Records of the Methodist Missionary Society: Inventory of Correspondence - Collection 163

[Note: The BGC Archives does not have the original documents of this collection. What it does have is a microfilm edition of the papers, which it purchased from a publisher, as did many other archives and libraries.]

[Note: What follows is a description of the documents in this collection which are available for use at BGC Archives in Wheaton, Illinois, USA. The actual documents are not, in most cases, available online, only this description of them. Nor are they available for sale or rent.]

Table of Contents

Brief Description of This Collection

Title Page and Restrictions

Historical Background of the Methodist Missionary Society: Inventory of Correspondence

An Essay on the Contents of the Collection (Scope and Content)

Lists of Microfilm in This Collection (Location Records)


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Collection 163
[March 16, 2001]
Methodist Missionary Society
Inventory of Correspondence; 1791-1931
70 Sheets of Microfiche

Restrictions

Originals are owned by the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Microfiche prepared by:

Inter Documentation Company
Poststrasse 14
6300 Zug-SWITZERLAND

Information on literary rights available from:

Nord Media, Ind.
127 W. 56th Street
New York, NY 10019

Historical Background

No information available.

Scope and Content

This collection points to records which document missionary activity in Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Austrlia, and Europe. The collection does not contain actual archival documents.

The seventy sheets of microfiche contain detailed inventories in typescript for a portion of the Archives of the Methodist Church, Overseas Division (also known as the Methodist Missionary Society) in England. This Archive, housed in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, includes Methodism materials dating from 1769. The records of the Archive consist of three distinct groups: Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, Women's Work, and Primitive Methodist Missionary Society.

Sheets 1 through 69 concern the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. They are inventories of selected folders of the whole collection, usually correspondence. No actual manuscripts are represented here. Sheet 70 deals with the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society.

Researchers should consult Elizabeth Bennett's Methodist Missionary Society Archives: Guide, available in both the Archives Reading Room and the Microform Room. This contains a listing of all records held as part of the Methodist Missionary Society collection. Files noted in that guide with an asterisk are those which are inventoried in detail on the microfiche in this collection. The Bennett guide was intended to serve as a finding aid to the microfiche edition of the Methodist Missionary Society collection, as yet unfinished in 1982.

Provenance

The microfiche in this collection is the property of the Center Library.

No Accession #
September 3, 1982
Galen R. Wilson

LOCATION RECORD
No Accession #
Type of Material: Microfilm

The following items are located in the CENTER LIBRARY MICROFILM ROOM:

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