Baldwin, Arthur
IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0102 MMS Box 608
Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies Library
Domain: archival
Title: Baldwin, Arthur
Date(s) of contents: 1889-1902
Level of description:
Extent and medium: 1 box
CONTEXT
Name of creator(s): Baldwin | Arthur | 1864-1937 | missionary
Administrative/Biographical history: Born at Otley, Yorkshire, of devout Methodist parents, 1864; educated at Otley Collegiate School; entered the Primitive Methodist ministry, 1887; minister at Barrowford, 1887-1888; Halifax, 1888-1889; sent by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Committee on a pioneering mission to northern Rhodesia, 1889-1902; his time in Africa affected his health and he returned to England, 1902; minister at Halifax, 1902-1903; Brighouse, 1903-1908; Nottingham, 1908-1911; Gainsborough, 1911-1916; Leeds, 1916-1919; Financial Secretary to the Missionary Department, 1919-1924; Kingston, 1924-1925; Secretary of the Chapel Aid Association, 1925-1936; supernumerary, 1936; married firstly Elizabeth Anne (née Smith) and secondly Harriet (née Wright); died, 1937. Publication: The Rev Henry Buckenham, pioneer missionary (Joseph Johnson, London [1920]).
Custodial history: The papers were deposited with the Methodist Missionary Society and form part of the special series of biographical papers of individual missionaries.
Immediate source of acquisition: Deposited on permanent loan with the records of the Methodist Missionary Society from 1978.
CONTENT AND STRUCTURE
Scope and content/abstract: Papers, 1889-1902, of Arthur Baldwin, comprising diaries, 1889-1899, describing his journeys, work and life in Africa, including domestic activities and agricultural concerns; letters from Baldwin to his mother, 1889-1902, recounting his activities; letters from F Coillard to Baldwin, 1893-1895, concerning missionary work and concerns; undated manuscript notes on Coillard; undated map marked 'Proposal for a new mission Moomba'; letter to Mr Baldwin from F Pickering, 1897; letter to Mrs Baldwin from Mrs C Thackeray in New Zealand [1908]; nine photographs of southern Africa, mostly undated landscapes but including one of mission staff, 1899, among them some indigenous workers.
System of arrangement:
ACCESS AND USE
Language: English
Conditions governing access: Unrestricted, but only to be viewed on microfiche. Originals to be consulted only with written agreement from the Methodist Church.
Conditions governing reproduction: No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
Finding aids: Unpublished handlist.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material: The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society (Ref: MMS/PMMS). SOAS also holds Edwin Smith's transcripts of Baldwin's journals (Ref: MMS/WMMS Notes & Transcripts Box 569 No 11).
Copies: Published on microfiche by IDC Publishers (SOAS ref: Fiche Box Number Special Series 12-13).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: Alphabetical Arrangement of Wesleyan Methodist Ministers (1936); Wesleyan Methodist Church Minutes of Conference (1938), p 181; British Library OPAC.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2002
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- Agriculture
- Ancient religions
- Christianity
- Christians
- Clergy
- Diaries
- Evangelistic missionaries
- Evangelistic missionary work
- Indigenous lay workers
- Laity
- Literary forms and genres
- Methodism
- Methodists
- Missionaries
- Missionary work
- Nonfiction
- Ordained missionaries
- Photographs
- Prose
- Protestant nonconformists
- Protestant nonconformity
- Protestantism
- Protestants
- Religions
- Religious activities
- Religious groups
- Religious institutions
- Religious movements
- Travel
- Travel abroad
- Visual materials
- Agriculture
- Personal names
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- Baldwin | Arthur | 1864-1937 | missionary
- Baldwin | family | of Otley, Yorkshire
- Coillard | François | 1834-1904 | French missionary in Africa
- Pickering | F | fl 1897
- Thackeray | C | fl [1908]
- Baldwin | Arthur | 1864-1937 | missionary
- Corporate names
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- Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
- Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
- Places
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- Africa
- Northern Rhodesia
- Southern Africa
- Zambia
- Africa