her arrival in Corisco Latta presented with a few welts or sores on the back of her hand. She thought...
Dates:
1860 November 29
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 L48
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers of Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, Presbyterian clergyman relating to his theological studies at Andover, Massachusetts and New Haven, Connecticut and his ministry at Waterbury and Bristol, Connecticut, Charlotte, North Carolina and Warrenton and Petersburg, Virginia. Includes correspondence and accounts, 1835-1838, with Turner & Hughes, booksellers in Raleigh, North Carolina. Includes correspondence with his wife Elizabeth M. Peabody Leavenworth and a letter, 1832,...
Dates:
1825-1850
Collection
Identifier: SC 00722
Scope and Contents
Diary, 1938-1958, of Lyla Sivesind of Minnesota. Sivesind went on four separate missionary trips: in 1938 to France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway; in 1940 to Hawaii and locations in Asia; in 1948 to Egypt and Italy; and her final trip is to Italy and Israel.
Dates:
1938-1958
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 N34
Scope and Contents
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
Collection
Identifier: SC 01382
Content Description
6 page letter from Mr. Nesmith to his sister from Vicksburg, Mississippi. He describes rowing with a friend along the river, working, and writes a lot about society, politics, and his impression of African American life since the Civil War.
Dates:
1867 January 12
Collection
Identifier: SC 00063
Scope and Contents
This small collection consists of a diary kept by Eunice A. Will, wife of Reverend Vincent Will while serving as missionaries for the Lutheran Church in Pakistan in 1955. In it she gives a synopsis of her daily routines and records finances.She also keeps a lengthy list of grocieries in her daily writings.
Dates:
1955
Collection
Identifier: SC 01705
Content Description
2 letters, a total of five pages, written by Rev. James M. Priest to Rev. Daniel Wells, and Hon. Walter Lowrie respectively. Rev. Priest was a formerly enslaved person, freed on the condition that he emigrate as a missionary to Africa. In both letters, Rev. Priest complains about the lack of funds being provided to his mission and the school he founded in Liberia.
Dates:
September 22nd, 1843 - October 8th, 1853
