He was a Seventh-day Adventist minister who served the church for nearly forty years in China, and helped to establish the China Training Institute at Chiaotoutseng, Kiangsu. The collection contains diaries covering the period 1943-1945, written as letters, but never sent, to his wife Ethel, who was in the United States. There are also tapes of interviews recorded by C. Mervyn Maxwell at Anderson's bedside. Arrangement The John Peter Anderson Collection is referred to by volume numbered in chronological sequence.
Tapes are both originals and copies.
The John Peter Anderson Collection was given to the Adventist Heritage Center during the period 1973 to 1977 by Mr. Anderson. All records in this collection are open and available for research. Inventory Bx 1 vol 1 1943-1944. 1 vol 2 1945. Originals Bx 2 fld 1 1943-1944.