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[Identification of item], Hall Family Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
The Hall Family Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 1969-1971.
Processed by Rubenstein Library Staff, date unknown
Encoded by Meghan Lyon, September 2011
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The Hall family was originally from Wilmington (New Hanover County), N.C.
Collection contains correspondence between Maggie T. (Sprunt) Hall and her daughters, Jessica Dalziel Hall and Susan Eliza Hall, dealing with family matters, Wellesley College, and women's work in the Presbyterian Church, particularly the Women's Foreign Missionary Society. Also copies of letters from Presbyterian missionaries in various parts of the world, 1949-1965, sent to Jessica D. Hall, Susan E. Hall, and Jane Hall by the Missionary Correspondence Department of the Board of World Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, including letters from Ecuador, Brazil' Mexico, Korea, Japan, Africa, China, and Formosa. Miscellaneous items in the collection include greetings and reports from missionaries, a picture of Madame and General Chiang Kai-shek, and a student handbook of Wellesley College, 1901.
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