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Letter to Aeltester Fast, Wedel and, Goerz by Heinrich R. Balzer (1833). Includes lyrics #1 - 50. Photocopy of handwritten, German original.

Letter from Heinrich Enns, January 16, 1877 to widows Mrs. John Isaac and Mrs. Klaas Friesen and their families, sister - in - law to Heinrich Enns. Photocopy of handwritten, German original. (4 pages)

Circulatory letter by Cornelius S. Plett, Kleefeld, Molotschna neighbours. May 11. Photocopy of handwritten, German original. (1 page)

Various writings compiled by Mrs. Helena Reimer 1908. Letter to Heinrich and Abraham Reimer (January 21, 1875), Blumenhof, Borensenko. Also includes a poem about grandparents, H. Reimer, Gruenfeld, and a writing by Klaas Reimer. Photocopy of handwritten,

Letter from Abram Friesen to brother Wiebe. December 24, 1869 and a letter to Brother Wiebe from Peter Toews Aug 1869.Copied by Abraham Friesen. Photocopy of handwritten, German original.

Letters found in Abram Friesen's sermon. (May 1, 1885 and February 28, 1895). Author, unknown. Photocopy of handwritten, German original.

Letters to John E. Friesen, Ste. Anne, MB. Letters and accounts, personal. Receipts (1908 and 1948). Photocopy

Blumenort, MB. To Fairburry, Jefferson County, Nebraska. Letters regarding Holdeman Schism. Photocopy of handwritten, German originals.

The American Mennonite Association was formed in 1939 to support the financial, educational, travel, and housing needs of missionaries appointed by the Menonite Board of Missions to serve in India.    The association continued to coordinate and oversee the work of  (old) Mennonite Church missionaries who remained in India after the dissolution of the American Mennonite Mission in 1952.  This series contains the association's constitution, meeting minutes, and administrative correspondence, as well as less formal correspondence and telegrams.

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 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.

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).

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.

Field Records from the 1920s.

A small set of documents from the files of former Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) board member Evelyn Shellenberger.  Duplicate documents found in X-18-001 were removed from Shellenberger's files for the convenience of researchers.  Materials include correspondence from and about John Howard Yoder regarding his harassment of women and his continued presence at AMBS.