Society of Friends -- Missions
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
William C. Allen diaries
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-001
Overview
Diaries of William C. Allen's religious visits around the world from 1904 to 1937. Entries generally describe the customs, manners, language, transportation, food, and religious beliefs of each location Allen visited, as well as Quaker meetings he lead and religious and political leaders he met with in each place he visited. One volume of the collection does not record a religious visit, but is a record of Allen's thoughts on World War I, which he kept during 1917.
Dates:
1904-1937
Bowles family correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1212
Abstract
The Bowles family was deeply involved with Quaker missionary and relief work during the 20th century. In 1900, the Bowles moved to Japan under the auspices of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and managed the Friends School and established the Tokyo Friends Center. During World War II, the Bowles family moved to Hawaii and worked with war refugees. The Bowles family correspondence consists of correspondence from Gilbert and Minnie Pickett Bowles to their son Gordon Townsend Bowles from 1922 to...
Dates:
1922-1960
Gilbert and Minnie Bowles correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-032
Overview
This collection is comprised of two accessions of the letters of Gilbert and Minnie Bowles. The collection is comprised of both private letters and public letters meant for circulation among Friends, written by Gilbert Bowles and his wife Minnie Bowles during their religious visits to India and Japan.
Dates:
1930-1949
Charles Evans diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-023
Overview
Charles Evans was a Quaker physician and was active in the Quaker community. His "Diary of a European Trip, 1861" details Evans's voyage from Philadelphia to England, including descriptions of the captain and other cabin passengers, illness on board, and the weather during the voyage. Upon arrival in England, diary entries relate visits to Friends, Quaker meetings, and Evans's tour of England.
Dates:
1861
Foreign Missionary Association Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Phy-830
Scope and Contents
Records of the Foreign Missionary Association of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1921-1953, include its Minutes (1882-1921) as well as the records of its Executive Board (1883-1923), International Committee (1918-1924), Young Women's Auxiliary and other Miscellaneous reports and correspondence (1883-1923). Also included are records from the Committee's Branches at Downingtown, Germantown, Haverford, Moorestown, Philadelphia and West Chester Meetings.
Dates:
1882-1923
Friends Service Council Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Service Council
Abstract
The collection includes minutes of meetings (May-December 1939), annual reports and yearbooks, periodicals, and pamphlets.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1939-1969
Stephen Grellet papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-967
Overview
Letters, diary fragments and other miscellaneous papers. Primarily related to Grellet's travels in Europe, Russia and Haiti as Quaker missionary. Topics include his spiritual life, meeting leaders of religious denominations in Europe, with Friends and other religious sects (Saints), visits to schools, prisons, poorhouses and hospitals during travels, visits with members of European aristocracy, Russian nobility and Pope Pius VII (1819), social and religious situation in Haiti (1816).
Dates:
1796 - 1955; Majority of material found within 1796 - 1833
Joseph Haines papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-095
Overview
This collection is comprised of three folders of the papers of Joseph H. Haines.
Dates:
1917-2002
International Outreach Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Phy-835
Halliday Jackson papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-101
Overview
This collection is comprised of the handwritten correspondence and a handwritten copy of the manuscript "Some Account of my Journey Among the Seneca" by Halliday Jackson.
Dates:
1799-1808
