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Volume 2432
5 Photocopy of original Judith (Dyck) Epp diary 1878-1906. Jul. 1906 and Apr. 4 1917 - Jan. 17 1919 written by son Gerhard Epp. Jan. 18 1919 - Mar. 1919 written by Gerhard Epp's wife Katharina (Janzen) Epp. - 1878-1919. (diary No. 7)
6 Photocopy of original Judith (Dyck) Epp diary with transcription and translation. - 1878-1919.
7 Transcription of Gerhard and Judith (Dyck) Epp's diary entries in his mother, Judith (Dyck) Epp's diary. - 1906, 1917-1919; predominant 1917-1919.

Volume 4636
1 Original David G. Epp diary. - Feb 8 1931 - Apr. 6 1932 .
2 Translation of the David G. Epp diary. - Feb. 8 1931 - Apr. 6 1932 .
3 Original David G. Epp diary. - Apr. 7 1932 - Jan. 20 1933 .
4 Translation of the David G. Epp diary. - Apr. 7 1932 - Jan. 20 1933 .
5 Original David G. Epp diary. - Jan. 21 1933 - Feb. 6 1934 .
6 Original David G. Epp diary. Feb. 8 1934 - Dec. 31 1934 ; Jan. 1 1940 - Nov. 4 1941 . (The Feb. 8 1934 - Dec. 31 1934 diary is followed by the five year diary, Jan. 1 1935 - Dec. 31 1939 diary in Volume 4636: 8).
7 Translation of the David G. Epp diary. - Jan. 21 1933 - Feb. 6 1934 ; Feb. 8 1934 - Dec. 31 1934 .
8 Original David G. Epp diary. - Jan. 1 1935 - Dec. 31 1939 .
9 Translation of the David G. Epp diary. Jan. 1 1935 - Dec. 31 1939 . NOTE: The David G. Epp diary from Jan. 1 1940 - Nov. 4 1941 is found in Volume: 4636: 6.
10 Original David G. Epp diary. - Nov. 6 1941 - July 13 1947 .
11 Original David G. Epp diaries. - Dec. 31 1952 - Dec. 31 1964 . (These diaries are in 12 envelopes).
12 Original David G. Epp diary. -- 1948-1952.
Volume 4637
1 Original David G. Epp diary. - Jan. 1 1965 - Dec. 31 1969 .
2 Original David G. Epp diary. - Jan. 1 1970 - Dec. 31 1974 .
3 Original David G. Epp diary. - Jan. 1 1975 - Dec. 31 1979 .
4 Original David G. Epp diary. - Jan. 1 1975 - Dec. 31 1985 , Jan. 22, 1986 .

This fonds contains three diaries the first from 1945 until 1987 which appears to have been recopied. The first diary gives memoirs and accounts of Penner’s time in India including personal stories, politics, weather, and major news events. The first diary also includes loose pages in the back from 1981 and 1993, other loose pages are included with no specified year. The second diary spans from 1988 until 1990, and the third from 1990-1992. These two diaries are from Penner’s retirement in Winnipeg, Manitoba and include memoirs, personal experiences, news, and medical topics such as AIDS. Penner’s bible has prayers and notes throughout, in the back there is a short timeline of her first trip to India.
In addition, This fonds contains a letter written by Penner to her adoptive relative Doreen Loewen in 1956 while she was in India, recounting her work in the hospital and teaching Sunday school. Finally, also included are Penner's business card and two pins; one of these pins is a nursing pin, and the other contains a photo of her late parents.

Personal papers of a bishop of the (old) Mennonite Church and administrator of La Junta Mennonite Hospital and Sanatarium (La Junta, Colorado).  Series include:

(1) Correspondence and Subject Files, 1928-1975

(2) Diaries, 1921, 1961-1963, 1966

(3) Miscellaneous, 1925-1969

Personal papers of a prominent administrator who held leadership positions in multiple Mennonite-related organizations over a career spanning four decades between 1953 and 1993. Kraybill also served as a board member and organizational consultant for a variety of institutions, including the American Leprosy Mission, Lancaster Mennonite School, and Lombard Mennonite Church. Materials consist of daily calendars, administrative trip reports, writings and manuscripts, photographs, scattered correspondence, committee minutes, and organizational working files. The papers are divided into the following series and subseries:

(1) Day Timers and Calendars, 1956-1992

(2) Manuscripts, Notes, and Talks, 1950-1991

(3) Organizational Working Files, 1956-1992

A. Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities

B. Mennonite Church General Board

C. Mennonite Christian Leadership Foundation

D. Mennonite Housing Aid, Inc.

E. Mennonite World Conference

F. Mennonite Health Association

(4) General Subject Files, 1942-1991

(5) Photographs and Miscellaneous, 1942-1991

Correspondence 1930-47 with gaps

diaries 1917-79 with gaps

autograph books

clippings

Personal papers of a lifelong peace activist from the Mennonite / Anabaptist tradition.  Materials include journals, personal and professional correspondence, reports and articles associated with his work for International Voluntary Services (IVS) and Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), lectures and speeches, photographs, and remembrance books compiled after his death.  These papers also include Synapses: Messages, newsletters of a grass-roots human rights and spirituality organization based in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s.

Photocopy of a typed transcript of the German-language diary of an Old Order Amish man in Middlebury, Indiana.  The author also went buy the name "Hansi Borntrager."  Entries are generally one sentence long, and the the diary documents only the "most important and most unusual events."

Personal papers of an educator and editor who served the (old) Mennonite Church.  Series include:

(1) Diaries, 1908-1921

(2) Sermons and Sermon Notes, 1924-1974

(3) Notes for Orie O. Miller Biography, circa 1960-1968

(4) Correspondence, 1936-1982

(5) Subject Files, 1916-1984