Missionaries -- India

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Collection consists primarily of printed or mimeographed materials prepared for the centenary of Andrews's birth in 1971.

Scope and Contents Letters written by Ann Taylor Updegraff Allen to her family from the 1920s to the 1950s (folders divided by decade). The letters follow her through boarding school (the Kodaikanal School for Missionaries' Children, Highclerc Campus, as well as schools in England and Switzerland) to Bryn Mawr College, from where she graduated in 1942. Ann was the third child of David Benjamin Updegraff and Melanie Atherton Updegraff, following David Dirick (1919-1920), who died in infancy, and Melanie Parke...

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Items pertaining to David Benjamin Updegraff (1878-1953), husband of Melanie Atherton Updegraff. Series includes mission documents and obituaries, as well as letters written by David Updegraff. Also included are letters written to Melanie Updegraff offering condolences after the death of her husband in 1953.

Abstract Melanie Atherton Updegraff (1886-1973) was a 1908 graduate of Bryn Mawr who went on to do missionary work for the Presbyterian Mission Board alongside her husband, Reverend David Benjamin Updegraff. The two were primarily stationed in Kolhapur and later Nipani, in West India. The collection includes correspondence between Updegraff and her sisters, children, and sister-in-law, among other family members, photographs of the Atherton and Updegraff families, an autograph collection, and...

Scope and Contents Letters by Melanie Updegraff describing daily life and work in India. Written to the Presbyterian Mission Board. Copies titled, "Selected Letters, Years 1924-1947, to the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the USA, 156 Fifth Ave, New York, From Melanie Atherton Updegraff, Nipani, Western India, for her Children and Grandchildren, as part of their Heritage." Copied from the originals in the archives of the Presbyterian Church, USA, Philadelphia, by Elixabeth A. Updegraff...