Elizabeth Curtis Wright papers
Series: Women's lives
Published: 1919
Language: eng
Format: [microform],
Subjects: Correspondence; Missions; Women missionaries; Women Christian educators; Methodist women; American Missions; Christianity; Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese Prisoners and prisons; American Personal narratives; Maps; Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Description: Collection comprises personal memoirs, biographical information, literary manuscripts, correspondence, and a map relating to American Presbyterian missionary Elizabeth Curtis Wright and her work as a teacher in China, Korea, and the United States, from 1919 to 1973. Collection includes Wright's memoirs, published in 1973. Manuscripts include drafts of a work titled History of the missionary church in China, one of which is written on the backs of memorials to foreign missionary women and newsletters recounting church activities. Other manuscripts include Notes on Sara Perkins, a work on the imprisonment of Sara Perkins by the communist government of China, as well as a short story titled Chang su Hsien's winter vacation. The map is a commentary on welfare in Beijing titled Welfare map of Peiping.
Notes: Cite as: Elizabeth Curtis Wright papers, A 301, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Or.

Also available in print from the University of Oregon University Archives.

See the following collections in Special Collections and University Archives for more information on women missionaries in Tianjin, China during this period: Myra Snow papers (A 186), Myra Anna Jaquet papers (A 180), Edith Schufeldt papers (A 208). See also Elsie Reik papers (A 166), Edith Simister papers (A 183), and Clara Dyer papers (A 198).

American Elizabeth Curtis Wright was a Presbyterian missionary in China, primarily Tianjin, Anhui Province, and Beijing, from the early 1920s through the 1950s. From 1941 to 1943, Wright was interned by the Japanese as a prisoner of war in Wei Xian, Shandong Sheng, China. She retired from missionary work in the early 1950s.

Collection materials are in English.