Miscellaneous Historical Files Collected by Alice M. Williams, 1891-1959, undated

Contains mainly printed materials collected by Alice Moon Williams and her family concerning the history of the Shansi Mission and internal struggles in China after the Boxer Uprising. The series is divided into three subseries.Subseries I: includes an incomplete run of eight annual reports of the Shansi Mission and its schools from the period 1895 to 1921; minutes of various meetings of the North China Mission of the American Board (1903, 1908, 1912); printed materials (1891-1950) relating to the educational work of the Shansi missionaries; and biographical information (1912-50) on individual missionaries, including Luella Miner (1861-1935; A.B. Oberlin 1884), Leonard Fisk Wilbur (1907-40), and Dr. W. A. Hemingway (1874-1932). Files are alphabetically arranged by type of material. Subseries II: includes personal and printed accounts of events surrounding the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. Located here is the fragment of a sheet given to H. H. Kung by the Rev. George Williams to identify himself during the chaotic days of July 1900. Personal accounts are filed before printed accounts and are followed by non-textual material. Subseries III: contains C. H. Fay's manuscript account of events leading to the creation of the Chinese Republic in 1912; file copies of reports issued by the mission at Peiping (1935-36, 1948); and various guides to China (1916-59) of a general nature. Files are chronologically arranged.