STH: Special Collections

Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society Archives

From the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Microfiche. Leiden: Inter Documentation Company, Inc.

• Women’s Work Collection
  This series of records relates to the work of women missionaries employed by the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society who were organized and funded independently from the main Society.  The records have been arranged by the form of the material and then sub-divided by the region to which they relate.

Guide to the Microfiche

Please use the following guide book to determine which reels correspond with the titles, regions, and years that you would like to see: 

• Minutes, 1858-1939 (66 fiche)
  • Reports (35 fiche)
    China, 1942
    Africa, 1934-1941
    India, 1923-1947
  • Correspondence (1262 fiche)
    Correspondence from the Chairman to missionaries in the field and from missionaries reporting from their stations on the activities of their daily life and work Europe, 1918-1943
    West Indies, 1928-1945
    West Africa, 1928-1945
    Rhodesia, 1914-1933
    Transvaal, 1922-1938
    Africa, 1928-1945
    India, 1921-1948
    Ceylon, 1918-1948
    China, 1920-1947
  • Missionaries on Furlough, reports, correspondence (44 fiche)
    China, 1925-1930
  • Overseas Schedules: Ceylon, Burma, China, 1922-1945 (112 fiche)
    Financial records and assignments

These items are available in microfiche format, or fiche(flat slides of film) with micro images of the pages on each film.

Microfiche may not leave the library, and need a microfiche reader to use. 

Please contact the Reference Librarians at sthref@bu.edu to request any microfiche and make an appointment to use the microfiche readers. Make sure to include the title of the publication as well as the years/volumes/fiche numbers of the title that you are interested in.