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Database and unpublished handlist.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