Collections : [Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary]

This series contains correspondence pertaining to the financial and ministerial assistance which John Franklin Goucher offered to colleagues in their efforts to establish educational institutions in South and Southeast Asia, including Reid Christian College in Lucknow, India and the Anglo-Chinese College in Singapore. This series also contains a hardcover book entitled "Views in Lucknow," presented to Goucher by the students of Reid Christian College, and containing twenty-five black and white photographs of Lucknow, including views of: the Residency, Chatter Manzil, "Hoosainabad" [Hussainabad], the Great "Emambara" [Imambara], the throne room of the King of Oudli, the Sadab Ali Shah Mausoleum, Reid Christian College and its students and faculty from 1897, Christian College High School, the Women's College, the Hindustani Church, and the Methodist Episcopal Church along with its parsonage and publishing house.

This series contains extracts and newspaper clippings connected with the Catholic Church in India from 1880-1893 in Portuguese, English, and French. These volumes are attributed to the secretary of the Madras Catholic Union, William Reese Philipps. This collection includes portions of the following contemporary publications: Catholic Truth Society – Bombay Branch, India Sacra, O Crente, The Bombay Catholic Examiner, The Bombay East Indian, The Catholic Register, The Catholic Watchman, The Cochin Argus, The Epiphany, The Illustrated Catholic Missions, The Indian Churchman, The Indo-European Correspondence, The Messenger of the Sacred Heart, The Mylapore Catholic Register, The Sind Gazette, The Tablet, and The Weekly Register. Also included are collections of bound issues of the following publications: Les Missions Catholics, O Vinte e tres Novembro, O Portugues Britannico, The Anglo-Lusitano and The Catholic Union. The material covers obituaries of missionaries and clergy, dedications of new churches and schools, budgets for construction, accounts of festivals, ecclesiastical appointments, the Pope's jubilee, congratulations and correspondence with the Queen of England for her jubilee, as well as circulation records and reviews of books.

This series contains a manuscript autobiography that includes correspondence and photographs, and manuscripts of a number of published and unpublished works by Pinkham. Pinkham's "Victorian Echoes: An Autobiography" manuscript includes transcribed diary entries contemporary to the period of her life that she is describing, as well as photographs of Pinkham, her immediate family, family pets, and locations. The earliest identified item in the collection is a photograph of Susan Emeline Thorn dated 1867. The manuscript also contains correspondence between Pinkham and her eventual husband while he was working abroad in Calcutta, India for Standard Oil and a set of letters from Pinkham in India to her parents following her marriage, detailing the day-to-day life of Americans living in colonial India and often touching upon political matters, such as the release of Gandhi in 1924 or the likelihood of home rule. Finally, the manuscript also includes other letters, newspaper clippings, business cards, postcards, cancelled stamps, greeting cards, programs, currency, cablegrams, a Sunday school student's drawing, a receipt for purchase of a car in India, a household budget, and sample scraps of knitting wool.

This series contains the correspondence of Charles Tudor Leber while on tour representing the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church from 1944-1945 and again in 1953. Leber's letters describe the countries, people, and social and economic environments he traversed, and illustrate the nature of travel and the work of missionaries in the mid-20th century. Locations visited include Japan, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Spain, Korea, Indonesia, India, Germany, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Singapore.