Papers, 1883-1959, 1891-1909.

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Papers, 1883-1959, 1891-1909.

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The papers of China missionaries Alice Moon Williams (1860-1952) and her husband, the Rev. George Louis Williams (1858-1900), document the couple's eight-year residence in Shansi Province (1891-99) prior to the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 in which George L. Williams died. The outgoing correspondence of Alice Williams and the third-party correspondence of her missionary associates in the field comprise a particularly rich source of information about the daily lives of women missionaries in China. Letters of George Williams to his wife (November 1899-May 1900) express the fear and isolation of those missionaries who were about to lose their lives. The bulk of the collection consists of several hundred photographs (1891- ca. 1951) and printed materials (1895-1959) documenting life in China and the educational work of the Shansi Mission. A small amount of materials relates to Chinese internal stsruggles from 1912 to 1949.

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