Church Missionary Society Archive.

GUIDE: Church Missionary Society Archive: A list and guide. B-43202 Section 1, pt. 1-3; B-46535 Section 1, pt. 4-9; B-46957 Section 1, pt. 10-14; B-46399 Section 2, pt. 1-5; B-46426 Section 3, pt. 1-5 (copy 1 and 2); B-46577 Section 5, pt. 1. See also publisher’s introduction and section guides. In addition to the missionary records from Africa, CRL has acquired record sets of the Church Missionary Society archives for other regions of the world. Records currently held include:

Section I. East Asia missions

  • Part 1: Japan, 1869–1949 (including Loochoo Naval Mission, 1843–61)
  • Part 2-3: Japan, 1869–1949
  • Part 4-9: Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, 1880–1957
  • Part 10: China Mission, 1834–1914
  • Part 11: South China Mission, 1885–1934
  • Part 12: South China Mission, 1888–1934
  • Part 13: Chekiang Mission, 1885–1934
  • Part 14: Chekiang Mission, 1888–1934
  • Part 15: Western China Mission, 1897–1934
  • Part 16: Western China Mission, 1898–1934, and Fukien Mission, 1900–34
  • Part 17: Fukien Mission, 1911–34
  • Part 18: Fukien Mission, 1900-1934, Kwangsi-Hunan Mission, 1911-1934, China General, 1935-1951 and South China, 1935-1951
  • Part 19: South China Mission, 1935-1951, Fukien Mission, 1935-1951 and Kwangsi-Hunan Mission, 1935-1951
  • Part 20: East Asia General, 1935-1949 and Annual Letters for Japan, China and Canada, 1917-1949
  • Part 21: Periodicals for South, Central and West China, 1899-1970, and Japan, 1905-1941, including Papers of Fukien Conferences, 1906-1937
  • Part 22: Asia General, 1950-1959, East Asia, 1950-1959, China Mission, 1950-1959 and Japan Mission, 1950-1959

Section II. Missions to women

  • Part 1: Society for Promoting Female Education (FES) in China, India, and the East, 1834–99
  • Part 3: Homes of the East, 1910–48 (including Torchbearer from 1914); Daybreak, 1889, 1893–94, and 1906–09; and The Indian Female Evangelist, 1872–80
  • Part 4: The Indian Female Evangelist and successors, 1881–1956 (covering The Indian Female Evangelist, 1881–93; The Zenana: Woman's Work in India, 1893–1935; The Zenana: Women's Work in India and Pakistan, 1936–56) from Interserve, London
  • Part 5: Minutes of the Zenana, Medical, and Bible Mission, 1865–1937, and the Annual Reports of the Indian Female Normal School and Instruction Society, 1863–79, from Interserve, London

Section III. Central records

  • Part 1: Annotated Register of CMS Missionaries, History of the CMS by Eugene Stock, and the Catalogues to the Overseas Archive, CEZMS and FES Archives
  • Part 2: CMS Gleaner, 1841–1921 (also CMS Gleaner Pictorial Album, 1888 and CMS Missionary Atlas, 1879)
  • Part 3: CMS Outlook, 1922–72 (a continuation from CMS Gleaner)
  • Part 4: Annual Letters, 1886–1912
  • Part 5: CMS Medical Journals: Mercy and Truth, 1897–1921; The Mission Hospital, 1922–39; The Way of Healing, 1940; The Medical Mission Quarterly, 1892–96; and Preaching and Healing, 1900–06
  • Part 6: CMS Circular Books & Letters, 1799–1921
  • Part 7: CMS Minutes, 1799–1837
  • Part 8: CMS Minutes, 1837–1853
  • Part 9: CMS Minutes, 1854–76 and Indexes to Minutes, 1799–1878
  • Part 10: The Missionary Papers, 1816-1884, CMS Monthly Paper, 1828-1829, A Quarterly Token for Juvenile Subscribers, 1856-1878 and 1888-1917, The Home Gazette, 1905-1906 and The CMS Gazette, 1907-1934
  • Part 11: General Review of Missions, 1919, Annual Reports, 1922-1944 and CMS Historical Record, 1944-1986
  • Part 12: The CMS juvenile instructor, 1842-1890, Children's world, 1891-1900, The round world, 1901-1958

  • Part 13: CMS collection of lives of missionaries held at the Church Mission Society Library 

  • Part 14: CMS collection of lives of missionaries held at the Church Mission Society Library 

  • Part 15: The Church Missionary Society record, 1830-1875 held at the Church Mission Society Library

  • Part 16: CMS awake!--a missionary magazine for general readers, 1891-1921, continued as Eastward Ho!, 1922-1940 

  • Part 17: CMS minutes, 1876-1898, and indexes to minutes, 1875-1907  

  • Part 18: CMS Minutes, 1898-1949

  • Part 19: Papers of Henry Venn (secretary of CMS, 1841-1873) and family

  • Part 20: Papers of Henry Venn (secretary of CMS, 1846-1873) and family

  • Part 21: Diaries of Dr Max Warren (General Secretary of CMS, 1942-1963) and Family

  • Part 22. Pamphlets

Section IV. Africa Missions

  • Part 1-12: See CAMP collection: Church Missionary Society. Records [1803-1914] and related Guide, which provides cross-indexing to the Adam Matthew reel numbers.
  • Part 14: Egypt Mission, 1889-1934
  • Part 15: Egypt Mission, 1889-1949
  • Part 16: South Africa Mission, 1836-1843, Kenya Mission, 1841-1888 and Nyanza Mission, 1876-1882
  • Part 17: Kenya Mission, 1880-1934
  • Part 18: Kenya Mission, 1880-1934
  • Part 19: Taganyika Mission, 1900-1934, Nyanza Mission, 1880-1886 and Rwanda Mission, 1933-1934
  • Part 20: Uganda Mission, 1898-1934
  • Part 21: Kenya Mission, 1935-1949
  • Part 22: Uganda Mission, 1898-1934
  • Part 23: Uganda Tanganyika and Rwanda Missions, 1935-1949

Section V. Americas

  • Part 1: West Indies, 1819–61
  • Part 2: North West Canada, 1821–80
  • Part 3: North West Canada, 1881–1930
  • Part 4: British Columbia, 1856-1925

Section VI. Missions to India

  • Part 1: India General, 1811-1815 and North India Mission, 1815-1881
  • Part 2: North India Mission, 1844-1886
  • Part 3: India General, 1811-1815 and South India Mission, 1815-1884
  • Part 4: South India Mission, 1834-1880
  • Part 5: South India Mission, 1834-1880
  • Part 6: North India Mission, 1817-1880
  • Part 7: Madras Mission and Bombay Mission, 1935-1959
  • Part 8: India General and Bengal Mission, 1935-1959
  • Part 9: Punjab and Sindh Mission, 1935-1959

Section VII. General Secretary's papers

  • Part 1: Papers relating to Africa, 1847-1950
  • Part 2: Papers relating to Africa, 1873-1949

Section IX. Middle East Missions

  • Part 1: Palestine, 1935-1959, and Middle East General, 1935-1959
  • Part 2: Palestine 1880-1934
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