| Description | Family correspondence, dated 2 July 1934-13 July [19]52, written during the Morrisons' final years with the Church Mission Society. Including letters from their last months in Cairo with the CMS Egypt Mission 1933-October 1951 and during Stanley's secondment as Executive Secretary of the Committee for Refugee Work, Beirut, Lebanon, November 1951-July 1952.
The majority of letters are from Stanley writing from Cairo or Beirut to his father [Hugh Morrison] or one or other of his sisters, Kathleen and Nora, back in England. There are also a few letters which Stanley wrote from England, India, America, Italy and Paris, seven letters from Margaret to Kathleen and/or Nora, and a lavishly illustrated letter from 8 year-old Joan Morrison to her grandfather [Hugh Morrison].
Including (incomplete list):
/letter to father from Stanley, 'Alouette', Victoria Street, Birmingham, [England]. 7 August 1937
/letter to father from Stanley, CMS Bombay. 2 December 1938
/letters to Kathleen, to father and to Nora, from Stanley, writing on letterheaded paper of the World Missionary Conference 1938, Tambaram, Chingleput Dist, S. India. 13 December 1938-29 December 1938 (4 items)
/letter to ‘My darling Grandpa’ from Joan M. Morrison, Pyramid House, Zamalek, Cairo: sends thanks for her birthday and Christmas present. 8 February [19]42.
/letter to father from Stanley, Pyramid House, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt: annotated in blue ink 'No. 76' and 11/3/43: he sends a Circular Letter and news of his activities including attending a meeting for A. R. P. wardens [Air Raid Precaution wardens]: 'before long others may be added to our numbers ie people conscripted under the National Service Act.'; the death of Bishop Graham Brown in a motor accident has come as a 'grievious blow'. 27 November [19]42.
/letter to Kathleen from Stanley, Hartford, Connecticut, [USA]: he is attending a Conference of Outgoing Missionaries. 13 June [19]47
/letter to Nora From Stanley whilst attending conferences in Beirut: he arrived in Beirut 26 April; on the Tuesday before the start of the conference delegates divided into groups and visited different refugee camps. 6 May 1951
/letter to Kathleen from Stanley, Pyramid House, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt: ‘I have been asked whether I would consent to act as secretary of the Committee for co-ordinating work among the refugees in the Near East.’ 27 May 1951
/letter to Nora from Stanley, Pyramid House, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt: Robert Mackie of the Refugee Dept of the WCC [World Council of Churches] has written to CMS asking if Stanley can be seconded for two years to the post of Executive Secretary of the Committee on Refugee Work in the Near East. 3 June 1951
/letter to 'Both of you', from Margaret, Pyramid House, Zamalek, Cairo. 8 July [19]51
/letter to Kathleen from Stanley, Pyramid House, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt: has had an official offer from the Inter-Church Aid and Service to Refugees Department of the WCC [World Council of Churches] to take up the post of Executive Secretary of the UMC Committee [United Missionary Council Committee] on Refugees. 24 July 1951
/letter to Kathleen from Stanley, No 10, Finchley Rd, NW8, [England]. 28 July [19]51
/letter to Kathleen from Stanley, Martin Croft, Colwell, [England]. 28 July [19]51
/letter to Kathleen and Nora from Stanley, Hotel ?Genova, Rome. 28 July [19]51
/letter to Kathleen and Nora from Stanley, Pyramid House, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt: he is going to Beirut on 12 October; he will go alone at first [without Margaret] and is to return for a week in Cairo before going back again to Beirut. 3 October 1951
/letter to Kathleen from Margaret, Pyramid House, Zamalek, Cairo. 28 October [19]51
/letter to Kathleen from Margaret, Amman. 16 December [19]51
/letter to Kathleen and Nora from Margaret, 237, Rue Georges Picot, Beirut. 30 December [19]51
/letter to Kathleen from Stanley, Hotel Malakoff, 3 Avenue Raymond Poincare, Paris 16e. 3 January 1952
/letter to Kathleen from Stanley, PO Box 235, Beirut, Lebanon: on Wednesday he was invited to a tea party at the Coptic School for Blind Girls’ at Boulac to meet Miss Helen Keller; he had met Keller in New York in 1947 but enjoyed seeing her and Polly Thompson again; Keller and Thompson are visiting Beirut again this week. 27 April 1952
[Helen Addams Keller, 1880-1968, educator, activist, author. Source: Helen Keller Biography. American Foundation for the Blind. Available online at www.afb.org/about-afb/history/helen-keller/biography-and-chronology/biography (accessed 15 March 2022)]
/letter to Kathleen from Margaret, 237, Rue Georges Picot, Beirut, Lebanon. 20 June [19]52
/letter to Nora from Margaret, POB 2100, Beirut, Lebanon. 16 December [19]52
/letter to Kathleen from Margaret, 237, Rue Georges Picot, Beirut, Lebanon. 17 December [19]52
/letter to father from Stanley, Pyramid House, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt: annotated in blue ink 'No. 75 (Air Mail)' and '11/3/43': sends a copy of the first series of this year's lectures [not present]. Undated [c 1942] [CLOSED]. |