| Description | This collection consists of letters from Christopher Cook while on missionary service overseas to his wife, Emma, and to both of them separately and jointly from other members of their family, personal papers such as birth and other certificates, passports; notes for sermons, luggage lists, water colours by Gracie Davison, family photographs and a collection of postcards. PART OF THIS COLLECTION HAS BEEN RETAINED BY THE CMS AND SO IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION AT THE CADBURY RESEARCH LIBRARY. IT IS CURRENTLY HELD AT THE CROWTHER CENTRE FOR MISSION EDUCATION AT CMS IN OXFORD AND ENQUIRIES ABOUT ACCESS SHOULD BE MADE TO THE CMS ARCHIVIST, KEN OSBORNE (ken.osborne@cms-uk.org; Tel: 01865787553) |
| Administrative History | Christopher Locke Cook (1909-1997) served as a CMS missionary from 1939 to 1974. From 1948 he served in Sudan, in Juba and Loka and from 1965 in Nigeria. In 1951 he married Emma Winifred Davison, a fellow CMS missionary who had served in Nazareth 1938-1939 and subsequently with the Church Mission to the Jews in Jerusalem.
Source: Information provided by CMS Archivist |
| Custodial History | Deposited with the CMS June 1997 |