Board of Foreign Missions Records, 1908-1923 1908-1923.

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Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod of North America. Board of Foreign Missions. Board of Foreign Missions Records, 1908-1923 1908-1923.

Board of Foreign Missions Records, 1908-1923 1908-1923.

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This series contains records from the China Mission Board (CMB) from 1908-1923. They comprise handwritten and typewritten minutes, correspondence, financial records, corporation documents, and other reports chronicling the work and evolution of the CMB. Meeting minutes comprise the majority of the records in this series. There are three versions of CMB minutes found in this series. One notebook contains handwritten minutes from 1908-1923. A second notebook contains handwritten minutes from the same meetings recorded in the first notebook, but only from 1908-1918. Both sets of these minutes are written in Swedish until 1919. A second version of minutes is an English translation of the minutes contained in the 1908-1923 notebook. They are typewritten on looseleaf paper. A third version consists of handwritten rough drafts of minutes. They do not include every meeting. Other records include a financial notebook with handwritten entries of income and expenses for the CMB from 1908-1912, several pieces of correspondence pertaining to famine relief in China and updates on CMB field work, and two records relating to the corporation status of the CMB and its eventual dissolution and absorption into the Board of Foreign Missions. There is also an undated copy of proposed rules and regulations for missionaries, but it is unclear if this was a CMB document. There is also a publication from the Lutheran Free Church pertaining to a China report from their mission organization. Duplicate minutes were weeded.

3 boxes.

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eng,

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