Correspondence from Gladys Aylward to Janice Reid

The collection includes three personal letters from Gladys Aylward to Janice Reid, written after Aylward spoke at Reid's family church in Australia in the early 1960s. The letters give news of Aylward's family, her mission work, and her orphanage (9 August 1962 - 26 March 1963). Also included are on...

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Date(s) of creation: 1962-1963
Level: Collection
Format: Archive           

Reference number: MS 381311
Summary: The collection includes three personal letters from Gladys Aylward to Janice Reid, written after Aylward spoke at Reid's family church in Australia in the early 1960s. The letters give news of Aylward's family, her mission work, and her orphanage (9 August 1962 - 26 March 1963). Also included are one photograph of Aylward with Clifford and Gordon, two adopted children (March 1963), a Christmas card from You-May Wong to Janice Reid, enclosing dried leaves and cut-outs of butterflies (undated). Loose autograph book pages, containing the signatures collected by Reid of Gladys Aylward (in English and Chinese), March 1964, as well as Beth Barrington, Sir Robert Allingham George (Governor of South Australia, 1953-1960) and his wife Sybil Elizabeth George, and a newspaper cutting of an photograph of Alyward. 2pp, and ‘Hymn sheet visit of Miss Gladys Aylward to South Australia, 15-20th March, 1961’. Typescript. 8pp.
Main author: Aylward; Gladys (1902-1970); missionary
Extent: 1 folder
Admin history: Gladys Aylward was born in 1902 in Edmonton, North London. Following service as a housemaid, and rejection by the China Inland Mission, she went to China as an independent missionary. Travelling on the Trans-Siberian Railway to Tientsin she then continued to the province of Shansi in North-West China, where she worked from 1931. She became a Chinese citizen in 1936. In 1940, against the background of civil war between Nationalist government troops and the Communists, Japanese invasion, and the ever-present threat of bandits, she led a group of ... View more
Acquisition: Donated to SOAS Library in June 2017 and 2020
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright holder unknown
User restrictions: For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
Language: English
Scripts: Latin
Format: Archive           
Subjects:
Access Points - Person, Corporate & Family Names:
Name Code Person, Corporate or Family Name Type of Entity
GB/NNAF/P139810 Aylward; Gladys (1902-1970); missionary Person
Access Points - Places:
Place Code Place Name
6255147 Asia
7729894 Eastern Asia