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1911-1959 (Creation)
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65 cm of textual records and other material.
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Edward Kyle Simpson M.D. was a Missionary to West China for the Methodist Church from 1912-1926. While in China he met and married Alice Lessing Estabrook in Chengtu Feb 17, 1916. Dr. Simpson was ordained in London Conference and left for China in 1912. In 1919 he took charge of the hospital at Junghsien for two years, then moved to Fowchow for medical work. Alice L. Estabrook was appointed by the W.M.M to West China in 1910. Alice became first Principal of the Union Normal School until 1916 when she resigned to be married to Dr. E.K. Simpson.
Both E.K. and Alice left China in 1926, they had two children Alice Janet (born 1917) and Wilda Pauline (born 1923).
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Fonds consists of records of Alice Simpson, including diaries, a hymn book, and manuscript stories; a diary of E. K. Simpson; a scroll translation presented to Mr. and Mrs. Simpson upon leaving Fowchow; a cloth map of mission stations in Szechwan; reports from Dr. A. Stewart Allen and Dr. Leslie Killborn; correspondence from Dr. Egerton Shore to E. K. Simpson; three various publications and pamphlet materials; as well as includes photographs.
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Includes 78 glass lantern slides, 18 photographs, 2 posters.
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