Helen Fayville Topping papers, 1872-1968.

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Helen Fayville Topping papers, 1872-1968.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/298213753

This collection consists of both Helen Topping's and Toyohiko Kagawa's records as well as mutual correspondence. The materials include his addresses, mostly issues of his various English-language publications, and publicity materials regarding Kagawa and his work. There is an unpublished translation of a Japanese biography by Haruichi Yokoyama in the collection. There are also numerous first-hand accounts of Japanese and even Chinese social conditions and missionary activities, and a good bit of material on cooperatives in the Philippines. Among the typescripts in the collection (Kagawa was the author of over 150 books in Japanese) is the third of his autobiographical novels, Listening to the Walls, which is translated but unpublished in English.

76.00 boxes.

Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7275720

Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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Kagawa, Toyohiko, 1888-1960

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Toyohiko Kagawa was a Japanese evangelist, labor union organizer, poet, and pacifist. From the description of Kagawa Toyohiko papers, 1929-1968 (bulk 1936-1954). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122529328 ...

Topping, Helen, 1889-1981

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Helen Topping was born April 12, 1889, in Rochester, New York, the daughter of two American missionaries, Genevieve and Henry Topping. In 1895 she was taken to Japan for six years, which began her interest in other cultures. She attended the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago and began spreading Parker's theories of education. In 1905 at a religious conference at Silver Bay, Wisconsin, she dedicated herself to missionary work. She later obtained degrees in education from a Baptist school, Denis...