Scope and Contents Letters, reports, and photos of an American missionary, Sarah "Belle" Sherwood Hawkes in Persia, now Iran. Subjects discussed in letters include status of women in Persia, progress of mission work, and Sherwood family affairs.This collection consists of several letters written by Hawkes to her family, 1883-1899; and two reports prepared for the mission board which she served, 1884 and 1899. The correspondence discusses her initial reactions to Persian life upon her arrival in 1883,...