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1. Mss Eur F744

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F744
Title:
Morison Family Papers
Scope & Content:
Papers of Donald Morison (1846-1900), medical missionary in Bengal, and his wife Isabella Morison (nee Murray) (b 1856)
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-2015
Extent:

15 folders

2. Mss Eur F744/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F744/1
Title:
Correspondence between Donald Morrison and Isabella Murray
Scope & Content:
In the correspondence, Donald writes via his sister Margaret Morison proposing marriage to Isabella Murray, and asking that she join him in India. The letters were typed up from the original letters by Isabella's son John Morison in the 1950's. The location of the original letters is not known.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 folder

3. Mss Eur F744/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F744/2
Title:
Letters from Donald Morison to his wife Isabella
Scope & Content:
The letters describe tours around the Rajshahi Division of Bengal distributing medicines, and the work of the mission at Rampur Boalia. There are letters from a return trip to India from the UK via the USA, Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore in 1892. There are also letters written in 1897 fr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-1899
Extent:
1 folder

4. Mss Eur F744/3

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F744/3
Title:
Letters from Isabella Morison to her husband Donald
Scope & Content:
4 letters to her husband Donald, 1897-1899; and 1 to an unknown recipient (no first page or date). Includes a typed transcript of one of the letters to Donald Morison, dated 30th March 1899.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1897-1899
Extent:
1 folder

5. Mss Eur F744/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F744/4
Title:
Letters from Donald and Isabella Morison to their daughter Jess
Scope & Content:
The letters were written from Rampur Boalia, and are mostly concerned with family matters and news of the work of the mission.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1893-1899
Extent:
1 folder

6. Mss Eur F744/5

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F744/5
Title:
Transcripts of letters
Scope & Content:
Transcripts of some of the original letters in Mss Eur F744/2 and Mss Eur F744/4
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1879-1899
Extent:
1 folder

7. Mss Eur F744/6

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F744/6
Title:
Two books of copy letters from Donald Morison to various receipients
Scope & Content:
Includes letters to family and colleagues
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1878-1880
Extent:
1 folder containing 2 notebooks

8. Mss Eur F744/7

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F744/7
Title:
Typescript copies of letters from Donald Morison to Mr Matheson, Foreign Mission Secretary, Presbyterian Church of England
Scope & Content:
Transcripts of a letter dated 12 August 1878, and part of a letter dated 26 August 1878, copied from the letter book in Mss Eur F744/6
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1878
Extent:
1 folder

9. Mss Eur F744/8

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F744/8
Title:
Letters from Donald Matheson to Donald Morison
Scope & Content:
Five original letters and typescript copies
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1887-1895
Extent:
1 folder

10. Mss Eur F744/9

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F744/9
Title:
Miscellaneous letters
Scope & Content:
The folder contains the following five letters: Photocopy of a letter from David Grant, Durham, to Dr and Mrs Morison, 12 August 1879. Letter from Robert Morison (aged 7) to his parents, 29 June 1887 (with transcript). Letter from Donald Morison, Machrie Bay, Arran, to Mrs Hudson, 22 August 189...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1879-1899
Extent:
1 folder

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