These personal papers consist primarily of diaries kept by a minister, bishop, and school administrator of the (old) Mennonite Church in Kansas. Erb's began keeping a diary at age 14 and continued the practice almost continuously until his death 50 years later. Erb's diary entries are usually brief and discuss the weather, work, social gatherings, and events of note, such as the 1912 accident in which he was burned and one of his daughters was killed. Other materials in these papers include scattered correspondence, materials pertaining to his pastoral work, and a 1991 paper about T. M. Erb.
Family history materials, correspondence, school records (his), handwritten music score "Eventide" by Sara Glick, book Elsie Helen Friesen, From the Roots of Jacob Peters (1978) with annotations and inclusions, and Elsie Helen Epp, Episodes of the Prairie Pioneers: Five Branches from the Family Tree of Heinrich Epp (1991) with annotations and inclusions
This collection contains extensive correspondence between Voths and their relatives, Foreign Mission Board members, and fellow missionaries during the time period from 1910 to 1970s. Additional materials such as diaries and clippings give a good overview of mission work in China during the height of General Conference Mennonite Mission involvement in that country, 1910s to 1950. Additional correspondence and printed items touch on the search for mission fields in South America, Japan, and Taiwan, and some involvement with American Indian work among the Hopis.
