Mostly letters from ABCFM secretaries Nathanial Clark (1825-1896) and James L. Barton (1855-1936) to ACM missionaries William W. Howland (1817-1892) and T.S. Smith (1845-1900). Also includes a letter dated Dec. 1892 from Mary Leitch (1851-?) to Nathanial Clark detailing the relationship between ...
Mostly copies of letters from the secretaries of the American Ceylon Mission to the secretaries of the ABCFM. Primary writers are Thomas S. Scott, Giles G. Brown, and W.E. Hitchcock, successive ACM secretaries. Primary recipients are Dr. J.L. Barton and Dr. Enoch F. Bell (secretaries of the ABCF...
Letters from the Women's Board of Missions secretary Kate G. Lawson to Susan Howland in Uduvil, Ceylon. One letter from Howland to Lawson. The letters explain and formally lay out the yearly appropriations for the mission work in Ceylon, including salaries for the women missionaries and funding ...
Primarily letters to the American Ceylon Mission from secretaries of other organizations such as James L. Barton of the ABCFM, Kate G. Lawson of the Women's Board, and M.G. Brooks of the YMCA. Other senders include Rev. Enoch F. Bell and Rev. Dr. Henry Scudder. Recepients include Rev. John Bickn...
Letters primarily to and from South India (Kodaikanal, Palamcottah, etc.), primarily between Miss Agnes H. Morris and Rev. A.A. Ward, and between Ward and Carl W. Phelps, principal of the Kodaikkanal School. The letters pertain to the upkeep and rental of houses in Kodaikkanal over the summer mo...
Primarily letters to and from Rev. A.A. Ward, treasurer of the ACM, regarding the houses in Kodaikanal owned by the mission and rented out especially over the summer months to missionary families. Kodaikanal was a hill-station favored for its temperate climate (similar to English weather) though...
Ninteenth Century Sundry Mission Reports, c. 1840-1901
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From Professor Bernard Bate's finding aid: "These represent a coherent categorical unit based on uniformity of subject matter, shelf proximity, and uniformity of paper and binding.... They consist primarily of mss. notebooks without covers or bindings." (2005). The first 8 files from this series...
This fragment contains letters from Rev. Levi Spaulding (1791-1873) in Uduvil, sent to various recepients such as John W. Kingman, Brother Webb, Rev. Miron Winslow (1789-1864), and Rev. E.P. Hastings (1821-1890). One of the letters addressed to Winslow details 11 "Good Results" of the ACM before...
Mission letter for 1864 written by Rev. Levi Spaulding. Letter is split into categories and contains a detailed index. Include: tabular view of the ACM's ten churchesl updates on the Sabbath schoolsl statistics on native contributions to mission objects like churches, schools, pastors, etc.; inf...
Includes two items bound together with string: (1) blue and brown paper manuscript notebook fragment including a draft and final copy of the Annual Report of the American Ceylon Mission for 1871 (signed by Rev. William E. DeReimer and Samuel F. Green), and one version of the Report for 1872. Inc...