'William Turnbull Balmer: Pioneer in Educational Mission'

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Photocopy of a corrected typescript manuscript on Balmer's life and work probably written by Rev H E Thomas. With list of Balmer's publications for Atlantis Press.

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Rev William Turnbull Balmer (1866-1928) served the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society as a missionary in Sierra Leone from 1901 to 1909 & 1914 to 1921 and their Gold Coast District from 1909 to 1911.

Rev Hugh Ernest Thomas (1915-1992) served the Methodist Missionary Society as a missionary in Sierra Leone from 1939 to 1946 & 1977 to 1981, The Gambia from 1948 to 1949 and their Gold Coast District from 1949 to 1967.

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Gift to Methodist Church Overseas Division from Rev H E Thomas, March 1989

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(Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society ArchiveMMS

Home and GeneralMMS/01

North AmericaMMS/02

West Indies [Caribbean and Americas]MMS/03

EuropeMMS/04

AfricaMMS/05

West AfricaMMS/06

South AfricaMMS/07

Ceylon [Sri Lanka]MMS/08

IndiaMMS/09

Southern IndiaMMS/10

Northern IndiaMMS/11

Australasia/South Seas [South Pacific]MMS/12

China & South East AsiaMMS/13

KenyaMMS/14

Burma [Myanmar]MMS/15

Central AfricaMMS/16

Special SeriesMMS/17

Notes and TranscriptsMMS/17/01

Notes and Transcripts: Series 1MMS/17/01/01

Notes and Transcripts: Series 2MMS/17/01/02

Lecture by Rev Canon Douglas Webster entitled 'The Christian Mission in the Secular World'MMS/17/01/02/001

'The Claxtons: The Preacher - The Painter 1779-1881'MMS/17/01/02/002

Publications principally on Women's missionary workMMS/17/01/02/003

'Newly Autonomous Methodist Church in Kenya' by R Elliott KendallMMS/17/01/02/004

Leaflet on the Conference of the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and Americas by Rev Hugh SherlockMMS/17/01/02/005

'The Conference of the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and Americas' by Rev Hugh SherlockMMS/17/01/02/006

Memorial service for the Rt Hon Sir Hugh Olliviere Beresford Wooding, Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Barbados, at James Street Methodist ChurchMMS/17/01/02/007

'Thy Place is Everywhere. A Glimpse of the Work of a Pioneer Missionary in Nigeria' by Miss E RichardsonMMS/17/01/02/008

Memoir of Rev Leonard W JubyMMS/17/01/02/009

Three essays by the Rev Stanley SmithMMS/17/01/02/010

Circular letters from Alan Taylor DaleMMS/17/01/02/011

'Religion in China - Some Notes and Observations'MMS/17/01/02/012

Papers relating to Muriel Hollinshed's missionary work in BurmaMMS/17/01/02/013

'Material for Discussion Group in Parapat'MMS/17/01/02/014

An address entitled 'The Gold Coast - Yesterday and Today!' by Rev E Sawyer with related correspondenceMMS/17/01/02/015

Papers relating to A Harold Wood's research into Methodist missionary work in the Lucknow and Benares District of IndiaMMS/17/01/02/016

Notes on the history of Methodism in CanadaMMS/17/01/02/017

'Dialogue for Easter Offering Service 1983'MMS/17/01/02/018

'Address given by Rev R Wilfrid Pile at the Memorial Service for Douglas Weddell Thompson, 1903-1981'MMS/17/01/02/019

'Missionaries serving in the Lucknow and Benaras District'MMS/17/01/02/020

'A Very Long Postrcript to 'MMS in the Seventies' or "Wish Me Luck as I Wave you Goodbye!"' by CMM [Colin Morris]MMS/17/01/02/021

Papers relating to rules and membership of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in RhodesiaMMS/17/01/02/022

Four small MMS booklets written by a Methodist laymanMMS/17/01/02/023

'Methodist Union and Missions' edition of 'The Foreign Field'MMS/17/01/02/024

Printed material relating to the Diocese of MadrasMMS/17/01/02/025

Report by Cyril Osborne, MP, of his visit to ChinaMMS/17/01/02/026

'Herbert Owen Chapman 1884-1972: The Quiet Revolutionary' by H McClellandMMS/17/01/02/027

Papers relating to Methodism and women in South AfricaMMS/17/01/02/028

'Reports of the work of the Methodist Mission in South India during the year 1947'MMS/17/01/02/029

Notes on Thomas Birch Freeman and his workMMS/17/01/02/030

'Report of Work Amongst Women and Girls in Kenya'MMS/17/01/02/031

Copy material on Methodism in Zambia and ZimbabweMMS/17/01/02/032

Genealogical table of De Genest Petras de CajareMMS/17/01/02/033

Information on children's games and pastimes, children's songs and stories which teach certain values in KenyaMMS/17/01/02/034

References to overseas missionary work in the 'Aldersgate' Primitive Methodist magazineMMS/17/01/02/035

'The MMS & The History of our work in China. An Essay about Essays' by Donald B ChildeMMS/17/01/02/036

Photocopy of the diary of Marjorie Redhead (nee Hicks)MMS/17/01/02/037

'Visit to Burma, November 1974' by Rev Stanley VincentMMS/17/01/02/038

Poem entitled 'Medical Instructions for Missionaries in India'MMS/17/01/02/039

'Notes regarding Dr Hudson and Mannargudi' by Dr Edward Charlton HudsonMMS/17/01/02/040

Reports to MCOD committees on a visit to ChinaMMS/17/01/02/041

Two editions of 'African Challenge' containing an article by Rev Ernest Bruce entitled 'I Grew Up With History'MMS/17/01/02/042

'A Century of Methodist Tradition in Mount Morgan'MMS/17/01/02/043

'John Hartley and his Family. A Brief Account of the Family of the Rev John Hartley, Wesleyan Minister' compiled by Carol Penelope HartleyMMS/17/01/02/044

Papers relating to Methodist Guest HouseMMS/17/01/02/045

'Sizane Vocational Secondary School'MMS/17/01/02/046

Newsletter of the Methodist Historical Society of the Plymouth and Exeter District (vol 5, no 4)MMS/17/01/02/047

'Bude-Cardiff Sri-Lankan Exchange 1983-1984'MMS/17/01/02/048

'Dahomey Revisited' by W J PlattMMS/17/01/02/049

'Report of address given at WW May meeting'MMS/17/01/02/050

'Visit to Papua New Guinea, November 1974' by Rev Stanley VincentMMS/17/01/02/051

Baptism Hymn by W E SangstorMMS/17/01/02/052

'Church of South India Statistical Review for 1966-67' by J Cyril RajMMS/17/01/02/053

Dissertation on French Calvinism (including its overseas missions) by John R PerryMMS/17/01/02/054

'Methodist Church East Anglia District News for Women'MMS/17/01/02/055

'British Council of Churches Division of International Affairs Dossier on the The Falkland Islands'MMS/17/01/02/056

'Methodist Commitment in Education in Africa. A Report prepared by the Educational Advisory Group Methodist Missionary Society'MMS/17/01/02/057

'Historical Sketch of the Methodist Church in Mende-Land 1892-1966 (part 1)' by Rev P F JibaoMMS/17/01/02/058

Programme for the opening and dedication of the Tongofield Methodist Church, Sierra LeoneMMS/17/01/02/059

Typescript copy of a booklet on a Chinese Methodist familyMMS/17/01/02/060

'To Dabou and Back'MMS/17/01/02/061

'Royal Free Hospital Missionaries'MMS/17/01/02/062

Notes on Methodist missionary work in their Ningpo District, ChinaMMS/17/01/02/063

Papers on Methodism in France and the Prunier family of FresnesMMS/17/01/02/064

'From Mission to Church in South India' by Margaret JamesMMS/17/01/02/065

Newsletter of the Methodist Historical Society of the Plymouth and Exeter District (vol 6, no 7)MMS/17/01/02/066

Sermons by Rev William GoudieMMS/17/01/02/067

Publications and notes on Methodism in NigeriaMMS/17/01/02/068

'History of Emmanuel Methodist Church, Akwatia' by S B ImpraimMMS/17/01/02/069

'Well Begun - And All Done? The Story of Women's Work'MMS/17/01/02/070

Papers relating to the Methodist mission in and around Ningpo [Ningbo], ChinaMMS/17/01/02/071

Articles by E Harper on Methodist missionsMMS/17/01/02/072

'In Haiti: Blind See Captives Free Poor Have Good News' [by Rev Henry Ormonde McConnell]MMS/17/01/02/073

Two letters from Methodist missionaries in China to Mr JonesMMS/17/01/02/074

'The Political Career of Edward Francis Small' by David PerfectMMS/17/01/02/075

Papers relating to Rev Samuel Broadbent and his son Dr Lewis BroadbentMMS/17/01/02/076

Printed material relating to Methodism in the Caribbean in the C20thMMS/17/01/02/077

Printed material relating to Meston College of Education, Madras [Chennai], IndiaMMS/17/01/02/078

Handwritten notes on the Mama Chi cult by E[phraim] S AlphonseMMS/17/01/02/079

Notes by Mrs Ellis on her life in England and West AfricaMMS/17/01/02/080

Extracts from publications on Methodist missionary work in West AfricaMMS/17/01/02/081

Two plays by Phil J Fisher on Methodist missionsMMS/17/01/02/082

Notes from of an interview by P Ellingsworth with W J PlattMMS/17/01/02/083

Biographical sketch of the Rev Richard Ridgill by E.R.RMMS/17/01/02/084

'Front Runners and Back Room Boys' by Fred StainthorpeMMS/17/01/02/085

Article on Dr George H Pearson by Dr Huang Chi-shuangMMS/17/01/02/086

'Tonga. Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga "The Mountain Of Tonga Is The Mind"'MMS/17/01/02/087

Material relating to a film on Dabou Hospital, Ivory CoastMMS/17/01/02/088

Biographical material on the Rev D Howard SmithMMS/17/01/02/089

'Interview Between Rev D. A. Rees (Tumkur) South India and Mr M. K. Gandhi re: Passive Resistance'MMS/17/01/02/090

'A Declaration by the Methodist Church of Great Britain on Racial Policy in the Territories of Southern Africa'MMS/17/01/02/091

'William Turnbull Balmer: Pioneer in Educational Mission'MMS/17/01/02/092

'Missionary Prayer Circular' letters from Douglas Maw, Ivory CoastMMS/17/01/02/093

'John R & Ruth Temple in China 1910-1923'MMS/17/01/02/094

Papers relating to education for girls in South India provided by Methodist missionariesMMS/17/01/02/095

Papers relating to Methodist Bible translatorsMMS/17/01/02/096

Papers relating to the creation of the Women's Network of the Methodist ChurchMMS/17/01/02/097

Two draft articles by Paul Ellingworth on Methodist missionMMS/17/01/02/098

'Letters Home from Emily M Ewins. An on the spot record of revolutionary events in Hankow and Wuchang, Central China 1911-1912'MMS/17/01/02/099

'A Brief History of the Ilorin Circuit and Borgu Mission, Nigeria' by R Nelson LudlowMMS/17/01/02/100

Photocopy of Rev C Hutchinson's diaryMMS/17/01/02/101

Circular letters and jottings relating to health issues in the MMS Hyderabad District, IndiaMMS/17/01/02/102

'What are the Churches Doing?'MMS/17/01/02/103

Two documents relating to the newly formed United Church of ZambiaMMS/17/01/02/104

Three account books for Methodist churches in Yunnan, ChinaMMS/17/01/02/105

Journal of Mr NobleMMS/17/01/02/106

Circular letter from Alan Taylor DaleMMS/17/01/02/107

Correspondence by D S Ching on William TowlerMMS/17/01/02/108

Genealogical information on Rev Francis MoonMMS/17/01/02/109

Information on George Rose, a former soldier and possibly a United Methodist ministerMMS/17/01/02/110

Newspaper cuttings and programmes of service regarding Wesleyan Methodist Church in MalaysiaMMS/17/01/02/111

Three unpublished articles on Rev George LoweMMS/17/01/02/112

Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society commercially produced postcards of missionary work in China and IndiaMMS/17/01/02/113

Research notes and publications on inter-faith relationships in Trinidad and TobagoMMS/17/01/02/114

'Joki Baba Basingstoke Feb 1943'MMS/17/01/02/115

'Visitation of the Mid and Northern Districts of the Hakka Church'MMS/17/01/02/116

Typescript of lecture given at Abbott Hall [Cumbria] entitled 'South-East Asia'MMS/17/01/02/117

'Some recollections of Secondary School Education in Nigeria - 1940-1961' by Norman MorrisMMS/17/01/02/118

'Youth Exchange Survey'MMS/17/01/02/119

'An Address Delivered at the Service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving for James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, M.A., D.D., PhD., Assistant Vice-Principal, Prince of Wales College, at Achimota on Sunday 7th August 1927 by The Rev. C. Kingsley Williams, Assistant Vice-Principal.'MMS/17/01/02/120

'One-man Band: Thomas Coke and the origins of Methodist Missions' by John A VickersMMS/17/01/02/121

'To the Wesleyan Ministers in Australia, Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania], New Zealand, Tonga, and Fejee [Fiji]'MMS/17/01/02/122

Annotated typed notes entitled 'African Pot Making'MMS/17/01/02/123

'Appendix III: Estimate of approximate additional expenditure involved in the recommendations of the Trichinopoly Mass Movement Commision'MMS/17/01/02/124

Correspondence on SantaliMMS/17/01/02/125

Brief notes on the Waddilove Training Institution, Marandellas [Marondera, Zimbabwe] by Rev John WhiteMMS/17/01/02/126

'The Earliest Years of Methodism in Hong Kong According to Minutes of the Canton District Meeting 1882, 1883 and 1884'MMS/17/01/02/127

'A Year in China 1926-27' by Catherine PicklesMMS/17/01/02/128

'Brief account of life & work of Fred W J Cottrell'MMS/17/01/02/129

'Some Notes on the North China District of the Methodist Church, 1946-1950' by Eric BartonMMS/17/01/02/130

'Some account of Happenings at Shaoyang, 1950 to 1951'MMS/17/01/02/131

'Life in a Japanese Internment Camp' by Dorothy BatesMMS/17/01/02/132

'Diary of Tour Round the World. Mary Lillian Rothwell. May 15th-November 16th 1925'MMS/17/01/02/133

Two letters written by Charis Mayo from South-West China to her parentsMMS/17/01/02/134

Typed transcription of Rev Donald B Childe's diariesMMS/17/01/02/135

Notes on Trincomalee Methodist Church [Sri Lanka]MMS/17/01/02/136

'Methodism in the Caribbean with particular reference to unity' [by John Poxon]MMS/17/01/02/137

'Methodism Caenwood & Lyndhurst Church'MMS/17/01/02/138

Three newspaper cuttings on the abduction of staff and students from Tegwani mission school, Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]MMS/17/01/02/139

Copy of notes entitled 'The Place and Function of Missionaries in the Hong Kong Methodist Church 1950-1963' by Rev Desmond GillilandMMS/17/01/02/140

Typed transcript of 'Reminiscences of Missionary Life in the West Indies' by Reverend G G Huxtable, 1902MMS/17/01/02/141

'Our Visit to Madurantakam, Tamil Nadu, India, 29 February, 2004' by William and Sheila SimpsonMMS/17/01/02/142

Papers relating to Christianity in China including The National Christian CouncilMMS/17/01/02/143

Transcriptions of letters written by the Rev Robert Dixon, 1905-1908MMS/17/01/02/144

Summaries of letters written by Rev & Mrs William Luddington to their daughterMMS/17/01/02/145

Information on Peregrine PickleMMS/17/01/02/146

'A Little Help Towards The Kingdom - The Life and work of Rev Frank B Wilby: Minister and Missionary' [by Peter Wilby]MMS/17/01/02/147

Typescript copy of the Rev James Foster, Wesleyan Methodist minister, call to also serve the Reformed Dutch Church in [island of] St Thomas, 1894MMS/17/01/02/148

Incomplete typescript copy of Ivy M Taylor's travel log to Nigeria with material relating to her sister, ElsieMMS/17/01/02/149

'Our Nineteenth Century South Pacific Fleet: The Methodist Navy's Three Tall Ships'MMS/17/01/02/150

Material relating to Rev Dr William J PlattMMS/17/01/02/151

Articles, etc, by Rev Arthur Preston Hadwen and family on missionary life in ChinaMMS/17/01/02/152

Transcripts of letters written by Rev George Lockett to the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary SocietyMMS/17/01/02/153

Typescript biography of Edward Daniel Webb by Rosemary FisherMMS/17/01/02/154

Preachers' Plan for Negapatam and Tiruvarur [Circuit], Wesleyan [Methodist] MissionMMS/17/01/02/155

'A Detective Story' by Geoffrey SeniorMMS/17/01/02/156

Circular letters written by Ruth Angrove from South India and NepalMMS/17/01/02/157

Letters, with transcript and notes, regarding the probationer studies of George PriceMMS/17/01/02/158

'Women's Work: Mary Batchelor to Muriel Stennett'MMS/17/01/02/159

Transcripts, newspaper cuttings and pamphlets on Methodism and L'Église Protestante Méthodiste in the Ivory CoastMMS/17/01/02/160

Articles from newspapers and magazines (including typed translations) and typed notes on Methodism and L'Église Protestante Méthodiste in the Ivory CoastMMS/17/01/02/161

'Gideon Ouseley Itinerant Methodist Preacher (1762-1839)' by Joseph DowneyMMS/17/01/02/162

'150 years of Methodism in Kenya' by Andrew MackenzieMMS/17/01/02/163

Notes compiled by Reverend Paul Jefferies on the Methodist mission in their Hunan District, ChinaMMS/17/01/02/164

Transcript of letter from Sarah Thomas, Lifuka Haspaais [Haʻapai Group,Tonga] South Seas, to George Hartshorne, Oldswinford, near Stourbridge, Worcestershire, 12 July 1831MMS/17/01/02/165

Overview and summary of an article entitled 'Decay of Methodism in the West Indies and its Causes. Papers I-VIII' by L.M.N.R, 1899MMS/17/01/02/166

Biographical PapersMMS/17/02

Various PapersMMS/17/03

Missionary Ships' PapersMMS/17/04

'1786-1986 Celebrate Together'MMS/17/05

'Sounds Interesting'MMS/17/06

Primitive Methodist Missionary SocietyMMS/PMMS

United Methodist Missionary SocietyMMS/UMMS

Women's WorkMMS/WW