IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0102 CIM/PP 119-157
Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies
Title: Taylor, Frederick Howard
Date(s): [1853], 1907-1940
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 6 boxes
Name of creator(s): Taylor | Frederick Howard | 1862-1946 | medical missionary
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1862; second son of the founder of the China Inland Mission, James Hudson Taylor; MD, London, 1888; member of the Royal College of Physicians, 1889; Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh; initiated the Student Foreign Missionary Union; toured the USA and Canada with his father, 1888; served the China Inland Mission in Henan from 1890; peripatetic medical missionary; married M Geraldine Guinness, 1894; travelled frequently with his father; died, 1946. Publications: Pastor Hsi: One of China's Christians (1905); Hudson Taylor in early years: the growth of a soul (1911); Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission: the Growth of a Work of God (1918); The Triumph of John and Betty Stam (1935); Biography of James Hudson Taylor (1965).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, [1853], 1907-1940, of Frederick Howard Taylor: research notes on Chinese tribes, [1853], 1907-1940, comprising correspondence, articles, notes, maps, and many photographs of China and its inhabitants; typescripts [after 1905, before 1946] on the life of James Hudson Taylor between 1854 and 1905.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English and Chinese
System of arrangement:
The papers are divided between Taylor's notes on tribes (Ref: Boxes 11-12 Files 119-37) and his typescripts (Ref: Boxes 13-16 Files 138-157).
Conditions governing access:
Unrestricted. Readers should order the documents as CIM boxes 11-16 in SOAS Special Collections Reading Room.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Database and unpublished handlist.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
The papers form part of the series of personal and private papers of individual missionaries among the records of the China Inland Mission.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated with the records of the China Inland Mission from 1991.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of the China Inland Mission (Ref: CIM), including various correspondence of Frederick Howard Taylor.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: A J Broomhall, It is not Death to Die! (1989), vol vii of Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, p 677; British Library OPAC.
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