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Incoming and outgoing admistrative correspondence from the highest office of the American Mennonite Mission in India.  Correspondence includes communications between the mission board in the United States as well as Indian government officials.  These records also include ledger books listing the names of donors who provided financial sponsorship of Indian orphans.

Personal papers of early Mennonite mission workers in India.  Materials are divided into five series:

Series 1: Correspondence, 1888-1937

Series 2: Diaries and Notebooks, 1892-1935

Series 3: Writings and Educational Records, circa 1897-1930

Series 4: Miscellaneous Materials, circa 1890-1948

Series 5: Photographs, circa 1890-1948

Photographs, correspondence, diaries,  sermons, and other material documenting the Brunks' mission work in India.  The most unusual item in the papers is Eva Brunk's essay, "My First O.B. Case in Dondi," which provides a first hand account of childbirth and post-natal care and customs in a "High Caste Brohmin's home" in the early 20th century.

A hodgepodge of letters that includes correspondence regarding missionaries' passport and residency issues, correspondence with Indian college students sponsored by the mission, letters from mission staff in Elkhart, Ind. circulated among the missionaries, and correspondence pertaining to clothing and bedding orders filled by various Mennonite sewing circles.

A small set of personal papers created by a  Mennonite medical missionary couple in India at the turn of the 20th century.  Materials include William Page's diary (1899), outgoing correspondence by Alice and William Page, assorted travel documents (passports, tickets, etc.), clippings, and photographs.

These papers are organized into four series:

(1) Correspondence, 1907-1951

(2) Articles, Manuscripts, and Sermons, 1926-1951, undated

(3) Miscellaneous, 1898-1950

(4) Photographs, circa 1893 -1950

The collection consists of letters written by Mennonite missionaries Royal and Evelyn Bauer from India to family and friends from 1949 to 1952.

This series consists primarily of Incoming and outgoing correspondence to and from the office of the secretary, which appears to have replaced the office of the superintendent as the director of the mission's affairs.  Researchers will find in this series correspondence between the secretary and leaders of the Mennonite Board of Missions, Indian government officials, and non-Mennonite mission organizations.  Also present here are the secretary's record book (1905-1915), which contains the earliest executive committee and business meeting minutes as well as a number of subject files.

Secretaries of the American Mennonite Mission include J. N. Kauffman, Aldine Carpenter Brunk, and J. D. Graber (1937-1944).

Assorted records pertaining to the mission industrial schools, industrial workshop, orphanage, and primary, middle, and high schools.  Records include correspondence, reports, attendee lists, and miscellaneous materials.

A small set of personal papers documenting the work of this Mennonite missionary couple in India at the turn of the century.  The papers consist primarily of Jacob Burkhard's outgoing correspondence, but also include incoming correspondence to Jacob Burkhold, the memoirs and diary of Jacob Burkhard, letters and notes written by Mary Burkhard, scrapbooks of clippings regarding Mennonite missionary work in India, and Mary Burkhard's Bibles.

This small set of personal papers is divided into three series:

(1) Sermons, 1934-1966

(2) Miscellaneous Materials, 1897-1966

(3) Writings and Manuscripts, 1917-1966

Two "update" letters from the Shirks describing their missionary work in India and Hong Kong.

Six form letters written by missionaries Jacob H. and Arvilla Flisher to inform their family, friends, and supporters of their activities in Dhamtari, India.  Their letters share information about their children, their work in India, and their encounters with other Mennonites abroad.

Lillie Shenk Kaufman's papers document her missionary work primarily through her outgoing correspondence.  The papers also include outgoing stateside correspondence, photographs, school records, articles, postcards, and information about her husband, James Norman Kaufman.