Additional papers of Sam Higginbottom and Jane Ethelind Cody Higginbottom [manuscript] 1844-1971.

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Additional papers of Sam Higginbottom and Jane Ethelind Cody Higginbottom [manuscript] 1844-1971.

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The collection consists chiefly of family correspondence of Sam Higginbottom and Jane Ethelind Cody Higginbottom. In letters to each other, the Cody family, their children in school, particularly Gertrude Higginbottom Wallace and friends and fellow Presbyterian missionaries they discuss their work at the Naini Leper Asylum and the Allahabad Agricultural Institute on the Jumna Riber, Uttar Pradesh where they taught scientific agriculture and home economics. Though most of the correspondence concerns their work and daily activities, there are many references to the growing independence movement and its leaders M.K. Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Mrs. R.S. Pandit who knew and respected the Higginbottoms' work. In addition there is correspondence with the Board of Foreign missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. regarding Sam's fund raising tours, with Indian students in the U.S., and with financial supporters, as well as letters and diaries of the Cody family. Many of the letters after their 1944 retirement concern the establishment of a Christian Service Training Center in Frosproof, Fla. The collection also contains many short stories by Ethel Higginbottom based on her work and a copy of her book Through teakwood windows. Of interest are a thesis on home economics in India by K.S. Pandit and issues of The Harijan, Gandhi's newspaper. Articles and pamphlets about the Higginbottoms and Presbyterian missions in Asia are among the miscellaneous materials in the collection. There are many photographs of the family and the mission including one of Buffalo Bill and one of Indira (Nehru) Gandhi visiting the institute.

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