Personal private and confidential letters to and from China and East Asia missionaries (A-M)
Correspondence (formerly identified as personal or confidential) with missionaries dealing with appointments, re-deployments, problems with other missionaries, etc. Some interesting material on the re-deployment of China missionaries c1950 and conditions in Communist China. Includes correspondence w...
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/1951-1960/Box EA/27 |
|---|---|
| Date(s) of creation: |
1947-1955 |
| Level: |
File |
| Format: | Archive |
| Order number: |
CWM/LMS/1951-1960/Box EA/27 |
|---|---|
| Summary: |
Correspondence (formerly identified as personal or confidential) with missionaries dealing with appointments, re-deployments, problems with other missionaries, etc. Some interesting material on the re-deployment of China missionaries c1950 and conditions in Communist China. Includes correspondence with Dr Douglas J. Harman (re Changchow Union Hospital, 1949 and 1952), Miss J. Bryson (re Miss Eva Spicer & depolyment to possible vacancy at Tiger Kloof, 1957), Rev A. J. Haile (re Miss Eva Spicer and Miss Marion Ginger, 1951), Rev Withers Green (1951 & 1955), Rev D. E. Legge, Dr D. Lehmann (re possible opening for ex-China missionary in the Copper Belt, 1951), Philip Lee-Wolff, Peiping, 1949, account of life under the new regime in China). Also includes correspondence re Miss G. A. Morris, who is described as "half caste" [mixed race] and her missionary posting in relation to "the question of the colour bar" - Rev Orchard asks about "the position of the colour bar" in the Pacific field. |
| Extent: |
1 file |
| Custodial history: | From a selection of files comprising mainly correspondence between Rev R.K. Orchard and Rev F. Short. Orchard was LMS Secretary for China & Africa. Short was representative of the LMS Board for Southeast Asia (based in Hong Kong). |
| Acquisition: |
Transferred to SOAS from Council for World Mission offices in 2005 |
| Access status: |
Open |
| Copyright: | Copyright owned by Council for World Mission |
| Language: | English |
| Scripts: |
Latin |
| Format: | Archive |