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Liberty, Eric and Edith


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 CIM/PP 38-92

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: Liberty, Eric and Edith

Date(s): 1887, 1920-1980s

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 4 boxes

Name of creator(s): Liberty | Eric R | d 1971 | missionary
Liberty | Edith | d ? 1978 | missionary

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Rev Eric Liberty and his wife Edith served the China Inland Mission from the 1920s, in China, the Philippines and Taiwan, retiring to England in 1970 following a motorbike accident. Eric Liberty died in 1971 and his wife is thought to have died in 1978. Eric Liberty's publications: Sons of China won to Christ (1943); Chinese Students at the Cross-Roads (1948).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1887, 1920-1980s, of Eric and Edith Liberty, comprising letters received, 1947-1978; papers relating to Eric Liberty's funeral, 1971; notes, 1920-1979 and undated, including Bible and devotional notes, sermons, and autobiographical notes; articles, 1887, 1950-1952 and undated, including The Gospel Magazine; undated book of Chinese characters; three audio tapes, [1967], 1973 and undated, including a church service and sermons; China Inland Mission badge; undated chart comparing religious and agricultural calendars; undated posters and painted cloths, including Christian subjects; papers relating to Edith Liberty and her estate, 1980s; ten photograph albums and over 400 loose photographs, 1923-1973 and undated, the subjects including the Libertys and their family, congregations and churches, and places in Taiwan, the Philippines, China and Singapore.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English and Chinese

System of arrangement:

The papers comprise the following sections: letters; notes and sermons; articles and publications; audio tapes; miscellaneous; photographs.

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted. Readers should order the documents as CIM boxes 5-8 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Database and unpublished handlist.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).

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: Mar 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Autobiographies | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Calendars | Periodicals | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
Evangelistic missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Evangelistic missionary work | Missionary work | Religious activities
Lay missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Magnetic tape recordings | Sound recordings | Recordings
Ordained missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Photographs | Visual materials
Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Religious movements | Religious institutions
Religious practice | Religious activities
Sermons | Religious texts | Religious doctrines | Theology
Travel abroad | Travel
Wives of missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Women missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups

Personal names
Liberty | Edith | d ? 1978 | missionary
Liberty | Eric R | d 1971 | missionary
Liberty | family | missionaries

Corporate names
China Inland Mission

Places
China | East Asia
Philippines | South East Asia
Singapore | South East Asia
Taiwan | East Asia