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G.E.S. Ayer collection. [textual record]

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Collection

Date:

n.d., 1812

Reference:

R11439-0-8-E, MG54-No90

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103540

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G.E.S. Ayer collection.
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Date(s):

n.d., 1812

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

0.5cm (22 p). of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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The collection consists of 10 items relating to missionary activity: a letter of Adoniram Judson to Joseph Emerson, with a note from Nancy Judson to her sister, Mrs. J. Emerson, concerning their conversion from Congregationalists to Baptists, 1812, 4 pages; a translation of the letter from Koh-Yih-Djun to the missionary W.D. Rudland, 1879, 2 pages with two documents in Chinese, ca. 1877, 4 pages; letter of W.D. Rudland to Mr. Claxton providing more detail about his missionary activity in China, 1879, 8 pages; two documents in Chinese, n.d., 3 pages; one document and a fragment of a document, apparently in Burmese, n.d., 2 pages; printed wrapper advertising Quinine Wine, n.d., 1 page.

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Ayer (Family)

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General note:

The second of the two documents in Chinese Ca. 1877, which accompany the translation of the letter from Koh-Yih-Djun, is missing the lower quarter of the pages.
Received in 1979 from the Ayer family, notably Mrs. H.H. Ayer of St. Hilaire sur Richelieu, Quebec , through Mr. George E.S. Ayer of Woodlawn, Ontario.
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Adoniram Judson - Correspondence, 1812

Joseph Emerson - Correspondence, 1812

Nancy Judson - Correspondence, 1812

Converts, Baptist, 1812

Congregationalists, 1812

Koh-Yih-Djun - Correspondence, 1879

Chinese letters - Translations into English, 1879

W.D. Rutland - Corresppondence, 1879

Missionaries - China - Correspendence, 1879

Mr. Claxton - Correspondence, 1879

Burmese, [n.d.]

Advertising - Wine, [n.d.]

Missionaries - China, 1879
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Private

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MG54-No90
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