Archival Sources in Britain for the Study of Mission History: An Outline Guide and Select Bibliography

Rosemary Seton

n 1968 the Group on Records, Libraries and Information, with an introduction, in A Preliminary Guide to the Archives of I set up by the Conference of British Missionary Societies, British Missionary Societies, which was distributed to the one recommended that a survey of the archives of British missionary hundred or so participants at the workshop. societies be carried out. The work was undertaken by Rosemary The summarized list below has been extracted from the Pre­ Keen of the Church Missionary Society, whose Survey of the liminaryGuidewith subsequent additions and emendations. The Archives ofSelected Missionary Societies listed in detail the archives archives of forty-eight societies and associated organizations are of eighteen major societies. At the time of her survey all the listed, at twenty-eight different locations in England, Scotland, archives listed were in the keeping of the societies themselves. Wales, and Northern Ireland. Many of these are still in London, Increasingly, however, societies were finding the task of housing a significant number having been deposited in the Library of the records and servicing researchers too burdensome, and a trend School of Oriental and African Studies. But other have moved to deposit archives in suitable libraries and repositories began. further afield: the immense archive of the Church Missionary This process continued in the 1980s as a number of societies Societyhas moved to BirminghamUniversityLibrary;thearchive found it too costly to maintain expensive premises in central of theBaptistMissionarySocietyis at the AngusLibrary, Regent's London. Several moved out of London or off-loaded noncurrent Park College, Oxford; the archive of the United Society for the and bulky records. This prolonged period of dispersal has been Propagation of the Gospel is also at Oxford, at Rhodes House a confusing and bewildering time for researchers and archivists College; while the Bible Society's archive has been moved to alike. Particularly hard hit have been overseas visitors who have Cambridge University Library. Most of the Scottish Missionary tramped familiar streets to fondly remembered doors only to be Societies' archives are to be found in the National Library of met with "gone away" notices or by new owners in occupation. Scotland, while the Centre for the Study of Non-Western Chris­ During the last twenty years or so, many societies have also tianity at New College, Edinburgh, contains a range of original changed their names to ones more in keeping with the times or and printed missionary materials. have merged with other societies. Both home-based and over­ seas scholars often have been baffled and perplexed and, on Nature of the Sources appealingto librarians and archivists, have found themunableto provide accurate and up-to-date information. As in the United States,' missionary papers, as distinct from archives, are scattered throughout many libraries and record 1992 Survey of Archives offices. Papersof J.H. Oldham,for example, organizingsecretary of the Edinburgh World Missionary Conference of 1910 and editor of the International ReviewofMissions for many years, are In the spring of 1992, motivated by a desire to inform and to be found in the Library of New College, Edinburgh; at Rhodes enlighten would-be researchers (and ourselves!) of the present House Library, Oxford; and in the Library of the School of whereabouts and contents of missionary archives in the United Oriental and African Studies, London. Most archives-typically Kingdom, David Arnold (professor of South Asian history in the the records of individual organizations-are located at one ad­ University of London) and I began a project to survey the dress, although where the historical archives have been depos­ archives of as many British missionary societies as we could ited in a library or record office, recent records are usually kept locate. This was planned to coincide with a workshop on mis­ by the society. This is the case with the Church Missionary sionary archives we were organizing at the School of Oriental Society, which does not deposit records until they are forty years and African Studies in July 1992. We obtained a grant from the old, and even more so with the records of the Bible Society, which Nuffield Foundation to finance the work and appointed a field has a seventy-year closure rule. In the case of most societies, officer (Ms. Emily Naish) to carry out the survey. Between April and June survey forms were sent to all organizations or reposi­ tories thought to contain materials, and follow-up visits were made to fourteen different locations. In other cases archivists or Many British mission administrators kindly completed the forms for us or sent copies archives have been of their finding aids. We were not able to trace the present locations of all societies (particularly smaller or more specialized dispersed from London, ones), and a tiny minority did not want to be included in the creating a bewildering time survey. By the time of the workshop, we had obtained a listing of the archives of forty-six missionary societies, whichwe included, for researchers.

Rosemary Seton has been a professional archivist for nearly twenty years, records are available for consultation after thirty years from the havingpreviouslyobtained amaster'sdegree in history.Shehasbeen Archivist date of creation. Some records, particularly early ones, can turn at the School of Orientaland African Studies (SOAS), University of London, since 1979. Her first publication was a guide to sources on the history of the up in unexpected places. A section of the early home correspon­ Indian Mutiny, published in 1986. Sheis now chieflyconcerned with workon dence of the London Missionary Society, for example, is to be thearchives ofmissionarysocieties at SOAS, byfarthelargest partoftheSOAS found in Dr. Williams's Library, in London.' while some seven­ archival collections. Sheisalsoengaged in research ontheworkofBritishwomen teenth-century materials from the Society for the Propagation of missionaries. the Gospel are in Lambeth Palace Library.

66 INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF MISSIONARY RESEARCH In most cases the missionary archives that survive are the and handlists of collections in many British libraries and record accumulated records of the sending organizations. These are, of offices. Limited inquiries can be answered by mail. The NRA is course, a most valuable source containing, as they do, letters and particularly concerned with British history and may not include reports written home to headquartersby missionaries in the field detailed references to overseas work, but use of its indexes and as well as documents recording the formulation and develop­ lists of sources on religious organizations is particularly recom­ ment of mission policy. However there are often considerable mended. Lastly, I have appended a select list of the published gaps. Many records have been destroyed either deliberately or histories of missionary societies. These are based in varying through negligence. Others have been lost through enemyaction degree on original documentation and, when used judiciously, in wartime, others by the eternal enemies time, heat, damp, can be a useful start to scholarly research. infestation, and so forth. There are some gaps due to the inherent In the last few years an increasing number of scholars from nature of archives, which tend to consist of letters received rather than letters sent. Copies of instructions to missionaries, for example, can be hard to find. Detailed records created in the Recently scholars from field-lists of converts and church members, the records of missionary institutions, the minutes of papers of local mission many disciplinary councils, particulars of itineration work, and so on-were not backgrounds have turned usually sent to the mission house. Such records, if they still exist, to missionary archives as a should still be in the mission field, though their location may be unknown and their condition questionable. Their apparent loss source of wide scholarly and other gaps in the archives can sometimes be rectified by application. recourse to papers prepared and collected by individual mis­ sionaries. The importance of these collections of letters, journals, photographs, and other papers cannot be overemphasized, par­ a variety of disciplinary backgrounds have turned to missionary ticularly when read alongside the official records. archives as a source of wide scholarly application. We hope to bring out in due course a revised and expanded version of the Further Help PreliminaryGuide,on which the following list is based, to service this burgeoning need. To this end I am maintaining a database at There is little in the way of a published literature on British SOAS and am very willing to share information. In return, I ask missionary society archives. I have included in the bibliography those who come across primary source materials not included in below such guides, catalogs, and useful articles as have come my the list kindly to send me details. way. I have also included general and regional guides that I think readers might find useful, though a number of these were com­ piled twenty or more years ago. The central agency for collecting Notes------­ information about manuscript sources in Britain, outside the 1. Robert Shuster, "Documentary Sources in the Untied States for Public Record Office, is the National Register of Archives, which Foreign Missions Research: A Select Bibliography and Checklist, is maintained by the Royal Commission on Historical Manu­ International Bulletin of Missionary Research 9, no. 1 (1985): 19-29. scripts at Quality House, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London 2. Dr. Williams's Library does not hold missionary archives as such. WC2A IHP. The search room is open to the public on weekdays However, it is a useful recourse for the study of English non­ and has personal and subject indexes as well as catalogs, guides, conformity. The address is 14 Gordon Square, London WC1H GAG. Archival Sources in Britain ------­

Aberystwyth Birmingham Cambridge National Library of Wales University of Birmingham Library Cambridge University Library Aberystwyth P.o. Box 363 West Road Dyfed Birmingham B15 2TT Cambridge CB3 9DR Wales SY23 3BU Tel. 021 4145838 Tel. 0223 333150/333143 Tel. 0970 623816 Church of England Zenana Missionary Society. Britishand Foreign Bible Society. Also known as The ForeignMissionof the PresbyterianChurchof Wales. Founded1880.AmalgamatedwithChurchMissionary Bible Society. Founded 1804. The aim of the society is Founded 1840. Worked in France, India, South Africa, Society, in 1957. Records 1881-1949. Access: bona fide to publish editions of the Bible in any language for and Tahiti. Minutes, correspondence, personal files. researchers with letter of introduction. Forty-year which there is a readership, outside the United States. Serials dated ca. 1840-1969. Access: prior permission closure period for official archives. Principal series of archives: minutes of committeeand of the curator of the Historical Society of the subcommittees, 1804-1920 (some gaps); secretaries' Church Missionary Society.Founded 1799.Anglican. Presbyterian Church of Wales. correspondence; departmental records (especially Worked in Africa, Canada, China, India, Middle East, EditorialDepartment);agents'books,1819-1931 (some New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka. Archives, 1799­ gaps). Special series: secretaries' notebooks (Black 1949. Extensive series of records covering all aspects Belfast books); George Borrow letters, 1833-40; John Paterson of the society's work; personal papers, photographs. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland papers, 1805-80. A considerable quantity of Serial publications include the Church Missionary 66 Balmoral Avenue audiovisual materials. Access: Archives opened to Intelligencer and the ChurchMissionary Gleaner. Belfast BT9 6NY bona fide researchers only. Initial approach must be Tel. 0232 326150 Loochow Naval Mission. Founded in 1861, merged made to Senior Records Administrator, Bible House, with the CMS in 1861. Records 1843-57. Stonehill Green, Westlea, Swindon, Wiltshire SN5 QuaIboFellowship.Founded 1887.Previouslyknown 7DG. A seventy-five-year closure policy operates. as Qua Ibo Mission. Interdenominational. The Society for Promoting Female Education in Correspondence, diaries, reports, and photographs China, India, and the East. Founded 1834. Inter­ relating to the mission's work in Nigeria, 1889-1955. denominational. Society closed in 1899 and work Access: written application to the Mission's Council, divided among other missionary societies. Records, Room 317, 7 Donegal Square West, Belfast BTl 6JE. 1834-99.

April 1994 67 Scottish Missionary Society. Founded in 1796 as the Manuscriptsin Lambeth Library. Access: bonafide readers Doncaster Edinburgh Missionary Society. Worked in the West with a letter of introduction. Indies,Jamaica,andthe Caucasus,butworkgradually Bawtry Hall The library also holds SPG papers, dated 1701. to 1803, Bawtry taken overby other missionboards. Correspondence, including archiepiscopal correspondence relating to Doncaster 1796-1851. overseas. See W. W. Manross, The SPG Papers in the South Yorks United Free Church of Scotland Foreign Missions. LambethPalace Library,Calendar and Indexes(974). DNI06JH Founded in 1900 as a result of the union between the Tel. 0302 710750 Mill Hill Fathers United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church. In (St. Joseph's Society for Foreign Missions) Action Partners. Protestant, interdenominational. 1929 the United Free Church merged with the Church St. Joseph's College Founded 1904 as the Sudan United Mission. Minutes, of Scotland. Worked in India and Malawi. Minutes Lawrence Street correspondence, accounts, audiovisual materials, and various papers, 1900-1929. Includes minutes of Mill Hill annual reports. Access: appointment essential. Thirty­ the Women'sForeignMissionCommittee,1900-1929; London NW7 4JX year closure policy. the Colonial Committee, 1843-1929; the Continental Tel. 081 9598254 Committee, 1868-1929; and the Jewish Committee, 1838-1929. Founded in 1866. Until 1896 known as St. Joseph's Edinburgh Society of the Sacred Heart for the Foreign Mission. United Presbyterian Church (Scotland). Founded in Roman Catholic. General papers, 1866-1980; subject Centre for the Study of Christianity in the 1847. Merged with the Free Church of Scotland in files on missions in Borneo (881), Brazil (974), Non-Western World 1900. Minutes of Mission Board, 1847-1900 0900­ Cameroon (921), Caribbean (912), Chile (966), New College 1929 at New College, Edinburgh); letter books, 1847­ Falkland Islands (952), India (975), Kenya (886), The Mound 1931. Edinburgh EHI 2LU New Zealand (886), Pakistan (947), Papua New Tel. 031 225 8400 Guinea (905), Sudan (938), Uganda (894), United New College Library States (871), Zaire (894). The center holds a considerable quantity of printed Mound Place materials relating to missions and Christianity and Edinburgh Papers of Cardinal Vaughan; large photograph also collectionsof the papersof individualmissionaries EH12LU collection; annual reports, 1869-1935. Access: by and the following archives. Access: registered readers. Tel. 031 2258400 appointment only. Some restrictions on recent records. Papers of J. H. Oldham. In the process of being Oriental and India Office Collections International Nepal Fellowship. Founded in 1940 as organized. Access: written application to librarian. 197, Blackfriars Road the Nepal Evangelistic Band. Correspondence, London SEI 8NG minutes, project files, 1936-89. Some restrictions. Leeds Tel. 071 9289531 Regions Beyond Missionary Union. Founded 1878. Lakher Pioneer Mission. Founded in 1905. Work West Yorkshire Archive Service carried out in Lushai Hills, Assam, India. Until 1900 known as the East London Institute for Sheepscar Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, 1929-77. Home and Foreign Missions and in Africa as the Leeds The Lakher Pioneer, 1905-78. Access: approved readers. Livingstone Inland Mission, later the Congo Balolo West Yorkshire LS7 3AP .Mission. Interdenominational. Worked in Africa, India, Tel. 0532 628339 Quaker Peace and Service Indonesia, Nepal, and Peru. The archives are not yet Library of the Religious Society of Friends Arthington Trust Collection. Robert Arthington cataloged but contain minutes, correspondence, and Friends House (1823-1900) left £1,173,845,whichwasused to finance papers ca. 1880-1991. Euston Road missionary enterprises in many parts of the world. London NWI 2BJ United Mission to Nepal. Founded 1954. The trustconcludedoperationsin 1936.Minutebooks, Tel. 071 3873601 Interdenominational. Project files, photographs, and accounts, legal papers, correspondence, 1900-1937. reports. Access: to all bona fide researchers. Appointment Founded in 1868 as Friends Foreign Mission National Bible Society of Scotland essential. Association, became the Council for International 7, Hampton Terrace service from 1919 to 1927 and the Friends Service Edinburgh EH12 5XU Council from 1927 to 1978. Worked in Europe, China, Tel. 031 3379701 London South Asia, Madagascar, Pemba, and Syria. Minutes, Africa Inland Mission International financial papers, and correspondence. Access: open to Founded 1809. Known until 1859 as the Edinburgh 2 Vorley Road members of the Society of Friends and to bona fide BibleSociety. Nondenominational. Worksworldwide. Archway researchers with letter of recommendation. Fifty-year The GlasgowBibleSociety mergedin 1861.The archive London N19 5HE closure rule. is in process (992) of being reorganized and indexed. Tel. 071 281 1184 Salvation Army Access: by appointment. Founded in 1895as Africa Inland Mission. Protestant, Salvation Army International Heritage Centre interdenominational. Annual reports 1906 to present, National Library of Scotland 117-121, Judd Street slides, photographs. Access: bonafide researchscholars Department of Manuscripts London WCIH 9NN by appointment. George IV Bridge Tel. 071 3871656 Edinburgh EHI 1EW BCMS Crosslinks Founded 1865. The society has worked worldwide. Tel. 031 2264531 251, Lewisham Way The archives werenotestablisheduntil1978and are in London SE4 lXF The NationalLibrary ofScotland containsa numberof the processof reorganization. Files are beingarranged Tel. 081 691 6111 missionary archives of the various Scottish churches. alphabetically within each continent. Access: bonafide The main finding aid to the missionary collections is Foundedin 1922as the BibleChurchmen'sMissionary scholars by appointment. Some restrictions. Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired Since 1925, vol. 6, Society. Worked in Africa and Asia. Minutes and ScottishForeign Mission Records (984). Access: open to correspondencefrom 1922.Publications. Photographs, School of Oriental and African Studies serious researchers. Some restrictions on materials films, and videos. Access:approved readers. Thornhaugh Street less than twenty five years old. Russell Square Interserve London WCl OXG Church of Scotland Board of World Mission and 325, Kennington Road Tel. 071 637 2388 Unity. Founded1824.Previouslyknownas the Church London SEll 4QH of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee. Minutes, Tel. 071 735 8227 The library contains the archives of a number of major 1851-1963, correspondence with missions in Central missionarysocieties as well as a considerablequantity African Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Founded in 1852. Previously known as the Indian of the papers of individual missionaries. Access:An South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, India, China, West Female Normal School and Instruction Society, the archives ticket is available for bona fide readers with Indies. Papers of the Women's Association of Foreign Zenana Bible and Medical Mission, the Bible and letter of recommendation. A thirty-year rule applies Missions, 1885-1964. Large quantity of photographs Medical Missionary Fellowship, and the BMMF to most archives. Interserve. Protestant, interdenominational. Annual in all areas from 1890to presentday. Little nineteenth­ Commonwealth Missionary Society. Formerly the century correspondence survives. reports of the above, the Indian Female Evangelist, 1873-; photographs, films, and slides. Access: bona Colonial Missionary Society, which worked in Free Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Board. fide researchers by appointment. Australia, NorthAmerica, NewZealand,SouthAfrica, Foundedin 1843.United with the United Presbyterian and the West Indies. Church of Scotland in 1900 to form the United Free Lambeth Palace Library Conference for World Mission." Formerly the Church of Scotland. In 1929 the United Free Church of London SEI 7JU Conference of Missionary Societies in Great Britain Scotland mergedwith the ChurchofScotland. Minutes, Tel. 071 928 6222 and Ireland. Founded in 1912 following the World 1843-1928, Correspondence with missions in India Anglicanand ForeignChurch Society.Founded1853. MissionaryConferenceat Edinburghin 1910.Minutes andMalawi(Livingstonia). Women'sForeignMissions and papers of the Standing Committee and of the Committee Papers, 1876-1930. Minutes of the Female Known as the Anglo-Continental Society until 1904. Worked in Europe and Egypt. Correspondence and Society for Promoting Christian Education Among *Available on microfiche from IDC, P.O. Box 11205, papers, 1844-1932. See E. G. W. Bill, Females of India, 1843-1900. A Catalogue of 2301 EE Leiden, The Netherlands.

68 INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF MISSIONARY RESEARCH Home Council and its committees, area files, files on papers, reports. Very little original correspondence literature and medicalwork, and files on contacts with survives, and there are many gaps in publications Oxford other missionary bodies. held. Angus Library Regent's Park College Conference of British Missionary Societies/ Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Pusey Street International Missionary Council Joint Archive on Holy Trinity Church Oxford OXI 2LB Africa and India." Relates to cooperative endeavor Marylebone Road Tel. 0235512077 concerning Africa and India from 1910 to 1945. Only London NWI 4DU the files on Africa have been deposited in SOAS Tel. 071 3875282 Baptist Missionary Society. Founded 1792. Minutes, library. There is a microfiche copy of the files on India, correspondence, reports, photographs, Carey Founded1698.Anglican. Workedin Australasia,India, the originals of which have been deposited at the memorabilia, serial publications. Also records of the and the United States. Minutes, correspondence, and offices of the World Council of Churches in Geneva. Baptist Zenana Mission, the Girls' Auxiliary, the reports. Includes Pitcairn Island Papers (HMS Bounty Correspondence,memoranda, pamphlets,andreports. Medical Mission Auxiliary, and the Women's mutineers). Access: by written application and Includes J. H. Oldham materials. Missionary Association. Access: by appointment to appointment. recommended readers. A thirty-year rule applies. Councilfor World Mission.*Founded1795.Formerly Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries known as the London Missionary Society and from 41, Chatsworth Gardens Middle East Centre 1966 to 180 as the Congregational Council for World Acton St Antony's College Mission. The archive dates from 1795 to 1960 and London W3 9LP Oxford OX2 6JF concerns pioneering Protestant missionary work in Tel. 081 992 6444 Tel. 086559651 the South Seas, China, and Madagascar. The society was also active in South and Southeast Asia and Founded1925.Also knownas MedicalMissionSisters. Jerusalem and East Mission. Founded 1841. In Southern and Central Africa and to a lesser extent in Works worldwide. The archives include the papers of abeyance, 1881-87. Anglican. Minutes, 1895-1966 North America and the West Indies. Minutes, the founder, Mother Anna Dengel, and of Dr. Agnes (gaps); correspondence: Jerusalem Bishopric, 1915­ correspondence, reports, and biographical collections McLaren,The papersare in the process of being sorted 76;Assyrian Mission, 1929-73; Cyprus,1919-76; Egypt including papers of James Chalmers, James Legge, and are not at present open to the public. The archivist and the Sudan, 1912-68; the Gulf, 1937-76; Iran, 1957­ David Livingstone, Robert Moffat, Robert Morrison, is pleased to help with inquiries. 76;Iraq, 1930-76; Jordan, 1926-75; NorthAfrica, 1921­ John Williams; ca. 11,000 photographs. Also CWM 75; Syria and Lebanon, 1890-1975. Available on Society of Jesus (British Province) Library, ca. 13,000 books and pamphlets, including microfiche from IDC, Leiden, Holland. Access: by 114, Mount Street LMS serials. appointment and permission from the Church London WI Y 6AH Association. A fee is charged for nonmembers. International Committee for Christian Literature for Tel. 071 4937811 Africa. Founded in 1929 as the Christian Literature Rhodes House Library The British Provinceof the Society of]esuswas founded Bureau for Africa. In 1953 became part of the South Parks Road in 1623. The archives contains material relating to the International Missionary Council and in 1957/58 its Oxford OX9 3BG following countries: Barbados(1857to present),Belize operations were transferred to Africa. Minutes, Tel. 0865270909 (1854-94), Bengal (1830s and 1840s), Guyana (1857 to accounts, correspondence, and reports. Sets of the present), Jamaica (1840-94), South Africa (1894­ Access: application in advance required; Bodleian periodicals Books for Africa and Listen, and almost present), United States (Maryland and Pennsylvania Library rules. complete sets of titles in the Little Books for Africa and until 1776). Papers of Father Cary-Elwes; substantial the Africa Home Library series. Cambridge Mission to Delhi. Founded 1877, which photographic collection. Access: by appointment. A merged with United Societyfor the Propagationof the Melanesian Mission. Founded in 1840 to evangelize forty-year rule applies. Gospel in 1968. Minutes, correspondence, annual the Melanesian Islands of the South Pacific (i.e., the Trust Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel reports, and the printed reports, 1882-1915, of the Solomon, Santa Cruz, and Northern New Hebrides (Moravian) Delhi Female Medical Mission. Islands). Minutes, correspondence,photographsdated Moravian Church Archive and Library ca. 1872 to 1963 and Southern CrossLogs,1895-1970. United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Moravian Church House Founded 1701. Known as the Society for the. MethodistMissionarySociety.*Overseasworkbegan 5-7, Muswell Hill Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts up to 1865. in 1786. The archives, dated 1798 to 1950, document London NI0 3TJ Anglican. Minutes, 1702-1965; general the work of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Tel. 071 883 3409 correspondence, 1702-1985; correspondence with Society, the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society, Founded1741.Knownuntil1923as Brethren'sSociety missions in South, Central, and West Africa; North and the United Methodist Society in Europe, North for the Furtherance of the Gospel among the Heathen. America; Australia and the Pacific; Borneo; Burma; America, the West Indies, West and Southern Africa, Worked in Jamaica, Labrador, Tanzania, Western Europe; Hong Kong; India; West Indies. Medical India, Burma, Sri Lanka, and Australia. The three Himalayas. Archives date from 1768 and include missions, 1908-68; Codrington College and estate, societies united in 1933 to form the Methodist minutes, accounts, some correspondence, chiefly that Barbados; Committee on Women's Work, 1866-1942. Missionary Society. Home minutes, synod minutes, ofC.I. Latrobe (1758-1836),secretary,SFG.The archive Large photographic collection. Pamphlet collection. correspondence, reports, and photographs dated ca. will shortly transfer to the John Rylands University For other USPG papers, see entry under Lambeth 1804-1950; biographical collections include papers of Library, Manchester. Access: bona fide researchers by Palace Library, London. Rhodes House Library also Thomas Birch Freeman, David Hill, Samuel Pollard, appointment only. holds papers of J. H. Oldham, chiefly relating to East and Edwin Smith. Also the library of approximately Africa. 6,500 books and pamphlets. Newbury Universities Mission to CentralAfrica. Founded1859, Overseas Missionary Fellowship. Founded in 1865 which merged with USPG in 1965. Minutes, as the China Inland Mission. The archives of the Africa Evangelical Fellowship (SAGM) correspondence, and papers, 1858-1964. British Office of the China Inland Mission, dating International Office from 1872 to 1951, were deposited in the school's 35, Kingfisher Court library in December 1992. Also deposited were the Hambridge Road Tunbridge Wells papersofJ.HudsonTaylor, the founder of the mission. Newbury His papers contain some records of the Chinese Berks RG14 5SJ South American Missionary Society Evangelization Society. Allen Gardiner House Founded 1889 as Cape General Mission. From 1894 to Pembury Road Presbyterian Church of England, Foreign Missions 1965the societywasknownas the SouthAfrica General Tunbridge Wells Committee and Women's Missionary Association.* Mission. Correspondence (twentieth century) of the KentTN23QU The society wasfounded in 1847.EnglishPresbyterian sendingcouncils: America,Australia, Britain,Canada, Tel. 0892538647 missionaries worked chiefly in mainland China and and South Africa; correspondence and papers, ca. Taiwan but also in Malaysia and in what is now 1896--1990,relating to the mission fields in Southern Founded 1844. Previously known as the Patagonian Bangladesh. The surviving records comprise mainly and Central Africa; films, photographs, and tapes. Missionary Society. Worked in Argentina, Bolivia, twentieth-centurymaterials: minutes,correspondence, Access:by request with three days' notice. Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Spain, and and reports. Uruguay. The archive contains papers of founder, CaptainAllen Gardiner;annualreports; SouthAmerican United Society for Christian Literature* MissionaryMagazine,1867-1969; photographs. Access: (incorporating the Religious Tract Society). The by application to office manager. society's archives contain the surviving records of the Religious Tract Society, founded in 1799, and the Christian Literature Society for India and Africa, founded in 1858as the ChristianVernacularEducation Society for India. Minutes, letterbooks, miscellaneous

"Available on microfiche from IDC, P.O. Box 11205, 2301 EE Leiden, The Netherlands.

April 1994 69 Select Bibliography Guides to Archives Cook, Christopher. A Century of Charity: The Story of the Mill Hill Missionaries. London, 1965. Dewey,Margaret. TheMessengers: A Concise HistoryoftheUSPG.London: Mowbrays, Barrow, M. Women,1870-1928: A SelectGuideto Printedand ArchivalSources in the 1975. United Kingdom. London: Mansell, 1981. Findlay, G. G., and W. W. Holdsworth. The History of the Wesleyan Methodist Catholic Archives Society. Directoryof Catholic Archivesin the United Kingdomand Missionary Society. 5 vols. London: Epworth Press, 1921. Eire. 2nd ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: Catholic Archives Society, 1989. Gale, H. P. Uganda and theMill Hill Fathers. London: Macmillan, 1959. Clendennen, G. W., and I. C. Cunningham. David Livingstone: A Catalogue of Goodall, Norman. A History of the London MissionarySociety. London: OUP, 1954. Documents. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1979. Green, S. G. TheStoryoftheReligious TractSociety. 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