China, correspondence

Correspondence relating to the China missions and districts of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society and Methodist Missionary Society, 1851-1950. Correspondence primarily consists of letters from missionaries to the secretaries of the Society regarding their work and from the district chairman o...

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Archive & Special Collections MMS/12/02 Open

Date(s) of creation: 1851-1950
Level: Series
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber MMS/12/02
callnumber_txt MMS/12/02
callnumber-sort MMS/12/02
prefix_number 02
title China, correspondence
scb_date_creation 1851-1950
scb_level Series
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format Archive
description Correspondence relating to the China missions and districts of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society and Methodist Missionary Society, 1851-1950. Correspondence primarily consists of letters from missionaries to the secretaries of the Society regarding their work and from the district chairman on issues concerning missionary work within their district. Some later files also include copies of outgoing letters sent to missionaries and district chairman by the secretaries. General correspondence dates from 1936. Correspondence for specific areas is available as follows: Canton [i.e., Guangzhou] (1851-1905), Hunan (1907-), Hupeh [i.e., Hubei] (1905-), Ningpo [i.e., Ningbo] (1933-), North China (1933-), South China (1905-), Southwest China (1932-), Wenchow [i.e., Wenzhou] (1933-) and Wuchang [i.e., Wuchang district, Wuhan] (1877-1905).
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
scb_scripts_material Latin
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hierarchy_sequence MMS.0012.0002

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