MS 0631.1
Correspondence , 1881-1915
2 folders
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0631, The Charlotte E. and Mary A.C. Ely Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1998/04/30
Description:
This series consists of letters written by
Charlotte and Mary Ely between 1881-1915 and two
letters to Charlotte Ely from Mary D. Uline dated
May 8 and June 25, 1913. The Ely correspondence
includes original letters and copies of letters
printed in newspapers and missionary periodicals.
These documents are usually addressed to
relatives and friends, including a cousin, Grace
A. Ely, and a Mount Holyoke classmate, Anna C.
Edwards, Class of 1859. The letters describe the
Ely's work at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary,
Bitlis, and comment on social and political
conditions in Turkey, such as an earthquake in
1907 and Turkish attacks on Armenians from the
1890s through 1915. The Elys also mention the
work of other missionaries in the region,
including several Mount Holyoke alumnae: Grace
H. Knapp, Class of 1893, Lizzie Cobleigh Cole,
x-Class of 1870, Frances A. and Helen Norton,
Class of 1863, and Martha W. Tinker Raynolds,
Class of 1859.
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MS 0631.2
Writings , 1861, ca. 1902
2 folders
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0631, The Charlotte E. and Mary A.C. Ely Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1998/04/30
Description:
This series consists of a notebook kept by
Charlotte Ely as a student at Mount Holyoke
Female Seminary in 1861 and an autobiographical
sketch written by one of both sisters in about
1902. The notebook contains notes concerning
U.S. and world history, "English Composition,"
and "Stenography" (shorthand). The
autobiographical sketch describes the Ely's
family background and childhood, education,
travels in England and Europe in 1865-1866, their
meeting with the Reverend and Mrs. George C.
Knapp, and their subsequent work as missionaries
and teachers in Turkey.
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MS 0631.3
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, Bitlis, Records , ca. 1868-1899
2 folders
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0631, The Charlotte E. and Mary A.C. Ely Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1998/04/30
Last Updated: 1998/04/30
Description:
This series includes copies of the seal and
diploma for this school, dating from ca. 1868 and
the 1880s, and a report written by Charlotte Ely
in 1899 concerning the "Bitlis Orphanage."
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MS 0631.4
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Records ,
1914-1916
1 folder
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0631, The Charlotte E. and Mary A.C. Ely Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1998/04/30
Description:
These records consist of copies of letters,
printed bulletins, and the October 1915 issue of
"The Missonary Herald," all issued and
distributed by the Board. This material chiefly
reflects the impact of events during World War I
on missionary activities and Armenian populations
in Turkey. The documents include quotations from
reports sent to the Board by missionaries in
Bitlis and elsewhere.
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MS 0631.5
Biographical Information , ca. 1892-1990
3 folders
Forms part of MS 0631, The Charlotte E. and Mary A.C. Ely Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1998/04/30
Description:
This information includes newspaper articles,
articles from missionary publications and other
journals, a biographical sketch by Anna Hunt
Knapp published in 1917, several published and
unpublished letters written by associates of the
Elys, and notes about the sisters and their
school compiled by Anna C. Edwards. The articles
and the notes by Edwards date from about
1892-1910 and include quotations or excerpts from
letters and other writings by the Elys. The
letters primarily concern Mary Ely's final
illness and death in 1913 and events in Turkey in
1914-1915. Correspondents include Grace H.
Knapp, Mary D. Uline, and Edwin St. John Ward.
This series also includes a number of documents
published after 1917, such as a lengthy article
about Mount Holyoke Seminary in Bitlis from the
Spring 1990 issue of "Armenian Review."
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MS 0631.6
Information about Turkey , 1877, 1912-1917
1 folder
Forms part of MS 0631, The Charlotte E. and Mary A.C. Ely papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1998/04/30
Description:
This series includes a "Translation of a letter
written by a citizen of Van, to the
ecclesiastical head of the Armenian Church at
Bitlis, July 1877" and a number of newspaper
articles, articles from missionary publications,
and published and unpublished letters written
between 1912-1917. These documents describe the
treatment of Armenians in Turkey before and
during the massacre of 1915, a severe earthquake
at Bitlis in 1912, and Mary D. Uline's work and
travels in Turkey.
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MS 0631.7
Memorabilia , ca. 1868-1915
1 folder
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0631, The Charlotte E. and Mary A.C. Ely Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1998/04/30
Description:
This series consists of a piece of lace, a book
of scriptural translations entitled "St. John
iii.16, &c in Most of the Languages and Dialects
in which the British and Foreign Bible Society
has printed or Circulated the Holy Scriptures,"
published in London in 1895, and two poems by
Grace H. Knapp written in 1901 and ca. 1914.
These items apparently belonged to the Elys.
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MS 0631.8
Photographs , ca. 1861-1915
7 folders
Forms part of MS 0631, The Charlotte E. and Mary A.C. Ely Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1998/04/30
Description:
This series contains more than one hundred
photographs and post cards, many of them undated
and unidentified. Particularly notable images
are photographs of the Elys and their school in
Bitlis. Other photographs are of scenes in
Bitlis and elsewhere in Turkey and of Armenians
in the region, including orphans and refugees.
This series also includes photographs of
buildings and historic sites in England and
Europe, probably dating from the Ely's travels in
1865-1866, and three cyanotypes of buildings at
Mount Holyoke College, printed on cloth.
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