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History of Presbyterian mission work and missionaries. See the following related collections: Foreign missions; Domestic missions. Featured image: Missionary to China Aimee Boddy Millican (1884-1974) and radio broadcasting staff.

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Title:
Mr. Ward's Embassy.
Description:
An overview of the two American embassies in China. Written by W.A.P. Martin, a Presbyterian missionary. Pages 75-83 are missing from the manuscript.
Creator:
Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons), 1827-1916. (author)
Subject names:
Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons), 1827-1916--Archives., United States. Embassy (China), United States. Embassy (China)--History.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Diplomatic and consular service, American--China.
Geographic subjects:
China., China--Foreign relations--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344961
Title:
The Peiho and Peking.
Description:
A history of the Peking (Beijing) Mission. Written by W.A.P. Martin, a Presbyterian missionary to China.
Creator:
Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons), 1827-1916. (author)
Subject names:
Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons), 1827-1916--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Peking Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Peking Mission--History.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Beijing., Missionaries--China--Beijing.
Geographic subjects:
Beijing (China), Beijing (China)--Missions--History.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344702
Title:
Gertrude Roe Bayless memoir, 1923-1950.
Description:
Gertrude Roe Bayless' typed memoir of her years as a missionary and music teacher in China from 1923 through 1950.
Creator:
Bayless, Gertrude Roe, 1890- (author)
Subject names:
Bayless, Gertrude Roe, 1890---Archives., Bayless, Gertrude Roe, 1890-, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Hunan Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--20th century., Women missionaries--China--20th century., Missionaries--China--20th century., Church musicians--China., Music teachers--China.
Geographic subjects:
China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340163
Title:
Papers pertaining to Elisabeth Alden Scott Stam and Charles Ernest Scott, 1935-1940.
Description:
Includes pamphlets, sheet music, and clippings.
Creator:
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. (author), Scott, Charles Ernest, 1876- (author), Taylor, Mills J. (author)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church of North America. Board of Foreign Missions.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
Japan., United States., China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:325973
Title:
Henry William Rankin notebook on Divie Bethune McCartee.
Description:
Volume 2 of Henry William Rankin's notebooks on Divie Bethune McCartee, a 19th century missionary to China and Japan.
Creator:
Rankin, Henry William, 1851-1937. (author)
Subject names:
Rankin family--Archives., McCartee, Divie Bethune, 1820-1900.
Topics:
Missionaries--China--19th century., Missions--China--19th century., Missionaries--Japan--19th century., Missions--Japan--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Japan--Missions., China--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309256
Title:
Henry William Rankin notebook on Divie Bethune McCartee.
Description:
Volume 1 of Henry William Rankin's notebooks on Divie Bethune McCartee, a 19th century missionary to China and Japan. Pages 1, 4-5, 8-11, 14-19, 24-31, 44-53, 56-63, 66-123, and 128-133 of volume are blank.
Creator:
Rankin, Henry William, 1851-1937. (author)
Subject names:
Rankin family--Archives., McCartee, Divie Bethune, 1820-1900.
Topics:
Missionaries--China--19th century., Missions--China--19th century., Missionaries--Japan--19th century., Missions--Japan--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Japan--Missions., China--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:309209
Title:
Canton Union Normal School, 1921-1939.
Description:
Includes minutes, reports, photographs, and correspondence of the school.
Creator:
Union Normal School (Canton, China) (creator)
Subject names:
Union Normal School (Canton, China)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Guangzhou., Missions--Educational work--China--Guangzhou., Teachers colleges--China--Guangzhou.
Geographic subjects:
Guangzhou (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:288909
Title:
Broadcast Bulletin of the National Christian Council of China, August 4, 1941.
Description:
Issued frequently from 169 Yuen Ming Yuen Road, Shanghai, China. Series V. No. 47. Lois Anna Ely, Editor. August 4, 1941. Note: –The NCC Sunday Night Broadcast Hour is heard over station XMHA, Shanghai, 600 kilocycles or 500 meters; short wave, 11.8 megacycles, or 25.33 meters, at 9:45 p.m., Shanghai Daylight Saving Time.
Subject names:
National Christian Council of China.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Religious literature--Distribution--China--Shanghai.
Geographic subjects:
Shanghai (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:136435
Title:
"Our Dear Friends" letter by Elleroy and Mabelle Smith, November 10, 1937.
Description:
"Our Dear Friends" letter written by Elleroy and Mabelle Smith on November 10, 1937 in Ningbo, China. The letter provides updates about their mission in China, the recent military conflict between China and Japan, and their stay at the Millicans' house in Shanghai.
Creator:
Smith, Elleroy. (author), Smith, Mabelle. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican family--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945.
Geographic subjects:
Ningbo Shi (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:136428
Title:
Chinese missionaries miscellaneous letters, 1949 to 1950.
Description:
Miscellaneous letters written by missionaries in China, 1949 to 1950. Correspondence relates only tangentially to the Millicans, but is informative about the situation in China during the post-World War II years.
Creator:
Newman, Frank W. (author), Wagner, Dorothy. (author), Bannan, E. J. (author), Smith, Mabelle C. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries--China., Communism--China.
Geographic subjects:
Ningbo Shi (China), Hunan Sheng (China), China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:124454
Title:
Edith Millican miscellaneous writings, 1943 to 1982.
Description:
Edith Millican miscellaneous writings, 1943 to 1982. It includes prayers, mission reports, lecture notes, and essays. Also found is a 1957 letter addressed to Edith from her mother, Aimee Millican.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author), Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974.
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Mora County (N.M.), Stanwood (Wash.), Hengyang (Hunan Sheng, China), China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:124133
Title:
Edith Millican correspondence to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican.
Description:
Edith Millican correspondence to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican. Correspondence includes undated letters. Internal evidence was used to determine the approximate chronological order.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Millican family--Archives., Embudo Presbyterian Hospital (Embudo, N.M.)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Embudo (N.M.), Hengyang (Hunan Sheng, China), China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:123997
Title:
Edith Millican personal notebook, 1944 to 1948.
Description:
Edith Millican's personal notebook during her missionary service in China, 1944 to 1948. It includes journal entries, prayers and poetry.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Millican family--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Chenzhou (China), Hengyang (Hunan Sheng, China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:123908
Title:
Edith Millican incoming correspondence, 1949 to 1984.
Description:
Edith Millican incoming correspondence, 1949 to 1984. Correspondence authored by Muriel Boone, Frank W. Newman, Archie R. Crouch, and other friends.
Creator:
Boone, Muriel, 1893- (author), Crouch, Archie R. (author), Newman, Frank W. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
China., United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:123207
Title:
Edith Millican chapel talks notes.
Description:
Edith Millican chapel talks in Chinese, mostly given in Chenchow Hospital, (English notes).
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Chenzhou (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:123083
Title:
Edith Millican personal notebook, 1943 to 1946.
Description:
Edith Millican's personal notebook during her missionary service in China, 1943 to 1946. It includes date plans, meditations, study, chapel talks and miscellaneous notes regarding her trip to China.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Hengyang (Hunan Sheng, China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:122914
Title:
Edith Millican incoming correspondence, 1939 to 1948.
Description:
Edith Millican incoming correspondence, 1939 to 1948. Correspondence authored by Margaret B. Duncan, Marcia Kerr, Herrick B. Young, Muriel Boone, Frank W. Newman and other friends.
Creator:
Young, Herrick B. (author), Duncan, Margaret B. (author), Kerr, Marcia (author), Boone, Muriel, 1893- (author), Newman, Frank W. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
China., United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:122740
Title:
Chinese missionaries miscellaneous letters, Shanghai.
Description:
Miscellaneous letters written by missionaries in Shanghai, 1941-1949, 1972, 1982?, n.d. Also includes a 1972 letter addressed to Aimee Millican from the Woman's Missionary Union. Correspondence relates only tangentially to the Millicans, but is informative about the situation in China during the post-World War II years.
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions., Southern Baptist Convention. Woman's Missionary Union.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missions--Educational work--China., Evangelistic work--China., Religious literature--Distribution--China--Shanghai.
Geographic subjects:
Shanghai (China), China.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:122640
Title:
Edith Millican general letters, 1943 to 1967.
Description:
Edith Millican's "Dear Friends" letters, 1943 to 1967. The correspondence traces her medical missionary service in China, her residency at the Board of National Missions' Mora Valley Medical Unit in Cleveland, New Mexico, and her private practice in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985., Embudo Presbyterian Hospital (Embudo, N.M.)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
Embudo (N.M.), Hengyang (Hunan Sheng, China), Las Vegas (N.M.), Guizhou (Hubei Sheng, China), Hunan Sheng (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:122415
Title:
Edith Millican correspondence to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican.
Description:
Edith Millican correspondence to her parents, Aimee and Frank Millican. Correspondence includes undated letters. Internal evidence was used to determine the approximate chronological order.
Creator:
Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985. (author)
Subject names:
Millican, Frank R., 1883-1961., Millican, Aimee Boddy, 1884-1974., Millican, Edith F., 1914-1985.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China., Missionaries, Medical--China., Women physicians--China., Missionaries--China.
Geographic subjects:
China., Santa Fe (N.M.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:122202

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