UPPMss016.xml Guide to the Methodist Missions Correspondence 1836-1851 Methodist Missions Correspondence Finding aid prepared by Elizabeth Knight and Patt Leonard Funding for preparing this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. University of Puget Sound Archives ©2011
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2011 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2011-08-18 English Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Methodist Missions Correspondence Mss.016 University of Puget Sound, Archives & Special Collections
Collins Memorial Library 1500 N. Warner Street Tacoma, WA 98416-1021 (253) 879-3243 archives@pugetsound.edu http://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/collins-memorial-library/explore-the-library/university-archives/
Collection materials are in English. 0.5 linear feet 1 box 1836-1851 A selection of correspondence by multiple authors and received by Reverends R. Bangs, J.P. Durbin, and others, pertaining to missionary life and travel in California, Texas, New England, New York, Wisconsin, Panama, and Africa.

A collection of correspondence from California, Texas, New England, Wisconsin, etc., about the rigors of missionary life and travel. Some of the most interesting letters deal with the sea journey from New York to Panama (overland) and north by sea to San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest. There is also a letter or two from missionaries in Africa.

This collection is available for research.

 Bangs, R., Reverend Durbin, John P. (John Price), 1800-1876 Methodist Church--Missions Missionaries Religion