Japan through Western eyes [microform] : manuscript records of traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats, 1853-1941.

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Japan through Western eyes [microform] : manuscript records of traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats, 1853-1941.

Japan through Western eyes [microform] : manuscript records of traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats, 1853-1941.

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Correspondence and papers of John Caldwell Calhoun Newton, missionary, for the period 1870-1931. Newton was a pioneer missionary of the Methodist Church South to Japan. He first went to Japan in 1888 as a faculty member of the Kwansei Gakuin Union Mission College and Seminary in Kobe, Japan, later serving as president. His letters to family, friends and mission leaders in America describe the difficulties and frustrations of his work and provide insight into the working, domestic and religious lives of people in Japan. In his notebooks, he discusses issues such as US-Japan relations, missionary work in China and Japan, Japanese culture and pedagogy. (Reels 4-13). Papers of James Barr Robertson, a British resident of Shanghai circa 1870. He was a member of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce and a shareholder and board member of several companies. Letters discuss conditions in China and Japan. (Reel 18). Papers of Mary E. (McClain) Sword, including the letters of Hattie (McClain) Gring who was a missionary in Japan during the 1880s and 1890s. Sponsored first by the German Reformed Church and later by the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Grings lived in Yokohama, Tokyo and Kyoto. (Reels 18-20). Papers of William E. Tolbert, including letters from Elizabeth Russell, who had been a Methodist missionary in Nagasaki, Japan, to her friend, Emma Tolbert. Russell wrote about the Japanese customs, missionary work in Japan, the restoration of that country, and Russian refugees in Japan. (Reel 20).

Manuscripts.

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