A MISSIONARY IN BURMA AND INDIA

LETTERS HOME: ALVINA IRENE ROBINSON, 1875-1963

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1894Feb28Pg1

Teaching offer from Allerton, Iowa

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1901Aug17Pg1

Grades from Simpson College

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1901May24Pg1

News clipping, wife of Archer Robinson (brother of Moody Sr.)

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1906Apr12Pg1

Letter of recommendation from her Latin teacher

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1906Jan3Pg1

Latin grades from Simpson College

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1907AboutHerselfPg1

Undated, probably about 1907, why she wants to be Missionary

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1907Nov25Pg1

First impressions of Rangoon, Burma

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1908AboutPg1

Postcard to Mildred, local transportation (undated)

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1908Jul16Pg1

News clipping, written by Alvina about Burma

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1908Jul16Reformat1

(Reformatted version of above clipping, more readable?)

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1908Sep23Pg1

News from home, her bed's mosquito netting

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1909Jul22Pg1

Boarding school, boarders, her responsibilities.

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1910Dec8Pg1

School tests, the Methodist school, Gertie's family

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1910Nov5Pg1

Parents move to California, brother Earl, shopping

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1910Oct29Pg1

Managing alone, parents' planned move to California

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1911Jan9aPg1

To brother Earl, riding bikes, living in California

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1911Mar13Pg1

Teaching Latin, pox, plague, cholera, parents move to California

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1911Mar4Pg1

Letter from Leo, birth of Erma, sick children, diphtheria, smallpox

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1911May18Pg1

Her bicycle, riding in rain, crash, flat tire.

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1912Aug17Pg1

On ship Bay of Bengal, temp assignment in India (Bangalore)

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1912Jan29Pg1

Worrying about mother, her 37th birthday

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1912Jun8Pg1

Robbery at school, she is president of local W.C.T.U.

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1912Mar4Pg1

Letter to brother, Earl

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1912May2Pg1

Getting a telephone

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1915Aug4Pg1

To Gertie: On boat Rangoon river, buying gun, Velma & Erma

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1917Nov3Pg1

Closing school, a "priest burning" , Lazy/happy Burmese

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1917Oct30Pg1

Year is a guess: On Being an unmarried missionary

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1918AboutBurmaPg1

Undated, from a friend talking about closing Burma Operation

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1918AboutPg1

Undated, discusses Hindu burial, the Taj Majal

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1918Apr7Pg1

War in Europe, sick child, man-powered ceiling fan, plumbing

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1918Dec14Pg1

Influenza after effects, toothache, needs glasses, end of war

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1918Dec4Pg1

Influenza, deaths, mass graves, taking in a child

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1918Feb10Pg1

Arriving in India, people, accomodations

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1918Feb17Pg1

Taking care of babies, deaths, sending dresses to Gertie's daughters

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1918Feb24Pg1

Widows, wages, selling vegetables

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1918IndiaPg1

Undated, probably from India

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1918Jul9Pg1

From India, ignorant and wicked people, beating, language

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1918May19Pg1

Caring for a baby, starving people

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1918Oct6aPg1

Has 7 children in her bungalow, poverty, war, language

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1918Oct6Pg1

Local poverty, wages, sickness

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1918Oct8Pg1

(Unsure of year) Travels in India, heathens, ignorance

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1918Sep29Pg1

Influenza, war, malaria

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1919Aug26Pg1

In India: Death of servant

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1919Jan5Pg1

To her niece: About the people, crops, clothing

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1919Mar2Pg1

Famine, but influenza is gone

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1919Mar9Pg1

From sister Ollie, about death of mother Ellen (Aten) Robinson

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1919Oct5Pg1

Her babies

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1920Dec9Pg1

Work, upcoming furlow home

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1960AboutAgingPg1

Undated: Her worries about her health and memory.

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