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Clements, Marjorie


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 CWM/LMS China Personal Box 13

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: Clements, Marjorie

Date(s): 1930-1933

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Clements | Marjorie Grace | 1904-1964 | missionary

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in New Cross, London, 1904; member of a Congregationalist chapel in Purley, Surrey; trained at Carey Hall, Birmingham; appointed London Missionary Society (LMS) missionary, dedicated at Purley, and sailed to north China, 1930; visited England, 1935; resigned for health reasons, 1936; worked in the Overseas Department of the LMS at Livingstone House, 1959-1963; died, 1964.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters, 1930-1933, of Marjorie Clements from northern China, largely to Mrs J May, including observations on her missionary work and on Chinese life.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Unpublished handlist.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

The papers were deposited with the London Missionary Society and form part of the special series of personal papers of individual LMS missionaries and officers.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited on permanent loan with the records of the London Missionary Society by the Congregational Council for World Mission (later Council for World Mission) in 1973.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Published on microfiche by IDC Publishers.

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of the London Missionary Society (Ref: CWM/LMS), including letters from individual missionaries, among them Marjorie Clements (Ref: CWM/LMS North China Incoming Correspondence); her candidate's papers (Ref: CWM/LMS Candidates' Papers 2nd Series 1900-1950 Box 8 No 1); and a photograph including Marjorie Clements in China (Ref: CWM/LMS China Photographs Box 13 File 87).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Source: LMS Register of Missionaries, ed James Sibree.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Asian cultures | National cultures
Congregationalism | Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Congregationalists | Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Evangelistic missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Evangelistic missionary work | Missionary work | Religious activities
Lay missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Religious movements | Religious institutions
Women missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Nonconformity

Personal names
Clements | Marjorie Grace | 1904-1964 | missionary
May | J | fl 1930-1933 | female correspondent of Marjorie Clements

Corporate names
Missionary Society x LMS | London Missionary Society x London Missionary Society

Places
China | East Asia