Papers of W.E. Blackstone, 1891-1979.

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Papers of W.E. Blackstone, 1891-1979.

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Correspondence, organizational reports, miscellaneous mission organization reports, book orders, financial statements involving home and foreign missionaries as well as indigenous Christian workers, people and organizations who received support from the Milton Stewart Evangelistic Fund of which Blackstone was sole trustee, petitions to Presidents Harrison and Wilson concerning formation of a country for Jews, especially for displaced Russian Jews in Palestine and the evangelization of Jews around the world, expecially China, India, Israel (then Palestine), Poland, and Russia.

8 boxes (3.4 cubic feet)

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