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Pollard, Samuel (Kendall papers)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 380690

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: Pollard, Samuel (Kendall papers)

Date(s): Created 1888-1970

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Pollard | Samuel | 1864-1915 | missionary

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Samuel Pollard was born in Camelford on 20 April 1864, the son of Samuel Pollard snr., a preacher with the Bible Christian Church. Samuel Pollard jnr. also entered the Ministry of the Bible Christian Church. In 1907 the Bible Christian Church united with other sections of Methodism to form the United Methodist Church. Samuel Pollard went to China in 1886. He attended the Ganking Language School in 1887. In 1888 he was posted to Yunnan. From 1905 he worked in Miao Country amongst the Miao people. His work there was evangelical, but he was also responsible for developing a unique phonetic script to translate the New Testament into the Miao language (Hua Miao). He died of typhoid fever in Miao Country on 16 September 1915. Further reading: R Elliott Kendall, Eyes of the Earth: the Diary of Samuel Pollard (1954); W A Grist, Samuel Pollard: Pioneer Missionary in China (Taipei, 1971).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence and papers, 1888-1970, of and relating to Samuel Pollard, used by R Elliott Kendall for his work on Pollard, and comprising 12 letters from Pollard, 1888-1915, during his time in China, 11 of them to H W Horwill; four letters concerning Pollard, 1915-1916, 1970; three articles by Pollard on China, c1911-c1913; notes by H W Horwill on Pollard, undated; 50 press cuttings, 1908-1915, including some by Pollard in religious publications; 21 press cuttings, 1915-1921, mainly obituaries and reviews of Pollard's publications.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The material has been arranged in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Unpublished handlist.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated in 1998.

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 United Methodist Missionary Society (Ref: MMS/UMMS), including papers of Samuel Pollard (Ref: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/China/FBN 29-30); papers of the Parsons family, missionaries who worked among the Miao tribe using the script devised by Pollard (Ref: MS 380686); research papers of Frederick Howard Taylor on the tribes of south-west China, including notes on the life of Samuel Pollard (Ref: CIM Box 11 File 124).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Date(s) of descriptions: 15 May 2000, revised Feb 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Asian cultures | National cultures
Book reviews | Literary criticism | Literature
Clergy | Religious groups
Evangelistic missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Methodism | Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Methodists | Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Missionary work | Religious activities
Ordained missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Press cuttings | Newspaper press | Press
Religious movements | Religious institutions
Tribes | Ethnic groups
Nonconformists
Nonconformity

Personal names
Horwill | Herbert William | 1864-1952 | missionary
Kendall | R Elliott | 1915-1992 | Methodist missionary China and Kenya
Pollard | Samuel | 1864-1915 | missionary

Corporate names
Bible Christians
United Methodist Church

Places
China | East Asia