INVENTORY Series 1. Scrapbook, ca.1884 Box 1 (oversize) Scrapbook, ca. 1884 CD-ROMs (4) of the scrapbook Microfilm of the scrapbook (reference copy see microfilm cabinet, Drawer 1) Researchers are required to use the microfilm reference copy the original scrapbook has been retired from reference use. The CD-ROMs are also available for review. Series 2. Correspondence, 1899-1907, ca. 1910s -1940s, 1963, 1965, 1973-74, 1978, 1990-91, n.d. (13f) Box 2 Correspondence Richards Family letters (re: Erwin H. Richards), 1990-91 [2001/133] Typed and handwritten outline of letters of Erwin Hart Richards, n.d. [2013/010] Correspondence from accession 2013/023 James Edward Duncanson to Dorothy [Richards Reinhardt] and family, 14 March 1926 and 20 April 1926 Erwin H. Richards to Dorothy [Richards] Reinhardt, 20 March 1927 [James Edward] Duncanson to Dorothy [Richards Reinhardt], 29 January 1928 Sallie D. Lawr to Dorothy [Richards] Reinhardt, 2 September 1928 [James Edward] Duncanson to Dorothy [Richards Reinhardt], 14 June 1948 Mittilene Eldred to Dear Mamma, 6 January and 4 February 1963 Helen McClelland to Dorothy [Richards] Reinhardt, 4 April 1965 Helen [Richards Hantower] to Kith and Kin [Erwinʼs grandchildren?], 4 April 1973 Dorothy Richards Reinhardt to Alden and Peggy Fletcher, 28 April 1973, and 13 October 1974 Dr. Herbert Bischoff to Alden Fletcher, 11 January 1978 Box 3 (16mm microfilm) Reel 1. Correspondence, including E.H. Richards, 1899-1907 Reel 2. Correspondence, including Board of Missions (NY), YWCA, Methodist Church, ca. 1910-1940s 6
Series 3. Oral History Recordings, 1979-1994 Box 3 (cont.) Recordings of Alden Fletcherʼs account of the life of Erwin H. Richards and the Richards family, 1979-1994 (12 audio cassettes; #s 1, 3, 6, 8-9, 12-13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 24) Series 4. Geneology, 1859, 1861, 1966-67, 1974, n.d. (3f) Geneology, 1859 and 1861 (copies) Geneology, 1966-67, 1974, n.d. Duncanson Family Tree, n.d. Series 5. Writings and Postcards, 1878, 1882, 1890, 1899, 1902, 1904-05, 1908, 1919, 1923, 1926, 1972, 1991, n.d. Subseries 1. Postcards, n.d. Box 2 South-African Fauna, 3 x 5 color postcards, Series I-V, n.d. Subseries 2. Writings by Erwin H. Richards, 1882, 1890, 1905, 1908 (2f) Report of Erwin H. Richards for the Missionary Herald, March 1882 The Revelation of St. John the Divine, translated into the Tonga Language by the Rev. E.H. Richards, 1890 Papilo ga Banana, 1905 Lines and Lights from Africa, 1908 Subseries 3. Writings by Others, 1878, 1899, 1902, 1904, 1919, 1923, 1926, 1972, 1991, n.d. (cont.) Autobiography of Dorothy Reinhardt (with a typescript copy of a letter from Helen Hantower to Dorothy and David Reinhardt, 26 November 1972), 1972 (2 copies) and another typescript version. Biography of Erwin Richards 1851-1928, by Louise Richards Hantower, 1991 (2 copies) 7
Series 5. Writings and Postcards (cont.) Subseries 3. Writings by Others (cont.) The Wolf Collection: The Relevance and the Relationship to the Richard[s] Collection, by Carolyn White, 1991 Why the black man is black!, n.d. Box 4 New Testament (Natal: Printed for the American Zulu Mission), 1878 Chopi Prayers (Mipaxo ya Mixo ni Minova hi Xilenge), 1899 Pamphlet of the American Bible Society, 1902 Papilo ga Ruti, The Methodist Episcopal Mission, 1904 Tisimu ta Ivangeli (2 copies), published by The Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1908 Outlines of Sheetswa Grammar, by J.A. Persson, 1919 A Wutomi gi Klakukileko, 1923 O Primeiro Livro, by William C. Terril, 1926 A Muvuni wa Baxumayeli (Authorized translation of The Preacherʼs friend ) by Rev. William Hunter, n.d. Book of Luke (Kanga ku lobidwego ku Luka), n.d. Series 6. Photographs, Negatives, Lantern Slides, and Photograph Albums, ca. 1850-1957, n.d. Box 5 Subseries 1. Photographic prints, ca. 1850, 1886-1902, 1904-07, 1909-10, 1913-15, 1917-20, 1922-23, 1937, 1957, n.d. Portraits of E.H. Richards (copy print), ca. 1890, n.d. Bishop Smythe, n.d. Erwin and Carrie Richards at Gikuki, 1899 Carrie Duncanson Richards, 1898-1900 Carrie Duncanson Richards, Dorothy and Erwin Richards, 1886-1902 Seymour Hart, Elyria, Ohio, 1910 Fletcher Family, 1920, n.d. Richards Family, ca. 1850 (copy), 1906-07, 1909, 1913-15, 1918-19, 1923, 1957, n.d. Dorothy Richards, 1901-02, 1904-07, 1915, 1917, 1919-20, n.d. Charles E. Duncanson, ca. 1888 Alden and Alice Waterhouse, 1922, 1937 Mary McClelland Richards, n.d. 8
Series 6. Photographs, Negatives, Lantern Slides, and Photograph Albums (cont.) Subseries 1. Photographic prints (cont.) Box 5 (cont.) Group portrait of Bishop Springer and others, Inhambane, Portuguese East Africa, n.d. Miscellaneous portraits and group photos (most unidentified) (2f) Beira, British South Africa, 1897 Inhambane, Portuguese East Africa, misson school and turbine, 1910, n.d. Kumbini Mission, East Africa, 1886, 1910, n.d. Mission equipment: wells and grinders, n.d. Native African music and dance, n.d. Native African occupations, n.d. Photographs of African villagers, 1910, n.d. Portraits of native Africans, n.d. Places and landscapes in Africa Box 7 Kumbini Mission campus and buildings, panorama photograph, 1910 (3 1/2 x 12 1/8 in.) Subseries 2. Negatives and Lantern Slides, ca. 1880-90, ca. 1920 Box 5 (cont.) Film negative of unidentified group with car, ca. 1920 (3 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.) Box 6 (located in RNG 54, section 1, shelf 2) Glass plate negatives (18) taken in Africa, ca. 1880-90 Glass plate negatives (32) prepared by E.H. Richards in Africa, n.d. [acc. 2013/013] Glass lantern slides (17) taken by E.H. Richards around Inhambane, Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique), ca. 1880-90 Subseries 3. Photograph Albums, ca. 1900-08, 1910, n.d. Box 7 (cont.) Photograph album of E.H. Richards family, ca. 1900-08 Box 8 Photograph album, Natal, South Africa, ca. 1900 Photograph and postcard album, Africa, 1910, n.d. 9
Series 7. Map, ca. 1880-84 Box 7 (cont.) Map of South Africa (fragment) with notations, ca. 1880-84 Series 8. Printerʼs Blocks, n.d. Box 9 E.H. Richards, n.d. Dorothy Richards, n.d. M.M Richards, n.d. Unknown African woman, n.d. 10