Matthew Tyson Yates Papers

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      <abstract id="aspace_3372d96c3a2e181f7c6888237efac581">Matthew Tyson Yates was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (1845) and was appointed as the first Southern Baptist missionary to China from North Carolina, serving from 1846 to 1888. His papers consist of biographical information, correspondence, photographs of Yates, wife Eliza, and daughter Annie, clippings, and related materials.</abstract>
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      <p>Matthew Tyson Yates was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (1845) and was appointed as the first Southern Baptist missionary to China from North Carolina, serving from 1846 to 1888.</p>
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      <p>His papers consist of biographical information, correspondence with family and friends dated 1846-1888, a letter from F. Catherine Bryan, biographer, in 1950, an undated pamphlet titled <title render="doublequote"><part>Our Central China Mission</part></title>, an arithmetic textbook used by Yates, clippings, photographs of Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Yates and their daughter Annie Yates, his birthplace, and William and Mary (Yates's sister) Norris, a drawing of Yates from the 1934 Wake Forest College <title render="italic"><part>Howler</part></title>, and an article on <persname><part>Eliza Moring Yates</part></persname>.</p>
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      <p>Matthew Tyson Yates Papers (MS126), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.</p>
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