Thomas Ellis and Etha Mills Reeve papers, 1887-1971.

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Thomas Ellis and Etha Mills Reeve papers, 1887-1971.

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The collection contains the personal papers of Thomas Ellis Reeve, Sr. and Etha Mills Reeve from ca. 1905-1929. The papers include family correspondence, diaries, legal and financial records, mission records, photographs, sermons, printed material, writings, and ephemera. The correspondence includes letters from Ellis Reeve to his parents while he was attending Emory College and Vanderbilt University, letters from his time in California, and letters while he was a missionary in the Belgian Congo. Correspondents include Methodist Episcopal Church Bishop W.R. (Walter) Lambuth and W.M. Morrison.

11 linear ft. : (25 boxes and 9 OP)

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8233388

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Vanderbilt University.

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Morrison, W. M. (William McCuthan), 1867-1918.

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Reeve, Thomas Ellis.

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Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

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Reeve, Etha Mills, 1883-1974.

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