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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."

The papers of Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander primarily document relief and service work to Russian Mennonite refugees after World War II.  Materials include correspondence, poems, testimonies, and songs by Russian Mennonite refugees, reports and correspondence pertaining to Mennonite Central Committee relief work in the Netherlands and Paraguay, a diary kept by Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander during her Europen relief work, correspondence between Vernon and Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander, and a well-labeled photograph album documenting Evangeline Matthies Neuschwander's relief and service work.  Other materials include records of Vernon Neuschwander's Civilian Public Service work, family and genealogical materials, Evangeline's writing and reminiscences, and miscellaneous materials.

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

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 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

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.

Abraham Toews will?, 1877; Hutterite historical account of the group at Vishenka by a Peter Neufeld, 1866; financial record books, possibly of Bethel church, 1909-1925; poems by Peter T. Neufeld; German sermons 1850s-1890s and undated, authors not given, but some probably by Heinrich Neufeld and Heinrich Toews; catechism booklet 1880; Isaac Peters "Vortrag bei einer Lehrerwahl" Marienthal, no date; Isaac Peters, "Etwas über den Zweck der Form u. die Bedeutung der christlichen Wassertaufe," no date; Heinrich Toews diary; Bethel Jugend-Verein speeches and correspondence by Peter T. Neufeld

Diaries; talks, speeches by her; correspondence 1920s-30s; slides; photo album; village statistics charts from India mission

Diaries, music book, small amount of correspondence

Music book has been digitized: http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/ms_273/

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.

Photocopies of diaries and correspondence created during Yoder's period of service in post World War I France with the American Friends Service Committee.

correspondence, sermons, subject files

Wall's diary 1824-1860 of events in his region. Also a listing of births, deaths, etc. mentioned in the diary, compiled by Glenn Penner. The title "Record Book of the Chortitza Mennonite Settlement 1824-1860" also seems to have been used for this document, although it isn't really an accurate description.