Accompanied by printed guides.

Originals located at the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University; Yale University, Divinity School Library.

Correspondence of the Fairbank family, 1837-1945. This American missionary family were largely active in India and Ceylon, but their papers provide many insights into Western attitudes to, and interactions with, Asian cultures. Yearly letters from a missionary friend in Foochow describe the turbulent events and political climate there between 1911-1931, including the Foochow Rebellion of 1911. (Reels 8-15)

Diaries and papers of Martha E. (Foster) Crawford, American missionary, covering 1846-1881. Born in Alabama, Crawford went to China as a missionary in 1851, working in Shanghai and Tung Chow. Her diaries describe her experiences, and there is also a manuscript history of missions in China written by Crawford. (Reels 16-17)

Papers of Arthur Gallimore, American missionary, c.1933. These papers describe the work of the South China Mission of the Southern Baptist Convention among the Hakkas in Wai Chow. (Reel 17)

Letters of Catherine Ella Jones, American missionary, for the period 1852-1863. Jones worked for the Episcopal Church mission in Shanghai for c.10 years until she died of smallpox in 1863. Letters of Eliza H. Jones, American missionary, c.1848. Her letters describe a baptist mission in Shanghai. (Reel 20)

Papers of Nina Cordelia Mitchell. These include letters of her cousin Gertrude C. Gilman, about her missionary work at Boone University in Wuchang, where her husband was the president. Gillman discusses international politics, the Chinese Civil War, natural disasters there, the deportation of Chinese missionaries, the opium trade, the selling of Chinese girls into slavery, and the need for a rescue home for Chinese girls. (Reel 24)

Papers of Thomas A. Nicholson, American physician, for the period 1857-1905. Nicholson sailed to East Asia as commodore's secretary. He comments on social customs and Christianity in Japan and China, describes a wealthy plantation in China and the embassy in Japan. (Reel 25A)

pt. 1-pt. 2. Sources from the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University (reels 1-30)

pt. 3. The papers of J.A. Thomas, c1905-1923; from the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University (reels 31-47)

pt. 4-pt. 5. Manuscript Diaries and Papers from the China Records Project at Yale Divinity Library (reels 48-88)

pt. 6. Correspondence and Papers of Sir Ernest Satow (1843-1929) relating to China from the Public Record Office, Class PRO 30/33 (reels 89-103)

pt. 7. The diaries of G. E. Morison (1862-1920) from the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. ML MSS 312/2 & 3, Diaries, 1878-1881 (reels 104-123)

pt. 8. Diaries, Notebooks and Writings of Rewi Alley (1897-1987) from the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand (reels 124-138)

pt. 9. The Addis and Geller Collections from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London (reels 1-14)

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