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Collection
Identifier: Acc.13580
Scope and Contents
41 photographs of Peter Scott Kirkwood, teacher at Livingstonia, Malawi.Peter Scott Kirkwood was appointed as a teacher to Overtoun Institution in 1906. He married Janet Gilmour in 1910, and the couple`s first child, Janet Hinshaw Kirkwood, was born in April 1913. Kirkwood returned to Scotland in 1915 on furlough, and spent part of the First World War on service with the Y.M.C.A. After the birth of his son in January 1918, and leaving his wife behind in Scotland,...
Dates:
1906-1930
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13406
Scope and Contents
Lecture notes and reminiscences by Mrs Martha Steedman, 2012, on Miss Mary Scott, missionary of Kalimpong and Sikkim. Page 4 of the notes was not received from the donor. The notes are accompanied by early 21st century photographs of the school with which Miss Scott was so heavily involved in establishing at Gangtok and its surrounding area.
Dates:
2012
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13268/1-8
Scope and Contents
Letters, diary, notes and photographs, 1894-1920, of Dr William Summers Sutherland (1856-1924), Church of Scotland minister and missionary, and his wife, Annabella.Sutherland`s first posting as a missionary was to Darjeeling in 1879, later moving to the station at Kalimpong, India. Most of the papers in this archive relate to the two visits made by Sutherland to Bhutan. The first was in 1917, during which Sutherland was involved in the baptism of a Lepcha man. The second took...
Dates:
1890-1919, undated.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13435
Scope and Contents
Elizabeth worked as a Church of Scotland missionary nurse in Mlanje Mission, Malawi 1966-1971, then as a sister tutor in Ekwendeni Mission, Malawi 1983-1996. Elizabeth used this set of annotated slides to illustrate talks on her work in Malawi which she gave when home on furlough. Subjects covered include schools, nurses, the church and visits to Zomba. `Grace sufficient` by Rev. David J. Randall, published in 2009, tells the story of Elizabeth`s life.
Dates:
1966-1971
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13192
Scope and Contents
5 photographic slides, c.1950s-1960s, of Mr J. D. Brown, medical missionary in Calabar, 1957-1964.The images include a memorial for Mary Slessor, Free Church Missionary, in Use near Itu, where she spent the last months of her life, and her grave in Calabar. There is also an image of the Doctor`s house at the Mary Slessor Hospital in Itu. This was where Slessor had reportedly housed the twins she had rescued in the early part of the 20th century. Mr Brown worked as a medical...
Dates:
1957-1964.
