'Letters Home from Emily M Ewins. An on the spot record of revolutionary events in Hankow and Wuchang, Central China 1911-1912'

Typescript containing transcriptions of letters written by Emily Ewins to her family from Hankow [Wuhan] between 15 October and 10 December 1911 regarding the events unfolding around her and a letter from Wuchang [Wuhan] on 3 November 1912 explaining circumstances a year later. Edited with preface b...

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Order number: MMS/Special Series/Notes and Transcripts 2/Box 1219A
Date(s) of creation: 1989
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Order number: MMS/Special Series/Notes and Transcripts 2/Box 1219A
Summary: Typescript containing transcriptions of letters written by Emily Ewins to her family from Hankow [Wuhan] between 15 October and 10 December 1911 regarding the events unfolding around her and a letter from Wuchang [Wuhan] on 3 November 1912 explaining circumstances a year later. Edited with preface by HMR [Harold Morley Rattenbury].
Extent: 41 pages
Admin history: Emily Mary Ewins (1886-1973) served the Women's Association of the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society in education in their Wuchang District, China, from 1909 to 1934. In 1914 she married the Methodist missionary Harold Burgoyne Rattenbury (1878-1961).
Custodial history: Gift to the Methodist Church Overseas Division from Rev Morley Rattenbury, February 1990
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright held by author
User restrictions: For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
Language: English
Scripts: Latin
Format: Archive