Edith Winifred Simester papers [microform], 1930-1952.

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Edith Winifred Simester papers [microform], 1930-1952.

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Collection comprises mainly incoming correspondence from Methodist missionary colleagues and former students of Edith Winifred Simester, a Methodist missionary who served in China, and later Brazil, from the 1930s through the 1950s. Collection includes a letterbook with transcriptions of Simester's letters to her mother, dated February 24, 1945 to September 6, 1946. Some correspondence is authored by Methodist missionary women in Tianjin, Ch'angli, and Beijing. There are also several letters from Brazilian César Dacorso Filho, and a few clippings from 1949.

1 microfilm reel; 35 mm.

Harvard University, Divinity School Library

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Harvard University, Divinity School Library

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Methodist Church (U.S.)

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Simester, Edith Winifred.

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American Edith Winifred Simester was born into a Methodist missionary family in China and attended Chinese schools, moving to the United States for college and graduate work. In 1930 she became a missionary and moved to Foochow (Fuzhou) in northern China, where she taught in a missionary school. After 1946 she took a missionary post in Brazil to be closer to the U.S. and her mother, who died in 1952. From the description of Edith Winifred Simester papers, 1930-1952. (University of Or...

Dacorso Filho, César

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