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Tippet, Charlotte


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0103 CIM/PP 27

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: Tippet, Charlotte

Date(s): 1938

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Tippet | Charlotte F | fl 1902-1938 | missionary

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Trained and worked as a nurse; served as a missionary with the China Inland Mission from 1902; undertook medical, educational, and evangelistic work. Publications: The Clock Man's Mother, and other stories (London, 1930); The Tin Traveller (London, 1931). Her name is often found spelt Tippett.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript memoir by Charlotte F Tippet, 'Diversities of Operations', 1938, written at Chefoo, including her childhood and religious development and beliefs, nursing career, and missionary work and life in China (1902-1938), including medical, educational and evangelistic work.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted. Readers should order the documents as CIM box 3 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:

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 a photograph of Miss Tippet among a group of new missionaries of 1902 (Ref: CIM/PHOTO 2/301).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Source: 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: Aug 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Christians | Religious groups
Educational missionary work | Missionary work | Religious activities
Evangelistic missionary work | Missionary work | Religious activities
Lay missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Medical missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Medical missionary work | Missionary work | Religious activities
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
Paramedical personnel | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Religious belief | Theology
Religious experience | Religion
Surgery | Medical sciences
Travel abroad | Travel
Women missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Womens missionary work | Missionary work | Religious activities
Personnel
Primary documents

Personal names
Tippet | Charlotte F | fl 1902-1938 | missionary x Tippett | Charlotte

Corporate names
China Inland Mission

Places
Yantai | Beijing Shi | China | East Asia
Chefoo x Yantai