Friends' Opportunity in the Orient
Scope and Contents
Letters, treasurer's reports, pictures and other papers relating to the work of the organization.
Dates
- Creation: 1923-1924
Creator
- Friends Opportunity in the Orient (Organization) (Organization)
- Augur, Margaret Riggs (Contributor, Person)
- Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China) (Contributor, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical
Friends Opportunity in the Orient was an unofficial Hicksite organization which sponsored a Quaker teacher in Canton, China, in the 1920s.
Extent
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Friends Opportunity in the Orient was an unofficial Hicksite organization which sponsored a Quaker teacher in Canton, China, in the 1920s. The collection contains primarily correspondence with Margaret Hallowell Riggs, who was sponsored to teach at Canton Christian College and Canton Hospital.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into four series. The series are:
- Correspondence
- Treasurer's Report
- Pictures
- Other papers relating to the organization.
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Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Bernard Walton, 1957
Immediate Source of Acquisition
These papers were given to Bernard Walton, secretary, by Alfred Wright, treasurer, and by Bernard Walton to the Friends Historical Library.
Subject
- Canton Christian College (Organization)
- Friends Opportunity in the Orient (Organization) (Organization)
Topical
- Education -- China
- Hicksites -- Societies, etc.
- Hicksites -- United States
- Hospitals -- China
- Hospitals -- China
- Hospitals -- China -- Guangzhou
- Quaker women -- China
- Quakers -- China
- Quakers -- Education -- China
- Quakers -- Societies, etc.
- Quakers -- United States
- Society of Friends -- Missions -- China
- Teachers, Foreign -- China
- Universities and colleges -- China
- Universities and colleges -- China
- Universities and colleges -- China -- Guangzhou
- Women teachers
- Title
- An Inventory of the Friends' Opportunity in the Orient Records, 1923-1924
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 2000
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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