Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Ian Harper Cooke and Ruth Eileen (Witmer) Cook, in which Ian describes his childhood and education in South Africa, college education at Wheaton College, training for missionary work, medical missions work in South Africa with The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), the Zulus, apartheid, and the national church; and Ruth describes her childhood, conversion, and intention to become a missionary nurse, education at West Suburban Hospital and Wheaton College,...

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Diaries, notebooks, correspondence, clippings, financial records, tracts, photographs, and certificates belonging to Malla Moe, missionary to South Africa, 1892-1953, under Scandinavian Alliance Mission (later TEAM). Correspondence documents evangelistic work among South African tribes in Swaziland and Tongoland and includes descriptions of the Boer War, life in African communities, and church growth.

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Letter from Mary Jane Wilson to her uncle, Michael Gretter, in Richmond, Virginia. The letter describes the new baby born to her and her husband; the attempt of missionaries Daniel Lindley and Henry Venable to establish a mission station in a southern Africa territory (Moseqa) under the protection of a Matabele tribal chief (Moselekatse); local marriage customs; severe drought in Grinquatown; and impressions of Robert Moffat, Robert Hamilton, and Roger Edwards.