'The MMS & The History of our work in China. An Essay about Essays' by Donald B Childe

Photocopy of an annotated typescript work subtitled 'What should be the policy of the MMS concerning the writing & the preservation of a record of our contribution to Christian missionary enterprise in China'. Work therefore compises notes of the statement made by Childe on 12 July 1979 in the p...

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Order number: MMS/Special Series/Notes and Transcripts 2/Box 1217
Date(s) of creation: c1980
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Order number: MMS/Special Series/Notes and Transcripts 2/Box 1217
Summary: Photocopy of an annotated typescript work subtitled 'What should be the policy of the MMS concerning the writing & the preservation of a record of our contribution to Christian missionary enterprise in China'. Work therefore compises notes of the statement made by Childe on 12 July 1979 in the presence of officers of the MMS including its General Secretary the Rev Dr A[lbert] Mosley, Miss Betty Hares, Rev Gordon Shaw and Mrs Ellis, Archivist, with additional information added by Childe later.
Previous numbers: MCH Acc No 114
Extent: 27 pages
Admin history: Rev Donald Braithwaite Childe (1901-1993) served the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society as a missionary in their South China District from 1930 to 1949 and as MMS Secretary for China and Burma from 1949 (adding India and Sri Lanka in 1959) until 1965.
Custodial history: Gift to the Methodist Church Overseas Department from the Rev Donald B Childe
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright held by Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
User restrictions: For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
Language: English
Scripts: Latin
Format: Archive