Family correspondence, prayer letters, brochures, newspaper clippings, prayer cards and letters from other missionaries, photographs, slides, negatives, journals and diaries, and eight interviews concerning Elliott's childhood in China, mission work with China Inland Mission (now Overseas Missionary Fellowship) in China and the Philippines, her experiences as an evangelist and teacher, her life in China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, and the civil war that followed. Her retirement is also documented in the later years. Topics covered include Elliot's childhood in China, education at Wheaton College and Wheaton College Graduate School, work as missionary in China and the Philippines, her career as an elementary teacher in the US, and her retirement in 1977. The materials in Elliott's papers give first-hand information on the missionary work in China during World War II and under the communist rule before 1951, missions in the Philippines, and the education of missionary children. The arrangement of the collection and folder titles were provided by the processor. Duplicates, some unidentified photographs not related to her missionary work, and extraneous items were not included in the collection and returned to the donor.