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Onsite storage.
Formerly part of the independent Missionary Research Library (MRL), these records were purchased from a storage warehouse by Margery Quigley, librarian at the Free Public Library in Montclair, New Jersey, and donated to the MRL in September 1944. They were accessioned by the Burke Library at the time of the MRL's closure in 1976.
Cornelia A. Condict was born Cornelia Eames (or Emes) on April 11, 1835, and married Rev. Walter C. Condict (or Condit) in 1873, who had graduated from Princeton Seminary in 1867 and who was preaching in Newark, New Jersey in the early 1870s. In 1883 Cornelia addressed the Women's Missionary Society on the subject of India, and the next year she worked as Sabbath-school missionary and superintendent of the primary department of Central Presbyterian Church in Newark. In 1886 she traveled to India. In 1888 Walter passed away, and the next year Cornelia traveled to Singapore, and again to India in 1890. In 1901 she served as the Corresponding Secretary for the Woman's Synodical Society for Foreign Missions in New Jersey. She died on December 19, 1926 and is buried in the cemetery of First Presbyterian Church in Morristown, NJ.
Missionary Research Library Archives: MRL7, Japan
Item description, MRL7: Cornelia A. Condict papers, 1883-1944, box #, folder #, The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University in the City of New York.
Metal clips and staples were removed from materials and folded items were flattened. Materials were placed in new acid-free folders and boxes. Acidic items were separated from one another by interleaving with acid-free paper as needed. The finding aid was created by Gregory Adam Scott in 2009, reviewed and updated by Sarah Davis in 2014 with the support of the Henry Luce Foundation, and edited by Leah Edelman in 2020.
This collection contains manuscript diaries written while Condict was living in Richmond, Virginia, and while traveling in Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, and India, with contents chiefly related to mission work. This collection also contains provenance and bibliographic notes, and some correspondence.
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This file may also contain excerpts from the diaries, circa 1883-1894.
Diary Book No. 6 may contain calling cards and notes.