| Description | Personal correspondence addressed to 'Miss Pym' from four CMS women missionaries to China. The correspondence dates from a period when Sybil Pym was an active member of her local CMS Association [in Louth, Lincolnshire]. There are several mentions of her taking part in [CMS] exhibitions in the UK.
The letters demonstrate the importance to the correspondents of the support and friendship of their fellow women workers in China and of support from the UK. Individual items of note are a letter from Annie Settle, dated 27 November 1925, in which she refers to release from captivity and writes enclosing a photograph taken the day she and her fellow captives arrived in 'M[ien]chuh' after being released [photograph not present] and a letter from Frieda Cannell writing from 'Yungchow', 23 October [1925] with comments on the political situation after her return to China to work in Kweilin [Guilin].
[Annie Settle was amongst a group of missionaries who were held captive for three weeks after being kidnapped by brigands; Frieda Cannell (née Schneider), wife of Rev W. R. Cannell, died in a fire in the mission bungalow at Kweilin [Guilin] in 1926.] |
| Administrative History | Sybil Vere M. Pym, known as 'Daisy', was born and lived in Louth, Lincolnshire. She was Treasurer and active member of the Louth: Holy Trinity CMS Association. |