Adams, Joseph Samuel Papers

Collection — Oversize_Box: OS3, Folder: Oversized photographs 1 of 2, Folder: Oversized photographs, two, Edinburgh conference 1910

Identifier: RG-1006

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Diaries kept during missionary service; correspondence with Rachel Braithwaite; general 1890-1900; circular letters and clippings 1894-1897; missionary letters 1899-1910; Anti-Opium Campaign clippings 1892-1893; records of the closing of the Central China Baptist Mission, 1920; two photograph albums.

Scrapbooks on China missionaries and the Anti-Opium Union, Cadbury’s Model village of Bourneville and other sites in England, including many churches.

Dates

Creation: 1890-1920

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and copyright holder. Staff may refuse copying of fragile or at-risk materials.

Materials may be accessed by request at the American Baptist Historical Society. For more information on accessing collections or obtaining copies, visit http://abhsarchives.org.

Biographical / Historical

Baptist missionary. With spouse, Eleanor S., appointed to Central China by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society in 1882.

Extent

4 Linear Feet (11 manuscript boxes, 2 flat boxes, and 2 oversized folders of photographs in oversized box 3)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Bibliography

Stub entry from A Guide to Manuscript Collections in the American Baptist Historical Society, compiled by William H. Brackney and Susan M. Eltscher (Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and Rochester, New York, 1986).