| Description | Scrapbook of letters, reports, and press cuttings relating to Helen Balkwill Harris and James Rendel Harris's travel and relief work in Armenia in 1896:
/1-/3 Reports of the Central Turkish College, Aintab, written by Dr AG Fuller [President, Central Turkey College], 1896
/4 Copy of a letter from Corinna Shattuck [American missionary, Oorfa] to Miss Milligan, 1896
/5 Letter from E Shattuck [American missionary, Oorfa], describing the massacre in Oorfa, nd
/6 Copy of a letter from Corinna Shattuck to Miss Milligan, 1896
/7 Copy of a description by Corinna Shattuck of the massacre at Biridjik, nd
/8 Copy of a letter from Corinna Shattuck describing the massacre at Oorfa, 1896
/9 Copy of a letter from Dr AG Fuller describing the massacre, and condemning Lord Salisbury's speech about Armenia, 1896
/10-/14 Copy letters from Corinna Shattuck and other missionaries describing relief work in Armenia, 1896
/15 Copy of a document describing massacres in Arabker, entitled 'Extracts from a Native letter from Arabker to relatives in Smyrna', nd
/16 'An Authentic Appeal from Armenians' - document, unknown author, describing conditions in Armenia, and calling for international help, 1896
/17 Report entitled 'News Notes No 3', written from Aintab, 1896
/18 Document by an Armenian author entitled 'Armenia's Farewell'. Includes copies of letters to the Sultan, the European Powers, and the Christians of America predicting that the Armenian people will be completely destroyed, 1896
/19 Carbon copy of manuscript notes made by HBH of eyewitness accounts of massacres in Armenia, 1896
/20 Copy of a description of conditions in Armenia by Dr AG Fuller, nd
/21 Document, author unknown, entitled 'What is to become of the Armenians? A Proposal', nd
/22 Letter from James Rendel Harris to 'Dear Man', written from Ourfa, 1896
/23 Letter to HBH from Dr AG Fuller, 1896
/24-/25 Carbon copy of 'News notes' written from Aintab, 1896
/26 Letter of thanks written to James Rendel Harris from an unknown correspondent, possibly Arabic, with English translation, 1896
/27 Newsletter of the Friends' Armenian Relief Fund, including descriptions by James Rendel Harris and HBH of their relief work, 1896
/28 20th Annual Report of the Central Turkey College, 1896
/29 Carbon copy report entitled 'Colonization of the Armenians', suggesting that an Armenian colony be set up in Canada or North America, nd
/30 Press cutting entitled 'Destitution in Armenia', nd
/31 Report entitled 'News Notes No 17' from Aintab, 1896
/32-/33 Letters to James Rendel Harris and HBH from Corinna Shattuck, 1896
/34 Letter to James Rendel Harris from the Secretary of a kindergarten committee in Oorfa thanking him for giving money to the school, probably Arabic, with English translation, 1896
/35 Letter to James Rendel Harris from C Hallward [British Vice-Consulate], 1896
/36 Letter to James Rendel Harris from H Braithwaite, 1896
/37 Letter to James Rendel Harris from JGM re raising money to send to James Rendel Harris and HBH in Armenia, 1896
/38 Part of a letter probably from Francis William Crossley to an unknown correspondent, offering to give 'any money you want for any purpose', nd
/39 Letter to Helen Harris from Francis William Crossley, 1896
/40 Letter to HBH from Emily Crossley, 1896
/41-/42 Letters to HBH from AG Fuller, 1896
/43 Letter to HBH from Corinna Shattuck, 1896
/44-/46 Carbon copy reports entitled 'News Notes' Nos 19, 22, and 23, written from Aintab, 1896
/47 Newsletter of the Friends Armenian Relief Fund, 1896
/48 Letters to HBH from Amelia G Fuller, 1896
/49 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Judson Smith [American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions], 1896
/50 Typed copy of letter from George C Raynolds [American missionary in Van, American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief] to Dr HN Barnum [American missionary in Harpoot]; on back of document typed copy of letter to HBH from George C Raynolds, 1896
/51 Letter to Isabella Leonard [Manchester] from George C Raynolds, 1896
/52 Letter to James Rendel Harris from William Hayes Ward [The Independent, New York], 1896
/53 Report by HBH describing conditions in Armenia, 1896
/54 Carbon copy circular letter from HN Barnum, written from Harpoot, 1896
/55 Letter to James Rendel Harris from HN Barnum, 1896
/56 Letter to HBH from JM ?Kimball, 1896
/57 Letter from HBH to Dr Fox, nd
/58 Translation of a letter to Miss Bush from BN Khachadoorian [Arabker Protestant Preacher], 1896
/59 Letter [to James Rendel Harris?] from EW Brooks, 1896
/60 Carbon copy letter written from Mardin, 1896
/61 Cutting - picture of 4 Kurdish men, nd
/62 Note by James Rendel Harris describing Kurdish beliefs relating to bread, which are probably a Eucharistic survival, nd
/63-/64 Letters to James Rendel Harris from Johannes Lepsius [founded Deutsche Orient Mission, campaigner for Armenia], one German, 1896
/65 Letter to James Rendel Harris from W ?Chambers, 1896
/66 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Leop. Fav?, offering to sell Armenian embroidery in Paris, French, 1896
/67 Notes describing persecution of Armenian Christians, 1896?
/68 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Percy William Bunting, 1896
/69 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Willis W Mead [missionary in Adana], 1896
/70 Letter to James Rendel Harris from AN Andrus [American missionary, head of the Relief Committee, Mardin], relating to manuscript collecting and reporting cases of persecution of Christians, 1896
/71 Translation, made by AN Andrus of a list (which he believes is a fraud) of the 'terms of agreement for the future states and government of the six vilayets included within the cognomen Armenia', nd
/72 Letter to HBH from Corinna Shattuck, 1896
/73 Letter to James Rendel Harris from George C Raynolds, 1896
/74 Letter to Dr Cole [Missionary at Bitlis], from George C Raynolds, 1896
/75 Cutting from The Friend reporting on James Rendel Harris and HBH's travel and relief work in Armenia, 1896
/76 Letter to James Rendel Harris from WE Gladstone, later used as the Preface to James Rendel Harris's book 'Letters from Armenia', 1897
/77 Copies of circular letters from HN Barnum, ME Barnum, CE Bush, George C Raynolds, AF, CH Williams, describing conditions in Armenia, 1896
/78 Cutting, German, 1896
/79 Circular letter from CF Gates [Friends Armenian Relief Fund], describing relief work in Kharpoot district, 1896
/80 Document in Arabic, nd
/81 Carbon copy 'The Case of the Mardin Pastor' describing the arrest of Jurjis Hadaya for circulating a document listing 'prospective reforms for the six provinces', nd (see /70 and /71)
/82 Letters to 'Dear Harpoot Friends' from George C Raynolds, 1896
/83-/84 Letters to HBH from Corinna Shattuck, 1896
/85 Letter to HBH from AG Fuller, nd
/86 Letter to James Rendel Harris and HBH from HN Barnum, 1896
/87 Report entitled 'News Notes No 30' from Aintab, 1896
/88 Letter from AGF [to MHS Bunting?], 1896
/89 Circular letter to James Rendel Harris and Friends from Corinna Shattuck, enclosing a translation of a letter from the Armenian School Committee of Oorfa, 1896
/90 Letter to James Rendel Harris probably from HN Barnum, 1896
/91 Letter to James Rendel Harris from HN Barnum, 1896
/92 Report by HN Barnum describing progress made on rebuilding houses in Armenia, nd
/93 Reports by George C Raynolds describing relief work in Van area, 1896
/94 Order of service for 'A Service in Commemoration of the Armenian Martyrs', nd
/95 Printed report describing resources needed for Armenian relief work (medical supplies, money), nd
/96 Report by A Fuller, nd
/97 Printed letter from CM Hallward, enclosing /98 accounts for funds spent on relief work, 1896
/98 Report entitled 'News Notes No 46' from Aintab, 1896
/99 Carbon copy circular letter from CH Lee [Central Turkey Mission], 1897
/100 Copy, made by James Rendel Harris, of a letter from George C Raynolds, nd
/101-/104 Cuttings reporting on interviews with HBH, describing her relief work in Armenia, 1896
/105-/109 Printed reports written as letters to WW Peet [Treasurer of American Missions, Constantinople], reporting on relief work in Armenia, 1895-1897
/110 Report entitled 'News Notes No 38' from Aintab, 1897
/111 Cutting from the Friend of an article entitled 'Armenia and Europe', 1897
/112 Printed leaflet by Samuel James Capper entitled 'Has the House of Commons a Duty towards Armenia?' 1897
/113-/116 Cuttings reporting on James Rendel Harris and HRH's travels in Armenia, 1896
/117 Cutting from The Friend, reporting on the work of the Friends' Armenian Relief Fund, 1896
/118 Report about the West Brousa Orphanage, by Theo. A Baldwin, 1897
/119 'Report of Relief in the Bitlis Field' by RM Cole, 1897
/120 Report entitled 'Orphans at Harpoot', nd
/121 Newsletter of the International Association of the Friends of Armenia, 1897
/122-/123 Newsletters of the Friends' Armenian Relief Fund, nos 9 and 12, 1897
/124 Printed leaflet by Samuel James Capper entitled 'Has the House of Commons a Duty towards Armenia?' 1897
/125 Cutting entitled 'Suffering Armenia', nd
/126 Newsletter of the International Association of the Friends of Armenia, 1897
/127 Newsletter of the Friends' Armenian Relief Fund, 1897
/128 Cutting reporting on a speech by Dr Grace Kimball discussing the situation in Armenia, nd
/129 Cutting of an article entitled 'The Horrors of Armenia', 1897
/130 Press cutting - list of donations made at a workers' rally, 1897
/131-/134 Cuttings reporting on the situation in Armenia, 1896-1897
/135 Issue of Le Temoinage, including an article entitled 'Conference des amis de l'Armenie', French, 1897
/136 Newsletter of the Friends of Armenia, 1898
/137 Carbon copy report entitled 'The Case of Rev George Trapp of Bitlis', describing the circumstances surrounding his arrest for disturbing the peace, nd
/138 Carbon copy report by NC Dewey entitled 'Our Martyred Ministers', describing massacres of Christians by Kurds in Diarbekir area, 1896
/139 Carbon copy letter to WW Peet, nd
/140 Photograph of a man labelled 'Am. servant, Hagopjan Relief purchaser and orphan steward, 1896-1897'.
/141 Photograph of a landscape, with annotations, very faded, 1897
/142 Photograph of a church tower and graveyard, nd
/143-/160 Carbon copy circular letters and personal letters to HBH from Caro. E Bush, 1896-1897
/161-/164, /166-/167 Letters to James Rendel Harris and HBH from Corinna Shattuck, 1897
/165 Letter to Corinna Shattuck from MH Knadjian, nd
/168 Letter to James Rendel Harris and HBH from Corinna Shattuck, 1898
/169 Envelope labelled by Helen Harris: 'Armenian and Syrian Wafers as Taken in the Ceremony of the Communion (or Mass) of the Church represented and of the which three are specimens given [to] JR and HB Harris by the priests when in Armenia', nd
/170 Cutting of an article entitled 'How the Lord's Supper is Administered', nd
/171 Christmas card publicising Armenia, 1896
/172 Cutting from the Friends' Armenian Relief Fund newsletter, 1896
/173 Letter, probably to James Rendel Harris, from LK, donating £25 to Armenian relief, nd
/174 Note made by HN Barnum listing statistics about massacres in Palu and its villages, including numbers killed or wounded, houses destroyed, people 'Apostatized', nd
/175 Carbon copy report describing disturbances in Silwan, Tarkin, and Mardin, nd
/176 Note listing names and amounts of money, nd
/177 Tracing of map of Armenia and Kurdistan, showing districts plundered by the Turks, post 1895
/178 Report entitled 'News notes no 40', written from Aintab, 1897
/179 Copy made by HBH of 'News Notes Harpoot Oct 6th', nd
/181 Copy letter sent by HBH to Princess Henry of Battenberg, 1896; /180 reply from Princess Henry, written by her secretary, 1896
/182 Pamphlet by CF Gates describing the history of the Evangelical High School for Boys at Mardin, 1891
/183 Cutting reporting on a lecture about Armenia given by James Rendel Harris, nd
/184, /186 Cuttings reporting on unrest in Russia and among Moslems in Asia, 1897
/185 Leaflet produced by the International Association of the Friends of Armenia publicising massacre of Christians in Ourfa, nd
/187-/188 Cuttings reporting the Sultan's views on Armenia, nd
/189-/190 Cuttings of letters from Mary Hickson and Francis William Crossley, campaigning on behalf of Armenia, 1897
/191 Letter to James Rendel Harris from James L Barton [Corresponding Secretary, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Affairs], replying to James Rendel Harris's letter of commiseration on the death of Catherine Fraser, 1899
/192 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Grace Kimball, 1899
/193 Letter to HBH from GH Fitzmaurice, 1899
/194 Letter to HBH from AW ?Terrey, 1896
/195-/198 Letters to HBH from Sir Philip Currie [British Ambassador to Turkey], nd
/199 Letter to HBH from James Bryce, 1899
/200 Letter to James Rendel Harris from E Atkin, 1899 |