Descriptive Summary
Creator(s)
Collection open for research
Biographical Note / Administrative History
William Hervie Dobson was born in Vineland, N.J. In 1897 he was sent as a surgeon to the Yeungkong Station, South China Mission. The first Presbyterian missionary to learn the Yeungkong dialect, Dobson worked in the Canton region as evangelist, surgeon, and teacher until 1940 when he was honorably retired from the mission field. Married in 1899 to Effie W. Moore (d.1916), at the time of his death Dobson was survived by his two sons: Hervey and Connelly.
Collection Overview
The collection consists of correspondence, daybooks, photographs and one folder of miscellaneous material. The bulk of the collection covers the early years of Dobson's work in the Yeungkong mission and at the Forman Memorial Hospital (1897-1904). The correspondence is highly descriptive and contains Dobson's first impressions of China as well as narrative accounts of the daily life and duties of a missionary doctor. Included in this series is an account of the Boxer Rebellion. The majority of the photographs in the collection cover the period of 1901-1904.
Organization and Arrangement
SERIES I: Correspondence, 1893-1904, Box 1 Folders 2-11
Arranged chronologically by year.
SERIES II: Daybooks, ca.1897-1898, Box 1 Folder 12
SERIES III: Photographs, ca. 1897-1964 Box 1 Folder 13; Box 2 Folders 1-4
Arranged chronologically by year.
SERIES IV: Miscellany, 1897-ca.1940, Box 2 Folder 5
Administrative Information
Gift of Ann Fa'alogo, 7-85.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared: 1986
Janet Brice Bishop, Assistant Archivist
Catalog Headings
Collection Inventory
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1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 204 | |
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| SERIES I: Correspondence, 1893-1904 | |
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1 | 2 | 1893-1896 | |
| 3 | 1897 | |
| 4 | 1897 | |
| 5 | 1898 | |
| 6 | 1898-1899 | |
| 7 | 1899 | |
| 8 | 1900 | |
| 9 | 1901-1902 | |
| 10 | 1903 | |
| 11 | 1904 | |
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| SERIES II: Daybooks, ca.1897-1898 | |
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1 | 12 | ca.1897-1898 | |
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| SERIES III: Photographs, ca.1897-1963 | |
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1 | 13 | ca.1897-1904 | |
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2 | 1 | 1901-ca.1904 | |
| 2 | ca.1935-1940 | |
| 3 | 1963 | |
| 4 | n.d. | |
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| SERIES IV: Miscellany, 1898-ca. 1940 | |
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| 5 | 1898-ca.1940 |