Papers, 1850 (1904-1978)

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Papers, 1850 (1904-1978)

Correspondence, photographs, diaries, home movies, etc., of Margaret Cook Thomson, teacher and missionary in China for the United Presbyterian Church.

4 cartons, 3 motion pictures

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Smith College.

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Since 1900, Christmas at Smith College has involved the sending of cards, the singing of carols and the annual Vespers. Smith College's Christmas Vespers has allowed religious and non-religious students alike to come together and appreciate the music and spirit of the holiday season. At this annual candlelight ceremony, Smith College choral groups perform seasonal songs and religious readings. From the description of Records of Christmas at Smith College, 1900-[ongoing]. (Smith Colle...

Thomson family

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

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Pearl S. Buck was the daughter of American missionary parents, and spent the first seventeen years of her life in China. Her third novel, The Good Earth, won the Pulitzer Prize, and a Nobel Prize for literature followed, citing The Good Earth as well as her biographies of her parents. Critical reception for her works has been mixed since these early successes. A prolific and optimistic author, most of her fiction is set in China, and she displays great affection for the place and her characters....

Margaret (Cook) Thomson, 1889-1975

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Margaret (Cook) Thomson, born in 1889, the daughter of Robert A. Cook and Margaret (McIntosh) Seabury, was brought up by her aunts and attended Smith College, A.B. 1911. She married James Claude Thomson in 1917, a chemist and nutrition expert. In 1917 they went to the University of Nanking, where JCT was Chairman of the Department of Chemistry, and remained there (except for furloughs home) until the communist takeover in 1949. During the Japanese occupation of China, the university...

University of Nanking, China

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International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan)

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Thomson, James Claude, 1889-1974.

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