| Title |
Letters from American missionaries in China, 1939 |
| Alternate Title |
Letter dated 12 February 1931 from Charlotte Carhart to cousin Edith Park; Letter begun 10 November 1939 from Emma Boose Tucker |
| Scanning Technician |
Jake Trauscht |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn1107 bx 4 fd 2 |
| Description |
1. Letter dated 12 February 1931 from Charlotte Carhart to cousin Edith (Tallmon) Park, with family news and a reference to missionaries in Chile (2 pages); 2. Letter (4 pages) begun 10 November 1939 from Emma Boose Tucker at Shaoyang, Hunan, China, to her children, noting the Tuckers' imminent departure for Kweiyang; difficulties of travel in wartime; visit of Rev. Harold B. Rattenbury, Secretary for China of the London Home Committee; letter continued Nov. 15 at Kweiyang, describing the journey in a Red Cross truck; some description of conditions due to the Japanese military operations; description of mountainous Kweiyang and its native people, the Miao; 3. Letter dated 6 February 1939 from Lucy Burton at Berkeley to "Edie" (probably her aunt, Edith Tallmon Park); 4. Letter dated 12 November 1939 and signed A.B.T. or F. at Peking to American friends, describing recent travels of American missionaries and the arrival of refugees from Shansi |
| Creator |
Tucker, Emma Boose, 1870-1971; Carhart, Charlotte; Burton, Lucy |
| Subject |
Missionaries, Medical--China--Correspondence; Missionaries--China--Correspondence; Tallman family--Correspondence; Tucker family--Correspondence; Rattenbury, Harold B. (Harold Burgoyne); China--Description and travel; China--History--Sino-Japanese War,--1937-1945; Miao (Chinese people) |
| Digitization Specifications |
Original scanned on Epson Expression 10000 XL and saved as 400 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1939 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Type |
Text |
| Identifier |
1107-04-02 (Correspondence, 1937) |
| Rights Management |
This material may be protected by copyright. Permission required for use in any form. For further information please contact the Manuscripts Division, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6kk9cgw |
| Setname |
uum_sbts |
| ID |
1012341 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6kk9cgw |
