Register of the Charles Luther Boynton Papers, 1901-1967
Register of the Charles Luther Boynton Papers, 1901-1967
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| 1881, June 8 | Born, Townshend, Vermont |
| 1901 | Graduated, Pomona College |
| 1901-1903 | Assistant Secretary, State Committee YMCAs of Kansas |
| 1903-1906 | Business Secretary, Student Department, International Committee YMCA, New York |
| 1906-1914 | Business Secretary, National Committee YMCAs of China |
| 1907 | Attended Centenary Conference, New York |
| 1908, June 8 | Married Leila Dozier |
| 1909-1920 | Member, original Board of Managers of the Shanghai American School, which he founded |
| 1914-1915 | Foreign Missions Conference of North America |
| Editor, The Missions Code | |
| 1915-1920 | Business and Statistical Secretary of China Continuation Committee |
| 1915-1923 | Served with U.S. Army, Shanghai Volunteer Corps |
| 1920-1922 | Business Manager, Shanghai American School; Executive Secretary, 1922-1923; Acting Principal, 1923-1924; Principal, 1924-1926 |
| 1927-1947 | Business Secretary of National Christian Council of China; Acting General Secretary, 1941; Honorary Secretary, 1947-1950 |
| Compiled the handbook The Christian Movement in China | |
| 1943-1945 | Interned at Chapei Civil Assembly Center during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai |
| 1946 | Returned to the United States |
Container List
BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1905-1967.
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous
Biographical data
Clippings
Correspondence with the University of Oregon, Eugene
National Christian Council of China - Resolution on the Services of Charles Luther Boynton (hereafter CLB)
Notes and indexes of Boynton Papers
Receipts
CORRESPONDENCE FILE, 1901-1967.
Scope and Content Note
General correspondence
Miscellaneous and unidentified
Boynton, Edmund C. See also SUBJECT FILE, Post World War II
Boynton, Leila Dozier. See also CHAPEI CIVIL ASSEMBLY CENTER
Bramble, Joan and Ronald
Davis, Lowry and Mary B.
Fahs, Charles H.
Farrior, Stacy and Kitty
Fickett, Nellie
Field, Gertrude
First Federal Savings Alhambra, A.G. Kruse
Fisher, A.J. and Dorothy
Fitch, Mr. and Mrs. George A.
Fosdick, Harry Emerson
Fox, George A.
Fridell, Elmer A.
Fulcher, Helen McCracken
Hening, S.E.
Ho, T.K. (Deputy Mayor of Shanghai)
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Philip T. McLean
Kerr, Willis
Magill, Orrin R., Jr.
Marriage License Bureau, Los Angeles, Ella Moody
Patch, George E. and Julia
Rawbinson, John L.
Renwick, William G.
Turner, Eugene A.
U.S. State Department
Westbrook, Louise and Hart
Dear friends open letters
1909
1929-1957
Original copies
Printed copies
Personal and family correspondence
Kansas
August 1901-January 1903. Transcribed letters to his mother
July 1902-June 1903. Original letters to his mother, father and brother
New York
July 1903-July 1904
June 1904-July 1905
August 1905-October 1906
Early years in China, 1906-1909
Transcripts of postcards, 1903-1953
SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1901-1963.
Scope and Content Note
American Missions in China, n.d. Two carbon copies of an essay on the nineteenth century movement
Appeal to the Community Church of Shanghai, 16 June 1940. Typescript of an address requesting aid for the Hopei and Shantung Provinces
Attempting the Impossible, 9 August 1936. Typescript and carbon fragments of a speech
Autobiographical writings. See also Shanghai American School, The Growth of an Idea
General. Carbon typescript of notes and portions of an autobiographical article
How War Came to Shanghai, August 1937. Transcribed letter to E.C. Lobenstine
Kansas travel diary, 1901-1903. Typewritten transcript of the original
Notes on Life in the Chapei Civil Assembly Center, 1943-1945. Carbon typescript, copied from original books
Peace, Peace, When there is No Peace, 29 May 1963. Typescript concerning Shanghai after 1941.
Shanghai American School History, n.d. Typescript and carbon copy
Since Pearl Harbor, n.d. Typescript and carbon copy of a description of life and work at Chapei
Thirty-Nine Years (1906-1946). Typescript of a description of life and work in China
This, I Believe, 7 May 1906. Carbon copies of CLB's statement of faith upon ordination, prefaced with an autobiographical sketch. See also Statement of Faith for original text
Broadcast of the American Red Cross, May 1938. Typescript of a speech written for Norman Davis, President of the American Red Cross
Chapei Civil Assembly Speeches, 19 October 1944 - 15 April 1945. Handwritten church services and sermons
Is the Church in China Declining? December 1932. Printed copy of an article published in The Chinese Recorder
Lea, General Homer, ca. 1951. Typescript of CLB's memorandum of his contacts with Lea
The Life Eternal, 13 March 1938. Printed copy of a sermon delivered at the Community Church of Shanghai
Memorial Day Address at Bubbling Well Cemetary, 1924. Typescript of an address to the Shanghai American Community, the Shanghai American School, and the American Company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps
Nominating Speech for H.F. Kay, Spring 1945. Typescript of a speech recommending Kay as American representative of the Chapei Civil Assembly Center
Notes for addresses, sermons, etc, 1906-1941. Typescripts
Our Christianity and our Staff, ca. 1930. Typescript carbon copy of an essay considering the role the National Christian Council
Protest of Ransomed Americans, May 1923. Typescript carbon copy transcribed from the China Press, of a speech written for Anne Alter Fearm at the Shaghai Town Hall
The Purpose of Life, 24 August 1934. Two typescript carbon copies of CLB's meditation
The Rise and Development of Protestant Missions in China, 4 October 1939. Typescript carbon copy
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 15 April 1945. See Chapei Civil Assembly Speeches
Sermons. Miscellaneous sermons and fragments. Typescripts and carbon copies
Shanghai American School. See also Autobiographical writings, Shanghai American School History
A Brief Chronology, June 1936. Two typescript carbon copies
Commencement Address, Shanghai American School, 1925. Typescript
The Growth of an Idea, n.d. Typescript carbon copy
Notes for the History and Reunion Proposal, n.d. Typescripts
Statement of Faith, 7 May 1906. Original typescript and carbon copy of the address given under examination for ordination. See also Autobiographical writings, This I Believe for explanatory notes
Trained, Tried, True, 23 June 1924. Original typescript and two carbon copies of a commencement address delivered at South China College
Union Church Sermons, 1918, 1922, and 1939. Handwritten and typescript notes for sermons
The Use of Subsidies, 17 February 1933. Original typescript and two carbon copies of a personal memorandum
We are the Pilgrims of Hope, 22 November 1945. Original typescript and carbon copy of a Thanksgiving Day address delivered at the Community Church of Shanghai
What is the Present Status of the Protestant Enterprise in China? ca. 1937. Typescript carbon copy
What is Truth? ca. 1930. Original typescript and carbon copy of his personal meditation
YMCA Annual Reports 1908-1910. Two original typescripts and a carbon copy of the 1910 report
SUBJECT FILE, 1901-1966.
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous
American Association of China, Shanghai
Boynton, Leila Dozier - Correspondence
Cemetary lists
Beijing
Shanghai
Tientsin
Chinese-American Institute of Cultural Relations, Shanghai
Community Church of Shanghai
General
Announcements
Annual reports and financial statements
Governing Board
Membership, 1938
Minutes
Parish bulletin
Parish scope
Women's Auxiliary
Consuls in China, 1845-1935
Cross, Laura - Poetry
Education
Evacuation of China, 1948
Floods
Hallock, Henry Galloway C.
Hensley, Reverend and Mrs. C. Marvin
Koreans in Shanghai
Maps. Correspondence regarding the collecting of, Mattox, Dr. E.L.
Miao, Chester S. See also Post World War II, Correspondence, American Consulate
Minute Man, 1922
Missionaries in China, ca. 1910
Charts, diagrams
Correspondence
The Future of Christian Missions in China. Memorandum of informal discussions by a group of missionaries
Lists. See also NOTEBOOKS
Miscellaneous
General
Americans in Shanghai, 19 December 1945
Chapei Civil Assembly Center
Gibbon's Catalogue's Monthly Supplement, 1905-1903
Revisions
Moslems in China, N.E.Z. Pickens
National Christian Council of China, Shanghai
North China American, 1935
Post World War II
Correspondence
Miscellaneous and fragments
American Consulate
Boynton, Edmund
Cross, Rowland M.
Decker, Dr. J.W.
Fairlield, Wynn G.
McKenna, James (re: repatriation)
Sakamoto, James G. (re: repatriation)
Wegener, R. (re: repatriation)
Shanghai - Celebrations, invitations
U.S. Forces, Shanghai, 1946 - Telephone directory
Religious pamphlets
Robertson, Clarence H. Robbie
Shanghai Municipal Orchestra
Thanksgiving Services, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai
United Board of Christian Colleges, New York
General
Annual reports
New Horizons
United Church Board for World Missions Newsletter
Wheaton Alumni Quarterly, Summer 1964
Women's Groups, Shanghai
YMCA. See also SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, YMCA Annual Reports
CHAPEI CIVIL ASSEMBLY CENTER, 1943-1945.
Scope and Content Note
Assembly Times, 1943-1945
Bulletin, American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society
Correspondence
Miscellaneous
Boynton, Edmund C.
Damsgaard, Alexis and Dorothy
Dozier, Mary Boynton (Mrs. Barton)
Morgan, Edith
Wechsler, Rudolf
Woodward, Peggy Anddibark
Examinations held by the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, 1944 and 1945
Minute book of Protestant Church (transcribed)
Notes
Service prayers during internment
Transcripts of small notebooks. See NOTEBOOKS for original copies
SHANGHAI AMERICAN SCHOOL, 1912-1963.
Scope and Content Note
Alumni
Construction
Correspondence
Curriculum
Enrollment lists. See also CORRESPONDENCE, Westbrook, Louise and Hart; NOTEBOOKS
General
Prior to CLB's administration
1912-1941
Financial records
History - Correspondence
General
Anderson, Colena
Bartlett, Willard W.
Merwin, Wallace
Minutes
Notes
Origins and dedication
Post war reopening
Prospecti and other printed matter
Reunion, Class of 1936
Shanghai American, 1935-1937
Status reports
NOTEBOOKS AND OVERSIZE MATERIAL, 1910-1945.
Scope and Content Note
20 notebooks compiled by CLB and three oversize folders
PHOTOGRAPHS.
30 prints depicting Charles Luther Boynton and his wife, mostly in Shanghai, China, with friends and colleagues of the National Christian Council of China, the China Continuation Committee, the Chinese YMCA, the Shanghai American School, the China Amsterdam Youth Conference Delegation, the American Women's Club, the Phi Beta Kappa Officers' Association, the H.S.S. Galveston sailors, and the U.S. Army. Includes one print of Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, as well as many other Chinese acquaintances, 1916-1941
13 prints depicting Peking, 1920; Shanghai, 1939-1940; Kuling, 1909; and 3 negatives of a refugee camp after a typhoon, 6 July 1939
INCREMENTAL MATERIALS
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