19th Century Steinbeck Family Papers

This collection consists of letters, diaries and other documents from the Steinbeck family. The materials document their experiences as missionaries in Palestine and their experiences during the Civil War in America.

Dispatches from China: Letters and Diaries of Stuart & Hummel families

These diaries and letters document the Stuart and Hummel families' life and work in China as Methodist missionaries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There are travel diaries of Mildred Hummel (China, Europe, Egypt, and America). There are also diaries and notebooks of Arthur...

Pacific Grove Retreat Association

The Pacific Grove Retreat Association Minute Book documents the founding meetings, beginning July, 1875, of the Methodist Ministers and prominent lay persons who met at San Francisco’s Howard Avenue Methodist Church to form a coastal Retreat Association known today as Pacific Grove, California. ...