Methodist Missionary Society Archives

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School of Oriental and African Studies, London IDC Introduction

The filming of important missionary archives has The small amount of correspondence from London a dual purpose: the original, unique documents is listed in the Home and General section Outgoing arepreserved for the future and copiescan be Letters and the records of the organisation in made available easily and cheaply for distribution London are also listed in the Home and General to scholarly institutes all over the world. series. In addition, the Special Series contain rec- ords complementing the main series, including the The Archives of the Methodist Church, Overseas Notes and Transcripts and Biographical papers, Division(Methodist MissionarySociety), date which consist ofprivate collections of missionaries back some 200 years and have proved a unique and researchers deposited with the Society at and fruitful source of information to the four various times. The Candidate Papers are not an to five hundred researchers a year from all over extensive collection and most personnel records the world who have used them. The Archives refer remain with the Society. to the Work of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society inAfrica, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Caribbean region and North America, and include, Women's Work Collection for instance, minutes of the first General Commit- This series of records relates to the work of women tee in 1804, records of the Primitive Methodists, missionaries employed by the Wesleyan Methodist finance ledgers, missionary correspondence from Missionary Society who were organised and funded 1807, record books of missionaries from 1769 to independently from the main Society. The records thepresent, much biographical material, and have been arranged by the form of the material missionaries' journals. A special feature is extensive and then sub-divided by the region to which they material on Dr. , Wesley's 'right relate. No detailed lists are available. hand'. The Archive is now housed in the Library of the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society School of Oriental and African Studies, London. This is a fairly small collection of the records of The records consist of three distinct groups, the thePrimitiveMethodistChurch's missionary most extensive being those of the Wesleyan Meth- activities up to its amalgamation with the Wes- odist Missionary Society and smaller collections leyan Methodist Missionary Society in 1933. It of the Women's Work organisation and the Prim& contains material relating chiefly to Southern ti»e Methodist Missionary Society; thesehave Africa and Nigeria but also includes an interesting been listed separately. collection relating to missionary work in Fernan- do Po. The Records have been arranged by the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society form of the material and then sub-divided by the region to which they relate. No detailed lists are The most extensive and valuable series of records available. are the Synod minutes and correspondence to London from the districts all round the world. The minutes and correspondence from each region are arranged andlisted together and the two series complement each other. The Synod minutes were sent in to London from the districts and contain synopsesof the important events of the mission and the area. Up to 1900, the letters from the missionaries are listed in detail and these lists are available at SOAS and on microfiche. (These are noted in the Guide by an asterisk.) After 1900, the system of filing changed and the increased volume of correspondence made detailed listing Cover illustration: impractible. The later correspondence was divided ThomasCoke (1747-1814) Founder of Methodist missions. Superintendent in America, con- into two series, that of the Chairman of the stant advocate of missionary enterprise; died on the way to take districts and that of the missionaries. up missionary service in Ceylon at the age of 67. External finding aids A 45-page very detailed printed guide to the Archives, compiled by Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett. This guide relates the content of the archives with the corresponding microfiches. Ifyou prefer tohave a more detailed impression of the entire archives, ask without engagement for a free copy of this guide on microfiche. 2. Detailed inventories in typescript have been prepared for a large part of the Archives, mainly the correspondence, and are available on microfiche. The inventories arealso available separately (53 fiches; Order no. LH-1833). The finding aids come free with the microfiches.

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James Calvert (1813-1892) Wesleyan pioneer missionary and translator in Fiji 1838-1864; as a veteran served in South Africa in the early days of the mining rush (1872-1880).

Number of fiches24,281 Size 105 x 148 mm microfiche Film type Positive silver halide Reduction ratio 1: 23 Internal Eye-legible headers with the finding aids exactcontent of thefiche (kindof material,country, years) External A printed guide of 45 pages finding aids byMrs.ElizabethBennett anddetailedinventories on in icrofiche Free readers Three Realist Valiant 14 micro- fiche readers (value Dfl1500 each) are given free to pur- chasers of the complete collec- Other Missionary Archives tion available from 1DC Single sections are available at the listed prices. Smaller parts may also be purchased. A quotation Conference of British Missionary Societies, 1912-1954 will be provided on request. Council for World Mission Archives, 1775-1940 International Missionary Council Archives, 1910-1961 Jerusalem and East Mission Archive, London, 1889-1976 Joint IMC/CBMS Africa & India, 1910-1945 Paris Evangelical Missionary Society Archives, 1822-1935 For information about a flexible purchase plan Presbyterian Church Archives, 1842-1961 please contact 1DC. UnitedSocietyforChristianLiterature,1799-1960 Wesleyan MethodistMissionary Society

Home and General Correspondence LH-2707/1 1833-1890 Antigua Minutes LH-2700/1 1835-1947 Bahamas 1905-1946 Barbados 1798- 1902 General 1838-[1890] Barbados. Marriage regs. 1869- 1933 United Methodist Free Church 1867-1936 British Guiana 1837- 1948 Various 1834- 1930 Haiti Correspondence LH-2701/1 1833-1944 Honduras 1834- 1945 Jamaica 1803-1896 Home 1907/08-1946 Leeward Islands Correspondence (arranged by area) 1858-1890 St. Vincent 1880-1902 West Indies Conference 1806-1904 Govern. Dept./Col. Office/ 1803-1857 West Indies General Circulars 1903-1945 West Indies General 1928-1945 Home 1816-1914 Outgoing West Africa

Europe Synod Minutes LH-2708/1 Synod Minutes LH-2702/1 1933-1939 Fernando Po 1925-1946 French West Africa Synod Minutes 1823-1944 1842-1946 Gambia Correspondence LH-2703/1 1878-1945 Nigeria 1822- 1945 Sierra Leone 1806-1884 Channel Islands 1924- 1945 West, Africa (irarious) 1825-1902 Egypt/Greece 1818-1879 Europe (various) Correspondence LH-2709/ 1 1916- 1941 1932-1944/45Eastern Nigeria 1814- 1936 France 1930- 1940 Fernando Po 1821 -1899 Germany 1924- 1945 French West Africa 1804-1902 Gibraltar 1821 -1945 Gambia; odds -1862 Ireland 1802 1835-1944 Gold Coast 1861-1936 Italy 1893-1904 Nigeria 1815-1902 Malta 1811 -1946 Sierra Leone Naples 1886- 1904 + 1930 West Africa (miscellaneous) Portugal 1905-1945 Western Nigeria [1870-1936]Spain 1825-1864 Sweden 1823-1905 Switzerland South Africa North America Synod Minutes LII-2710/1 1933-1945 Kenia Synod Minutes LH-2704/1 1892-1944 Rhodesia 1823-1887 South Africa -1868 Synod Minutes 1822 1912-1944 Transvaal LH-2705/1 Correspondence Correspondence LH-2711/1 1791-1883 Correspondence 1933/35-1945 Copper Belt/Kenia 1891-1944 Rhodesia 1807-1898 South Africa 1883-1940/42South Africa Conference West Indies 1932-1945 South Rhodesia 1881-1944/45Transvaal Synod Minutes LH-2706/1 1822- 1946 Synod Minutes India 1907- 1945 Hunan 1905- 1945 Hupeh Synod Minutes KH-2712/1 1933-1946 Ningpo 1933-1945 North China 1824-1911 India 1905-1945 South China 1911-1946 North India 1932-1945 South West China 1912-1945 South India 1933 -1945 Wenchow 1906-1947 Various general and 1876- 1905 Wuchang provincial Minutes Correspondence KH-2713/1 1904-1945 Bengal Australasia 1902 -1945 Bombay 1868-1904 Calcutta Synod Minutes K11-2720/1 1885 -1945 Hyderabad 1902- 1945 Lucknow 1822-1864 Australia, New Zealand, 1868-1904 Lucknow/Benares Tasmania 1817-1945 Madras 1828-1855 Fiji and Tonga 1835 -1945 Mysore 1886 -1945 Trichinopoly/Negapatam Correspondence K H-2721/I 1812-1889 Australia 1835- 1860 Fiji 1878-1881 New Britain Ceylon 1819-1882 New Zealand 1834- 1876 Samoa 1823-1876 Tasmania Synod Minutes KH-2714/1 1822-1887 Tonga 1927-1931 Burma/Ceylon 1821-1945 Ceylon 1943-1946 India/Ceylon Special Series Correspondence K H-2715/1 1814-1867 Ceylon Notes and Transcripts KH-2722/1 1885-1915 Colombo/Galle & Kandy 1868-1945 North Ceylon Biographical KH-2723/1 - 18681935 South Ceylon 1829-1869 Candidates Papers Various Papers Central Africa Ceylon/Burma Burma China Europe Synod Minutes KH-2716/1 India New Zealand 1889-1944 Burma 1839-1859 Ships Logs/Papers Correspondence KH-2717/1 "Triton": "" I & II South Africa 1886-1945 Burma South Seas 1938-1945 China/Burma West Africa West Indies Finance KH-2724/1

China 1932-1933 Finance district Schedules 1825-1880 Minutes of Finance Sub- Synod Minutes KH-2718/1 Committee 1853-1946 China Correspondence KH-2719/1 1851 -1905 Canton 1936- 1945 China General 1924- 1934 China Miscellaneous Women's Work Collection

Minutes KH-2725/1 Correspondence China KH-2729/1 18581939 Minutes 1921 -1945 Hunan, Hupeh, Ningpo, Wenchow Reports KH-2726/1 1920- 1947 North, South and South West 1923-1947 Africa, China, India China Correspondence KH-2727/1 Correspondence KH-2730/1

1928-1945 Africa 1906-1920 Miscellaneous Correspondence 1921 -1945 Bengal 1925-1930 Missionaries on Furlough (China) 1920-1945 Burma 1907-1945 Ceylon Overseas SchedulesKH-2731/1

1918-1943 Europe 1923-1946 Burma, Ceylon, China 1911 -1945 Hyderabad 1922- 1945 Lucknow/Benares 1913 -1945 Madras 1913-1945 Medak 1913-1945 Mysore 1920-1941 North Ceylon 1920-1939 North/South Ceylon 1914-1933 Rhodesia/Transvaal 1920-1947 South Ceylon 1918-1948 Trichinopoly 1928-1933 West Africa 1928-1945 West Indies

Primitive Methodist Missionary Society

Minutes KH-2732/ I Correspondence K H-2734/1

1863-1933 Minutes 1895 -1913 Australia/New Zealand 1914-1932 Eastern Nigeria, Synod Minutes Reports KH-2733/1 1894- 1933 Fernando Po 1914- 1933 Foreign Reports 1903-1908 Home/Corr. (alphabetically 1894-1917 Quarterly Reports people/subjects A-Y) Home/General miscellaneous Ilome/Outgoing letters 1896 -1933 Nigeria 1892-1934 South and Central Africa

FINDLAY, G.G. and W.W. HOLDS WORTH. The History of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. London, 1921-1924. 5 vols. KH-2736/1 Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society Serial publications on microfiche

Annual report and accounts of the Methodist Cont. as: Woman's work. London, 1885-1899. Missionary Society. General Fund and Women's No. 103-161. Work for 1966-1970. London, 1967-1971. KH-2754/1 KH-2750/1 Methodist New Connexion Missions. Gleanings Annual report of the London Missionary Society. in Harvest Fields, 188 9-1 9 0 7. Report no. 1-145. London, 1796-1939/1940. Lacking: 1889, p. 1-36; 1890,p. 49-128; 1891, p. 161- Lacking: Report 5-20. 224, p. 237-260; 1892/93,p. 285-344; 1893/94, p. 369- KH-2142/1 396; 1899, p. 97-112; 1903,p. 161-176; 1904, p. 81-96; 1905, p. 113-128; 1906,p. 161-176. Annual reports of the Primitive Methodist Mis- KH-2 74 2/1 sionary Society Report 1-84, 1843-1927. London, 1844-1927. Minutes of the annual conferences of the United Lacking: Report 50-66. Methodist Church. London, 1932. KH-2738/1 KH-2744/1 Minutes of the conferences of the Primitive Annual reports of the Wesleyan Methodist Mis- Methodist Connexion. 65th-77th annualcon- sionary Society. London, 1789-1966. Financial ference. London, 18 84-1 8 96. supplement 1939-1959. Lacking: 1790; 1793-1803; 1807; 1810; 1932. Cont. as: Minutes of the annual conferences of the Primitive Methodist Church, 87th- KH-2749/1 96th annual conference. London, 1 906-1915. The Arminian Magazine consisting of extracts and Cont. as: Year book including the Minutes of the and original treatises on Universal Redemption. annual conferences of the Primitive Methodist. London, 1778-1797. V.1-20. 97th-1 13 th annual conference. London, 1916- 1932. Cont. as: The Methodist Magazine. London, 1 79 8- Lacking: 1819?-1883, 1st-64th; 1885-1895, 66th-76th; 18 21. V.21-44. 1909-1913, 90th-94th; 1918-1920, 99th- 101st; 1929, Cont. as: The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine. 110th. London, 1822-1894. V.45-107. K11-2737/1 Lacking: 1820, V.43 (August, p. 561-640); 1821, V.44 (June/July, p. 401-560); 1856, V.79 (pt. 2); 1878-1891, Minutes of the Wesleyan Methodist conferences V.101-114. from the first held in London in the year 1 744- KH-2753/I 1976. London, 1862-1976. KH-2747/ 1 At Home and Abroad. A magazine of Home and Foreign Missions for young helpers in the work. Handbook and Index to the Minutes of the London, 1879-1974 (Spring - summer). Conference: showing the growth and develop- ment of the Wesleyan Methodist Constitution Cont. as: Window. London, 1974 (Autumn) - from the first conference, 1744 to 1890. 1976. London, 1890. Lacking: 1879, V.1; 1941; 1946. KH-2748/1 KH-2755/1 Missionary chronicle. London, 1822-183 5. The Christian Messenger. London. Cont. as: The missionary magazine and chronicle; Available: 1884-1889. V.19-24. related chiefly to the missions of the London KH-2740/1 Missionary Society. London, 1836/1837-1859, V.1-23. N.S. 1 86 0-1 86 6, V.24-30. Ladies' Committee for ameliorating the condition Cont. as: The chronicle of the London Missionary of women in heathen countries, female education...Society. London, 1 86 7-18 9 1; N.S., 1892-1940. London, 1859-1873. No. 1-56. V.1-48. Cont. as: Ladies' Auxiliary for female education. Lacking: 1822(Febr.); 1827-1835. London, 1 8 73/1 874-1 8 84. No. 57-102. KH-2143/1 The Missionary Echo of the United Methodist Report of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Wesleyan Free Churches. London. 1894-1905. V.1-12, Methodist Missionary Society. London, 188]- N.S., 1906-1932. V.1-39. 1892. KR-2743/1 Cont. as: Report of the Women's Auxiliary of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. Missionary Notices, relating principally to the London, 1893-1915. Foreign Missions, established byWesley and Coke.. Lacking: 1898; 1900, p. 255-End. the Methodist Conference. London, 1816-1838. KH-275/1 V.1-9. Cont. as: Wesleyan Missionary Notices. United Methodist Ministers and their Circuits being N.S. London, 1839-1853, V.1-11. an arrangement in alphabetical order of the Stations London, 1854-1868, V.1-15. of Ministers of the: London, 1868/1869-1877, V.1-9. Methodist New Connexion; London, 1878-1885. V.1-8. Bible Christians; London, 1886-1893. V.1-8. Armenian Methodist, London, 1894-1899. V.1-6. Protestant Methodists; London, 1900-1904. V.I-5. Wesleyan Methodist Association; KH-2751/1 Wesleyan Reformers; United Methodist Free Churches and the United Monthly notices of the Primitive Methodist Methodist Church 1797-1932. Missionary Society. London, 1848-1869. KH-2746/1 Lacking: 1848-1850. Women's Missionary Service. London, 1858?- Cont. as: Records of missionary of the 1934. Primitive Methodist Missionary Society. London, 1870-1892. Cont. as: Methodist Missionary Society Women's Lacking: 1871(13). Work. London, 1935-1965. Lacking: 1858?-1922. Cont. as: The Record. Organ of the Primitive Home, Colonial and Foreign Missionary Society. KH-2757/1 London, 1893-1904. Work 8c Workers in the Mission Field. London, Lacking: 1899-1902. 1892-1904. V.1-13. Cont. as: The Herald of the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society. London, 1905-1922. Cont. as: The Foreign Field of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. London, 1904/1905-1931/1932. Cont. as: Advance. Missionary Organ of the V.1-28. Primitive Methodist Church. London, 1923-1932. Cont. as: The Kingdom Overseas. London, 1933- KH-2741/1 1969. V.1-37. The Primitive Methodist Magazine. London. Lacking: 1943, V.11. Available. 1866-1871, V.47-52;1884, V.65; 1887-1888, KH-2752/1 V.68-69. KH-2739/1

Report of the home and foreign missions of the United Methodist Free Churches. London, 1 86 7/1 86 8 -1 93 1/1 93 2. Lacking: 1868/1869 - 1874/1875. KH-2745/1