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...

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Archive & Special Collections CWM/LMS/15/07/346 Open

Order number: CWM/LMS/1951-1960, Box EA/27
Date(s) of creation: 1947-1955
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.15.07.346
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/1951-1960, Box EA/27
callnumber CWM/LMS/15/07/346
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/15/07/346
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/15/07/346
prefix_number 346
title Personal private and confidential letters to and from China and East Asia missionaries (A-M)
scb_date_creation 1947-1955
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 1 file
format Archive
scb_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).
scb_acquisition Transferred to SOAS from Council for World Mission offices in 2005
description 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.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright owned by Council for World Mission
language English
language_search English
scb_scripts_material Latin
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0015.0007.00346

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