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box 1: Christmas letters from Helen and Adam Mueller; letters from Helen to Sara and Bill 1927-1950, 1954-1972; Helen's letters to family 1950-1954; letters from Agatha to Sara and Bill 1927-1967
box 2: letters from Agatha to Sara and Bill 1968-1972; letters from Ruth to Sara and Bill 1926-1972
box 3: letters to Wilhelm from Johannes K. Penner 1920-1922; letters from Sara to William 1926-1927; letters from William to Sara 1927; wedding wishes and misc. June 1927; misc. letters to Sara and Bill 1928-1929; letters from Bill to Sara and Sara to Bill 1930-1932; misc. letters 1932-1933; letters from family to William and Sara 1934
box 4: letters from family and misc. letters 1935-1945; letters from Mrs. Abr. J. Klassen to William and Sara 1946-1968
box 5: letters to William and Sara Penner, to Wm. Penner from Anna Penner, misc letters 1927-1930; letters to William and Sara from Penner 1931-1932; letters from William to Sara and Sara to William 1933-1934; get well cards to William, misc. letters 1934; misc. letters 1935-1937; letters to Sara from family members and William 1940-1949
box 6: letters from Johannes K. Penner to William Penner at camp and ranch; also letters from other family members to William; letters to William and Sara from Penner family and relatives 1925-1942
box 7: letters from Menka(?) in Vienna to Sara 1921; letters from William to Sara and Sara to William and misc. letters 1924-1970; letters from Mrs. Abr. J. Klassen and other family members to Mrs. Wm. Penner 1932-1951
box 8: letters from Mrs. Abr. J. Klassen to William and Sara 1960-1968
box 9: genealogy of William Penner's predecessors; genealogy of Sara Penner's predecessors; public school certificate of awards 1914-1915; William and Sara's wedding certificate; William's certificate of church membership; 1926 Bethel College commencement invitation (Sara); wedding announcements of Jacob D. Hiebert and Anna H. Janzen; misc. items, photographs, Johannes K. Penner writings and obituary; correspondence with archivist

Correspondence, financial records, scripts, catalogs related to his filmmaking and film rental business

The papers were in jumbled condition when they came to the MLA.  Some items were in a self-adhesive photo album dating possibly from the early 1970s.  These items were removed and the album discarded.  The papers are divided into several series: business papers, personal financial papers, community organizations, school papers, miscellaneous.  Unfortunately there is little correspondence.  The business papers are very fragmentary but could shed some light on Rapp’s business activities and on early Hesston businesses.  The personal financial papers are also fragmentary but offer a little information on the family’s business in Hesston and Tuleta.  The community organizations series relates to the beginnings of the Hesston Cemetery Association and the school that became Hesston College.  The school papers offer some insight into classroom life at Hesston College in its early years.  The miscellaneous series includes a Maple Grove Sunday School record book 1883-1886 and unidentified photos among its more interesting holdings.

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.

Box 1: papers related to Hopefield-Eden?
Box 2: Western District Tidings issues, telephone line record (Moundridge area?) 1921-1963, more Hopefield-Eden material, Kaufman and Dirks family history, Western District Mennonite Men records
Box 3: Western District Historical Committee, Executive Committee, Council of Representatives 1977-1979
Box 4-6: subject files, writings, correspondence, family history
Box 7: Western District Mennonite Men 1957-1961
Box 8: Western District youth activities 1938-1942
Box 9: same as boxes 4-6, plus master's thesis 1942, and diaries (whose?)
box 10: miscellaneous files, family history materials, education files
box 11: (map folder) family history materials, diplomas

Appears to be mostly sermons, mostly post-1945. Some class notes from seminary or Bible school

box 1: sermons 1955-1967

box 2: sermons, Bible study notes, photos 1946-1955

A photo album showing flooding in Louisville, Kentucky, while he was in seminary there in 1937.

Some Civilian Public Services photos were removed to the subject photo collection.

Consists entirely of his papers from his term on the Bethel College board of directors.

Microfilmed letters from Lange to Peter Wedel. Location of some originals unknown.

Digitized at http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/mf_mss_139/lange/

Dates of letters:

12 April 1815

5 June 1815

1 September 1816

11 March 1818

25 February 1819

one undated

30 July 1819

6 February 1820

Consists entirely of source material for his paper "A Study of Mennonite Service Programs: A Historical and Empirical Study prepared for the Institute of Mennonite Studies, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries, Elkhart, Indiana, July 1965."

Part I is a manuscript entitled “Gott hört uns nicht mehr”.  This appears to be a first-person, historical novel about Mennonites in the “Gulag” in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.  Previously, this item was cataloged in the MLA's library, accession #17547, acquired in 1972.       

Part II is a manuscript entitled “Wenn Gott die Weiche stellt”.  This is another historical novel, about Mennonite refugees from the Soviet Union.  This item was also cataloged in the MLA's library collection, accession #17462, acquired in 1972.       

Part III is a collection of source documents and notes entitled “Material zur Geschichte der Mennoniten in Brasilien”.  Most of the material covers the late 1940s and early 1950s.  As one can see, not all of the material is about Brazil.  These papers were at the Mennonite Church USA Archives–Goshen until 2011; the North Newton archives had photocopies.  The arrangement of the material here corresponds as closely as possible to Quiring's own outline for it.  Folder 22 is a manuscript by Johann Sjouke Postma entitled “Fernheim, Fernes Heim?”.  Folders 26-29 are not part of Quiring's outline.  The MLA has 909 individually numbered pages in this section.       

Part IV is a rough draft entitled “Witmarsum am Krauel”.  This is a more polished draft rather than a collection of documents as in Part III.  These are arranged according to Quiring's outline.  Folder 45 is not part of Quiring's outline and just contains notes, sources, and bibliography.       

Part V is entitled “Material zur Geschichte der Auflösung der Ansiedlung Witmarsum in Santa Catarina”.  This is again a collection of source documents and notes, from the late 1940s and early 1950s.  These items are photographic copies; that is, copies on photographic paper, not xerographic copies.  The present location of the originals [1989] is unknown.  The arrangement is according to Quiring's outline, but Roman numeral XIX from his outline, “Verschiedenes,” is missing. These deteriorating pages have been scanned [2011], in folder archives/ms_139.       

Part VI is a draft entitled “Canadische Mennoniten 1875-1975".  The termination date of 1975 seems somewhat strange since the manuscript was acquired by the MLA in 1972 and was cataloged as part of the MLA's library collection, accession #17461.  The manuscript may have been modified since 1972.  This is once again a draft rather than a collection of documents.  These are original materials, not photocopies.  The message of this rather rough draft is a bitter denunciation of contemporary Canadian Mennonitism for being different from the Mennonitism of Quiring's childhood.  The contents bear only a slight resemblance to Quiring's accompanying outline and may not be in original order.       

Part VII consists of two folders of miscellaneous drafts of articles by Quiring and several of his writings that had earlier been cataloged in the MLA library holdings.

Box 1: Central District files, Wayland church files, subject files

Box 2: subject files, minutes, correspondence

Box 3: subject files, Mennonite Disaster Service files

Box 4: Mennonite Disaster Service files

Waldo and Martha were siblings.

• Vierstimmige deutsche, englische und franzoeische Melodien, 1858, with illuminated page "Liederbuch zu Abraham [Ratzlaff] in Franzthal, 1866"
• Hillsboro Academy grade card, 1922 (Martha)
• copy book with poems, no date (Martha)
• laboratory notebook for botany, Bethel College 1925-1926 (Waldo)
• laboratory notebook for biology, Bethel College 1927 (Martha)
• Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening, 1926 (Martha)
• penmanship copy book, Abraham Ratzlaff
• folder of plays and prayers (Martha)

box 1: Mennonite World Conference 1962 scrapbook brought in by Esther Wenger 6 Aug 2002; Mennonite World Conference India 1997 scrapbooks brought in by Milton Claassen 3 Jan 2012

box 2: correspondence, photos, print items, brought in by Milton Claassen 3 Jan 2012

box 3: photos, correspondence, diplomas, passports, plaques, master's thesis, scrapbook

box 4: framed diploma - University of Kansas master's; photo album of Japan school work

box 5: photo albums, scrapbooks

box 6-8: correspondence

box 9-10: diaries and other notebooks