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Letter from The American Red Cross to college graduates
Letter from the American Red Cross informing the reader of the establishment of the Red Cross Nurses Training Camp for college graduates at Bryn Mawr.
Letter to Emma Bailey Speer March 27, 1927
Written to her parents in the heat of civil war, shortly after a violent incident that left several foreigners dead. MBS discusses the distortion of newspaper propaganda on anti-foreign sentiment. She shows frustration at the distortion in the papers against the Chinese and the focus on the…
Letter to Emma Bailey Speer, 17 Nov1929
MBS considers options for her future, and whether there will be a place for the foreigner in mission education in China in the new future. She does not doubt that there is a place for her in administration (possibly even as the next Dean of the Women's College, which she feels ambivalent about), but…
Letter to Emma Bailey Speer, 18 April 1926
MBS writes to her mother about going out to dinner with Mr. Murphy, the architect who is doing the new buildings for Yenching. When it is time to to go home for the evening there are rumors about the streets filling with disorderly members of Chang's army so they stay over at a hotel and she returns…
Letter to Emma Bailey Speer, 28 February 1926
MBS writes to her mother with a very detailed account of her first visit to a "traditional" Chinese home as a dinner guest, at the house of Mr. Chi.
Letter to Emma Bailey Speer, 3 Jul 1928
A letter from MBS to her mother, further explicating the tensions around the proposed Boyd gift of $90,000 for a new women's gymnasium and the condition that the schools merge their administrative departments. She also urges her mother, who was on the Yenching College Committee at home, to inform…
Letter to Emma Bailey Speer, 7 February 1926
MBS writes to her mother, giving an update on the YWCA women. She critically considers the status of Chinese servants and their quality of life, which she regards as rather inhumane and wonders if it is really "Christian" to give them so little time off and hold such high expectations for constant…
Letter to Emma Bailey Speer, 8 June 1928
MBS writes to her mother summarizing recent political turmoil. A certain freshman's father was Chief Secretary of Chang Tso-lin, Dictator since June 1927. The faculty could always tell when there was national trouble coming because he would pull her out of school and send her back when things are…
Letter to Margaret Bailey Speer, 17 July 1944
Letter from Katharine McBride, Bryn Mawr College President, to MBS acknowledging and congratulating her on her recent appointment to Headmistress of the Shipley School.
Letter to Robert Elliott Speer and Emma Bailey Speer, 10 December 1933
MBS writes of Cornelia van Asch van Wyck's visit.
