Missionary Research Library Collection
An outcome of the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910, the MRL was founded in 1914 by John R. Mott in connection with the Foreign Missions Conference of North America. In 1929 the MRL was housed in the Brown Memorial Tower of Union Theological Seminary, its Board of Trustees composed of FMC-NA (later DOM-NCCCUSA) and UTS members. In 1967 its unique collections, heritage of Ecumenical Protestantism, were transferred into the care of the UTS Library.
The MRL contains collections of named missionaries' papers and institutional records within geographic divisions:
Note:Some of the collections listed below are awaiting processing, or are being processed and are not yet accessible.
Please contact archives@uts.columbia.edu for further details and access information before visiting the library.
Series 1. Africa
Aggrey, James Emman Kwegyir, 1875 - 1927
All Africa Chirstian Conference, 1965 - 1970
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Basel Mission on the Gold-Coast, West Africa
Livingstone, David, 1813 - 1873 [2 items]
Lutheran Missionary Societies
Nassau, Robert Hamill, 1835 - 1921
Richards, Erwin H.
Richter, Julius
Ross, Emory, 1887 - 1973
German Missionaries in Cameroon reports
Series 2. Near/Middle East
Ali, Mohammed and Badiallah
American Constantinople Relief Committee
Dennis, James Shepard, 1842 - 1914
Greene, Joseph Kingsbury, 1834 - 19??
Pease, Lorenzo Warriner, 1809 - 1839
Shedd, (Mrs.) W.A.
Series 3. South Asia
American Madura Mission, South India
American Marathi Mission
Ballantine, Henry, 1846 - 1914
Bowen, George, 1816 - 1888
Brown, William Adams, 1865 - 1943
Bush, C.P.
Chapin, William Wilberforce, 1836 - 1865
"A Church is born"
Davis, F.G.
Fleming, Daniel Johnson, 1877 - 1969
Griswold, Hervey DeWitt, 1860 - 1945
Hard, Clark P.
Oldham, J. H.
Padamanjí, Bãbã, 1831 - 1906
Ram, Augustine Ralla
Views in Lucknow
Series 4. Southeast Asia
Abdullah, Munshi
Davis, Bertha
Hume, R.E.
Laubach, Frank C.
Series 5. East Asia
Series 6. China
Bashford, James Whitford, 1849 - 1919
Bates, Miner Searle, 1897 - 1978
Boynton, Charles Luther, 1881 - 1967
Brown, Margaret H.
Brown, Mark W.
Catholic University, Art Department, Peiping, China
China Continuation Committee
China Information Committee
Christian Evangelistic and Religious Educational Posters, 1930 - 1949
Christian Scrolls and Bible verses, 1930 - 1949
Conference on American Relations with China
Corbett, Hunter, 1835 - 1920 + Harold F. Smith, 1885 - 1965
Cressy, Earl H.
Daniels, Dr. + Mrs. T Horton
Dodd, Samuel
Frame, Alice Browne, 1878 - 1941, (Alice Seymour Browne)
Hayes, Paul Goodman, 1890 - ?
Headland, I. T.
Higher Education Institutions in China
Hume, Edward Hicks, 1876 - 1957
Lew, Timothy Tingfang, 1891 - 1947
Lobenstine, Edwin Carlyle, 1872 - 1958
Lyon, David Willard, 1870 - 1949
Matthews, Harold Shepard
National Christian Council of China
National Phonetic Promotion Committee
Nestorian Tablet copies
Newell, George M.
Olyphant, D.W.C.
Rawlinson, Frank, 1871 - 1937
Sites, Nathan
Smith, William Edward, 1864 - 1944
Student Evangelism in Government Universities
Tewksbury, Elwood G. & Donald G., 1890 - 1959
Thurston, Matilda Calder
United China Relief, Inc.
Warnshuis, Abbe Livingston, 1877 - 1963
Whiteside, Joseph
Yates, M.T.
Series 7. Japan
Andrews, Sarah S., 1892 - 1961
Bigelow, Gertrude
Christianity in Japan, papers and collections, 1896 - 1947
Condict, Cornulle H.
Dai Kokumin [The Great Nations]
Kagawa, Toyohiko, 1888 - 1960
Series 8. Korea
Appenzeller, Henry Gerhard, 1883 - 1902
Chinese Church of Christ in Korea
Jones, George Heber, 1898 - 1918
Korea Conspiracy Case, 1912 - 13
Korean Independence Outbreak
Korea General Collection
Series 9. Latin America
Congress on Christian Work in Latin America, Panama 1916
Inman, Samuel Guy, 1877 - 1965
MIAU/LAB News Service, 1969-71
Latin American Churches' Response to Social Movements, 1962-1973
Primer Encuentro Latinoamericano de Christianos por el Socialismo, Santiago, 1972
Simonton, Ashbel Green, 1833 - 1867
Latin American Miscellaneous Papers, 1925 - 1956
Series 10. North America
Dunbar, John
Edwards, Martha Letita
Eliot, John, 1604 - 1690
Lindquist, Gustavus Elmer Emanuel, 1886 - ?
Ripley, H.W.
Series 11. Australia and Oceania
Leigh, Samuel, 1785 - 1852
Series 12. Ecumenical/World Mission
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Bureau of Missions, New York
NCCC USA: Division of Foreign Missions
Ecumenical Conference on Foreign Missions, NYC, 1900
Foreign Missions Conference of North America
Goucher, John Franklin, 1845 - 1922
International Missionary Council, 1921 - 1957
Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry
Laymen's Missionary Movement
Leber, Charles Tudor, 1898 - 1959
Methodist Episcopal Church
Missionary biographies, A - Z
Missionary Education Movement
Missionary Personnel
Missionary Research Library Records
Mott, John Raleigh, 1865 - 1955
Netherlands Missionary Society
Personnel policies of Foreign Mission Boards
Preparation of missionaries
Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions
Thayer, Clarence R. 19?? - 1986
Women's Board of Missions, New Haven Branch
World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910
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