Papers, 1886-1951.

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Papers, 1886-1951.

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Outgoing correspondence (1886-1941) including letters addressed to friends and associations; birthday greetings received on her 80th birthday, many from former students; address book; personal reminiscences, including remarks about her travel to China from Georgia, conditions in Shanghai, travel in the interior regions, and events in Soochow; personal accounts of several Chinese individuals who became refugees during the Sino-Japanese Conflict (1938-1941); charity distribution list, containing record of cash receipts from 1938 and a relief fund record (1941); a few documents written in Chinese; speech (n.d.) by one of her pupils; clippings; photographs; and some biographical material on Katherine Lew and her husband, Timothy Tingfang Lew, students whose U.S. citizenship was sponsored by Atkinson.

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United Methodist Church, General Commission on Archives and History

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Lew, Timothy Tingfang.

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Atkinson, Virginia M., 1861-1941

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