This series contains letters written to people throughout the world when Clark Hard was in Illinois. All letters are addressed to C.P. Hard unless otherwise specified. Letters cover a variety of topics and locations, including discussing past and current events from India; thanking Hard for a monetary donation; and acknowledgment of the distribution of books which pertain to religious history. There are also sections of letters pertaining to specific topics, such as the death of Hard's wife Lydia, or regarding Hard's birthday. The letters show a dedication to India and missionary activities throughout his life
This series is arranged alphabetically, then by topic of correspondence.
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B-C, 1918 -- 1923
Barnes, V.V., Zion, IL, June 7, 1922 [1] Bennett, Fred E., The Family Altar League, Chicago, IL, October 2, 1923 [2] Chapin, Lillian H., Chicago, IL, May 31, 1923 [3] Chenoweth, A.G., Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, New York, NY, January 21, 1920 [4] Clark, Allison F., Chicago Northern District, Chicago, IL, July 30, 1918 [5] Collins, Ada M., Bombay, India, June 1, 1923 [6] Collins, Alex [I?], Bombay, India, December 22, 1922 [7] Crouse, Margaret D., Khandva, India, January 27, 1923 [8]
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F, 1920 -- 1923
Faulkner, J.A., Drew Theological Seminary, Department of Church History, Madison, NJ, June 29, 1923 [10] Faulkner, J.A., Drew Theological Seminary, Department of Church History, Madison, NJ, July 9, 1923 [9] Faulkner, J.A., Drew Theological Seminary, Department of Church History, Madison, NJ, July 18, 1923 [11] Faulkner, J.A., Drew Theological Seminary, Department of Church History, Madison, NJ, July 24, 1923 [12] Faulkner, J.A., Drew Theological Seminary, Department of Church History, Madison, NJ, August 15, 1923 [13] Faulkner, J.A., Drew Theological Seminary, Department of Church History, Madison, NJ, August 20, 1923 [14] Faulkner, J.A., Drew Theological Seminary, Department of Church History, Madison, NJ, October 24, 1923 [15] Felt, F.R., Methodist Episcopal Church in Southern Asia, Jubbulpore, India, May 13, 1920 [16] Felt, F.R., Methodist Episcopal Church in Southern Asia, Jubbulpore, India, December 7, 1920 [17] Flickinger, Roy C., American School of Classical Studies, Olympia, Greece, November 27, 1923 [18] Finger, Peter W., Committee on Conservation and Advance of the Council of Boards of Benevolence, Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago, IL, August 17, 1923 [19] Fritchley, C. P., Calcutta, India, November 27, 1922 [20] Fritchley, C. P., Children's Lantern Service Mission, Calcutta, India, November 27, 1923 [21]
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G, 1923
Garden, Reverend J.H., Chaplain to Presbyterian and Wesleyan Troops, Belgaum, October 15, 1923 [22] Geering, Emilie, Bath, England, November 21, 1923 [23] Geering, Emilie, Bath, England, December 25, 1923 [24] Guse, Reverend C.F.H., Thoburn Biblical Institute, Zion, IL, January 5, 1923 [25]
Box 1 Folder 4
H-K, 1922 -- 1923
Hay, Clyde Lemont, The Board of Sunday Schools of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago, IL, March 16, 1922 [26] Hay, Clyde Lemont, The Board of Sunday Schools of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago, IL, April 26, 1922 [27] Kingham, J.J., Madras, India, January 11, 1922 [28] Kingham, J.J., Madras, India, April 21, 1922 [29] Kingham, J.J., Madras, India, November 16, 1922 [30] Kingham, J.J., Madras, India, January 19, 1923 [31] Kipp, John Dennis, Walworth, NY, February 11, 1923 [32]
Box 1 Folder 5
L-M, 1922 -- 1923
Lightfoot, LeRoy, Bombay, India, February 17, 1922 [33] Lightfoot, LeRoy, Bombay, India, April 22, 1922 [34] Linn, Hugh H., Hulda A. Crawford Memorial Hospital, Vikarabad, Deccan, India [192?] [35] Matthew, Reverend W.S., San Mateo, CA, May 23, 1923 [36] Matthew, Reverend W.S., Berkeley, CA, November 7, 1923 [37] Mell, A. Wesley, American Bible Society, Pacific Agency, San Francisco, CA, October 9, 1923 [38] Moss, Arthur Bruce, Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, New York, NY, January 30, 1923 [39]
Box 1 Folder 6
N, 1921 -- 1923
Nath, Onkar, Gadarwara, India, November 16, 1921 [40] Nath, Onkar, Gadarwara, India, March 25, 1922 [41] Nath, Onkar, Gadarwara, India, July 29, 1922 [42] Nath, Onkar, Gadarwara, India, October 17, 1922 [43] Nath, Onkar, Gadarwara, India, February 9, 1923 [44] Nath, Onkar, Gadarwara, India, March 8, 1923 [45] Nath, Onkar, Gadarwara, India, April 4, 1923 [46] Nath, Onkar, Gadarwara, India, September 6, 1923 [47] Nath, Onkar, Gadarwara, India, December 3, 1923 [48] Nicholson, Evelyn Riley, Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago, IL, February 28, 1922 [49] Nicholson, Thomas, Chicago, IL, December 27, 1921 [50] Nicholson, Thomas, Chicago, IL, April 5, 1922 [51] Nicholson, Thomas, Chicago, IL, August 27, 1923 [52]
Box 1 Folder 7
O-R, 1921 -- 1922
Oldham, Marie A., Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 29, 1922 [53] Oldham, William F., Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 29, 1922 [54] Price, F.B., The Indian Witness, Lucknow, India, December 8, 1921 [55] Price, F.B., The Indian Witness, Lucknow, India, January 26, 1922 [56] Robinson, J.E., Bangalore, India, January 12, 1922 [57] Robinson Retta I., (Mrs J.E.Robinson), Bangalore, India, March 1922 [58] Robinson Retta I., (Mrs J.E.Robinson), Bangalore, India, [November 1922?] [59] Robinson, John W., Bombay, India, November 11, 1922 [60]
Box 1 Folder 8
S, 1921 -- 1923
Samsun, Jabez, Narsingpore, October 20, 1922 [61] Sandmeyer, E.G., Illinois Annual Conference, Champaign, IL, September 13, 1923 [62] Shellabear, W.E., Madison, NY, February 23, 1923 [63] Singh, Paul, Foreign Missions Committee of Churches in Christ in Great Britain and Ireland, Bihar, August 30, 1921 [64] Singh, Paul, Foreign Missions Committee of Churches in Christ in Great Britain and Ireland, Bihar, October 10, 1922 [65] Singh, Paul, Foreign Missions Committee of Churches in Christ in Great Britain and Ireland, Bihar, February 7, 1923 [66] Speer, Robert E., The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the USA, New York, NY, June 14, 1923 [67]
Box 1 Folder 9
S, 1915 -- 1923
Stephens, Grace, Madras, India, November 23, 1915 [68] Stephens, Grace, Madras, India, November 15, 1916 [69] Stephens, Grace, Madras, India, August 2, 1917 [70] Stephens, Grace to Lydia Hard, [Bangalore, India?] January 23, 1920 [71] Stephens, Grace to Lydia Hard, Bangalore, India, February 2, 1920 [72] Stephens, Grace to Lydia Hard, Bangalore, India, August 25, 1921 [73] Stephens, Grace to Lydia Hard, Bangalore, India, August 24, 1921 [74] Stephens, Grace to Lydia Hard, Bangalore, India, November 15, 1921 [75] Stephens, Grace to C.P.H, Bangalore, India, February 21, 1922, 4 enclosures re: death of Bishop J.E. Robinson [76] Stephens, Grace, Bangalore, India, April 5, 1922 [77] Stephens, Grace, Bangalore, India, August 23, 1922 [78] Stephens, Grace, Bangalore, India, August 30, 1922 [79] Stephens, Grace, Bangalore, India, October 10, 1922 [80] Stephens, Grace, Bangalore, India, October 12, 1922 [81] Stephens, Grace, Bangalore, India, November 30, 1922 [82] Stephens, Grace, Bangalore, India, March 15, 1923 [83] Stephens, Grace, Bangalore, India, August 13, 1923 [84] Stephens, Grace, Bangalore, India, September 24, 1923 [85] Stephens, Grace, Bangalore, India, October 27, 1923 [86] Stephens, Grace, Bangalore, India, November 14, 1923 [86a] Stuart, Charles M., Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, IL, October 28, 1921 [87]
Box 1 Folder 10
T-W, 1914 -- 1923
Taylor, Mrs. Hugh, Nan North, Siam, September 1923 [88] Thoburn, J.M., Meadville, PA, March 10, 1914 [89] Thoburn, J.M., Meadville, PA, December 6, 1915 [90] Torrey, R.L., Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, New York, NY, April 13, 1920 [91] Twidale, C.H.A., Serampore, India, February 14, 1923 [92] Twidale, C.H.A., Kurseong, May 26, 1923 [93] Twidale, C.H.A., Kurseong, August 12, 1923 [94] Twidale, C.H.A., Serampore, December 4, 1923 [95] Wynkoop, T.S., New York, NY, March 19, 1923 [96]
Box 1 Folder 11
Correspondence Concerning Death of wife Lydia Hard, 1922 -- 1923
Stuart, Charles M., Evanston, IL, September 7, 1922 [97] Donohugh, Thomas S., Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, New York, NY, September 9, 1922 [98] Geering, Emilie, Bath, England, September 15, 1922 [99] Collins, Ada, Bombay, India, September 18, 1922 [100] Nicholson, Evelyn Riley, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago, IL, September 19, 1922 [101] Robinson, Retta I., Bangalore, India, October 10, 1922 [102] Collins, Ada to Vincent Hard, Bombay, India, October 13, 1922 [103] Linn, H.H., Vikarabad, India, October 30, 1922 [104] Dewadasan, J. to Dr. O'Brien, Bareilly Theological Seminary, Bareilly, India, October 31, 1922 [105] Hawkins, J.N., Bangalore, India, November 1, 1922 [106] Robinson, Retta I., Bangalore, India, November 1, 1922 [107] Calkins, H.D., Lucknow, India, November 8, 1922 [108] Parker, A.A., Bombay, India November 9, 1922 [109] Twidale, C.H.A., Serampore, India, [November?] 1922 [110] Warne, Frank W., Meerul, India, November 14, 1922 [111] Price, Frederick B., The Indian Witness, Lucknow, India, November 23, 1922 [112] Scholberg, H.C., Hardwicke Christian High School, Narsingpur, India, December 3, 1922 [113] Eldridge, George, Rajputana, India, December 7, 1922 [114] Sheets, Emily T., Evanston, IL, December 13, 1922 [115] Wright, Mrs. E., Pachmarhi, India, December 18, 1922 [116] Lightfoot, LeRoy, Puntamba, India, December 29, 1922 [117] Collins, Williams, Bombay, India, May 10, 1923 [118]
Box 1 Folder 12
Correspondence Concerning C. P. Hard's 77th Birthday, 1923
Fowler, George M., Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, New York, NY, July 10, 1923 [119] Clark, Allison F., Chicago Northern District Rock River Conference, Chicago, IL, August 14, 1923 [120] Maveety, P.J., The Board of Education for Negroes of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, OH, August 15, 1923 [121] Stuart, Charles M., Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, IL, August 16, 1923 [122] Landes, W.G., World's Sunday School Association, New York, NY, August 21, 1923 [123] Harris, A.M., The Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church, New York, NY, August 27, 1923 [124] Mell, A. Wesley, American Bible Society Pacific Agency, San Francisco, CA, September 1, 1923 [125] Loveland, Golbert, The Board of Sunday Schools of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago, IL, September 15, 1923 [126] Fahs, Charles H., Missionary Research Library Committee of Reference and Counsel of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America, New York, NY, September 18, 1923 [127]
Box 1 Folder 13
Correspondence with Libraries, 1917 -- 1922
Fahs, Charles H., Missionary Research Library, New York, NY, February 8, 1917 [128] Hering, Hollis W., Missionary Research Library, Committee of Reference and Counsel of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America, New York, NY, February 23, 1922 [129] Fahs, Charles H., Missionary Research Library, Committee of Reference and Counsel of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America, New York, NY, August 2, 1922 [130] Clark, C.P.to C.H. Fahs, Zion City, IL, August 14, 1922 [131] Hard, John V., Zion City, IL, September 3, 1922 [132] Fahs, Charles H., Missionary Research Library, Committee of Reference and Counsel of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America, New York, NY, September 25, 1922 [133] Stults, Josephine McK., Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, NJ, October 5, 1922 [134] Ayres, S.G., Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, IL, November 25, 1922 [135] Sanford, N.W., Olivet University, Olivet, IL, December 2, 1922 [136] Stahl E. Wayne, Olivet Library, Olivet, IL, December 4, 1922 [137] Hard, C.P. to Charles H. Fahs, Zion City, IL, [1922?] [138] Hard, C.P. to Charles H. Fahs, Zion City, IL, [1922?] [139]