Handlist of the Papers of the China Inland Mission
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HANDLIST OF THE PAPERS OF THE CHINA INLAND MISSION The Library, School of Oriental and African Studies April 1994 ARRANGEMENT OF THE COLLECTION The papers are arranged in five divisions, under the following sections: Division: Page: INTRODUCTION 3 Division 1: CHINA INLAND MISSION London Council 5 CIM Corporation 8 China Papers 9 Associate Missions 11 Publications 12 Division 2: OVERSEAS MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP PAPERS Papers 23 Publications 23 Division 3: JAMES HUDSON TAYLOR PAPERS Bound Volumes 25 1853 26 18541856 27 18571865 27 18661870 29 18711882 34 18831886 37 18871890 39 18911898 42 18991905 46 General Papers 49 Box List of NonMS Archives 51 Division 4: PERSONAL AND PRIVATE PAPERS Personal Papers 52 Liberty 55 Withers 57 FHT Notes 59 AJB Notes 61 Additional Private Papers 71 Division 5: CHEFOO SCHOOLS AND CHEFOO SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION PAPERS School Papers 74 Chefoo Schools Association Papers 75 Chefoo Schools Association Publications 76 Other Papers 78 CHINA INLAND MISSION The China Inland Mission was officially set up in 1865 under the direction of James Hudson Taylor (18321905) and William Thomas Berger (18151899). Taylor had already spent some time in China, first in the employment of the Chinese Evangelization Society, and, after some difficulties with them, as an independent missionary. Refusing to appeal for funds but relying on unsolicited contributions, the China Inland Mission was set up to concentrate on the interdenominational evangelization on inland China, with emphasis on medical and educational work (Taylor having had medical training) and on women's missions, taking volunteers from all classes. Taylor insisted on the participation of the missionaries in Chinese life, for instance, the wearing of native dress. The initial structure of the mission was simple: Berger was the Home Director, controlling the receipt of funds and the training of candidates, while Taylor returned to China and, as General Director, was in charge of the mission's work in the field. When Berger retired in 1872, a London Council was set up to deal with home affairs, developing a Ladies' Council and Candidates' Committee reporting to it. In 1886 a China Council was formed in Shanghai to enable the Director to keep in contact with all the mission stations. As branches were started in America and Australasia, councils were set up there, too, but the China Inland Mission remained unusual in that its General Director was based in the mission field itself. Volunteers were sometimes scarce, but the departure of the 'Cambridge Seven' in 1885 publicized the mission so that 70 missionaries left for China that year, and 100 soon after. Several smaller missionary societies from Scandinavia and Germany were connected with the China Inland Mission as Associate Missions. By 1905, all 12 inland provinces had been entered, along with Burma, and even Eastern Tibet. The China Inland Mission began its work just as China was becoming more open to foreigners, but the missionaries still had to overcome hostility provoked by the Opium Wars and the China Inland Mission, with its farflung outposts, was particularly badly hit by the massacres of foreigners during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. It was quite easy to travel through China, but difficult for foreigners to settle there. Conditions varied in the early twentieth century but at last all foreigners had to withdraw in 1951, and the China Inland Mission, becoming the Overseas Missionary Fellowship, went to Singapore where it continues its work chiefly amongst Chinese immigrants. The main part of the Mission's surviving archive is with the Directorate in Singapore. The material deposited in SOAS Library, arranged in six divisions, comprises: 1) CIM, the material of the London Council, the China Inland Mission Corporation, set up in 1895 to own property for the mission, the minutes of the China Council and miscellaneous papers accumulated in China, some papers of the Associated Missions, and examples of the mission's publications. The minute books contain additional material, of which the most significant is noted in the list; 2) CIM/OMF, papers and publications of the Overseas Missionary Fellowship which was formed in 1951, when the CIM could no longer work in China, and began to concentrate on South East Asia instead; 3) CIM/JHT, the personal archive of Taylor, including letters, administrative and policy material, personnel and property records and accounts, and records of his time in the Chinese Evangelization Society; 4) CIM/PP, a collection of personal and private papers of missionaries; 5) CIM/CSP, a collection of papers of the Chefoo school for missionaries' children in China, and papers and publications of the Chefoo Schools Association, founded for old pupils and staff; 6) CIM/PHOTO, a large collection of photographic material. The present guide covers the first five divisions. There is a separate guide to CIM/PHOTO. This list originally compiled by Dr Nicola Castles in August 1993, incorporates additional material received in 1994. Hannah Lowery April 1994 Further reading: Broomhall, Marshall, Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, London 1927 Guinness, Geraldine, The Story of the China Inland Mission, London 1893 Lyall, L. A Passion for the Impossible, London 1965 Seton, R. & Naish, E., A Preliminary Guide to the Archives of British Missionary Societies, London 1992 ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS VOLUME CES – Chinese Evangelization Society CIM – China Inland Mission DEH – Dixon Edward Hoste EB – Miss Emily Blatchley FHT – Frederick Howard Taylor JEF – Jennie Faulding JET – Jennie Taylor (nee Faulding) JHT – James Hudson Taylor JWS – James Stevenson MGT – Geraldine Taylor (nee Guinness) MJD – Maria Dyer MJT – Maria Taylor (nee Dyer) OMF – Overseas Missionary Fellowship WBS – Walter Sloan WTB – William Berger CONTENTS 1. London Council …………………page 5 2. CIM Corporation ………………..page 8 3. China Papers ……………………page 9 4. Associate Missions ……………..page 11 5. Publications ……………………..page 12 CHINA INLAND MISSION SECTIONS: 1 LONDON COUNCIL 148 2 CIM CORPORATION 4968 3 CHINA PAPERS 6992 4 ASSOCIATE MISSIONS 9396 5 PUBLICATIONS 97433 SECTION 1: LONDON COUNCIL Documents concerning foundation of London Council 1. Letter to Richard Hill from JHT, inviting him to a discussion of 1/8/1872 proposed London Council 2. Letter to MGT from Richard Hill re death of JHT and his own 15/10/1905 notes and memories of Council foundation Minutes (manuscript up to 1920, indexed) 3. Minute book including a list of missionaries and an outfit list 4/10/187214/12/1876 4. Minute book including material re property in Bhamo 5/1/187721/11/1882 5. Minute book including material on resignations and marriages 2/1/188320/12/1887 6. Minute book including material on Australasian Council 3/1/188824/11/1891 7. Minute book including material on China Council and dispute with 1/12/189118/12/1894 Church Missionary Society 8. Minute book 8/1/189517/5/1898 9. Minute book 21/5/189822/10/1901 10. Minute book 5/11/190126/9/1905 11. Minute book including material on proposed United Missionary 3/10/190523/2/1909 Movement in China 12. Minute book 2/3/19094/6/1912 13. Minute book including material on payments to missionaries 18/6/191211/10/1915 resigning during or after furlough 14. Minute book 8/11/191524/3/1920 15. Minute book 28/4/192012/4/1928 16. Minute book including material on the CIM withdrawing from the 18/4/192820/12/1933 Conference of Missionary Societies an guidelines on accepting candidates 17. Minute book 17/1/193414/11/1941 18. Minute book 13/2/19426/12/1951 Minutes of the Finance Committee 19. Minute book of the Finance Committee 31/1/19293/10/1940 20. Minute book of the Finance Committee 6/1/19416/12/1951 Minutes of the Building Committee 21. Minute book of the Building Committee containing also rough 18941906 minutes of Directors' Meetings of CIM Corporation Accounts 22. Bundle of CIM Balance Sheets (16) 18781880 19081920 23. Bundle of Home Accounts (9) 18901893 1895 18981901 24. Bundle of Cash Accounts (17) 1877 18801889 19041907 25. Bundle of Home and China Accounts (5) 1894 18961897 19021903 26. Box file of CIM audited accounts, CIM Corporation balance sheets 19211939 and cash statements (36) 19221939 27. CIM cash account and sundry schedules 31/12/1940 28. CIM cash account and sundry schedules 31/12/1941 29. CIM cash account and sundry schedules 31/12/1942 30. CIM cash account and sundry schedules 31/12/1943 31. CIM cash account and sundry schedules 31/12/1944 32. CIM cash account and sundry schedules 31/12/1945 33. CIM general summary of receipts and payments account 31/12/1946 34. CIM general summary of receipts and payments account 31/12/1947 35. CIM general summary of receipts and payments account 31/12/1948 36. CIM general summary of receipts and payments account 31/12/1949 37. CIM general summary of receipts and payments account 31/12/1950 38. CIM general summary of receipts and payments account 31/12/1951 Correspondence 39. Letter to JHT from M.A. Parsons re donation to the mission work n.d. 40. Letter from JHT to MJT re travels in Scotland and preparation for 4/9/186510/9/1865 China (7) 41. Letters from JHT to MJT re preparation for China and mission 26/9/186530/9/1865 preaching in England (3) 42. Letter to JET from Henrietta Soltau re mission preaching in 3/6/1872 Barnstable 43. Letter to JET from Henrietta Soltau re mission preaching in 12/6/1872 Barnstable 44.