Scroll written in Chinese characters (photocopied in segments), undated

Includes three letters, a segment of Susan Rowena Bird’s personal journal, a Chinese scroll, and two newspaper clippings. The letters were written by Susan Rowena Bird to her nephew, Walter B. Bird, in 1899; from E.E. Strong to Ossian F. Bird, following the Boxer Rebellion in July 1900; and from W.A. Hemingway to his “Dear Father,” sent from Taiku, China in 1907. Rowena Bird’s journal, though incomplete, documents some of her experiences during the days leading up to the intrusion of rebellion into their small missionary community. The clippings include one article about the Widow of Sun Yat-Sen, whose sister was a wife of H.H. Kung, and one article about the anonymous and somewhat mysterious donation of $6 million to Oberlin College on behalf of H.H. Kung, an Oberlin graduate and former student of Susan Rowena Bird.