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| Creator: | White, Laura Mardsen |
| Title: | Laura Marsden White Papers |
| Date Span: | 1891-1934 |
| Abstract: | Laura Marsden White was a missionary to China for about 43 years of her life. This collection contains two letters from White, both with no date, seven books in Chinese, and one book in Arabic. Six of the books are bound with wooden covers with continuous folding pages. There is also a handwritten piece entitled "Translation of a Chinese Love Letter." |
| Extent: | 0.45 cubic feet |
| Identification: | gcah.ms.3537 |
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1867, Laura Marsden White was a missionary to China for about 43 years of her life. Her work there included teaching, translating, writing, editing a magazine, and organizing schools.
Before her work as a missionary, White taught in public schools in Philadelphia for five years, then attended Wellesley and Chicago Training School, graduating in 1890 with a B.H.
She sailed for China in 1891 under the auspices of the Philadelphia branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and taught school in Chinkiang. Then in 1907 she moved to Nanking, where she was given the task of turning the school there into a college. In 1912, the first building for the junior college in Nanking was dedicated. In 1915, this school merged with several different denominational mission institutions to become Ginling College.
White was chosen in 1912 by the Christian Literature Society in China to edit The Woman's Messenger, one of the first missionary literary projects developed for women. In 1915, she moved to Shanghai to work full-time with the Christian Literature Society. White retired from mission work in 1934, and died in 1937.
This accession contains two brief letters from White, seven books in Chinese, and one in Arabic. Six of the books are bound with wooden covers with continuous folding pages. There is also a handwritten piece in English entitled "Translation of a Chinese Love Letter."
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| Call Number | Folder Title | Date(s) |
| 1551-4-7: 01 | Letters from White | Undated |
| 1551-4-7: 02 | "Translation of Chinese Love Letter" | Undated |
| 1551-4-7: 03 | Chinese Book | Undated |
| 1551-4-7: 04 | Chinese Book | Undated |
| 1551-4-7: 05 | Chinese Book | Undated |
| 1551-4-7: 06 | Chinese Book | Undated |
| 1551-4-7: 07 | Chinese Book | Undated |
| 1551-4-7: 08 | Chinese Book | Undated |
| 1551-4-7: 09 | Chinese Book | Undated |
| 1551-4-7: 10 | Arabic Book | Undated |
