Special Collections & Archives

Arthur Raymond Gallimore (1885-1955) and his wife Gladys S. Gallimore (1886- ) served as foreign missionaries in China on behalf of the Southern Baptist Convention from June 6, 1918, until 1947. Gallimore was an alumnus of Wake Forest College and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. This collection consists of biographical information, Gallimore's writings, autographs of Kentucky Baptist leaders, Wake Forest College and expansion clippings, a Wake Forest College scrapbook album, and postcard-sized photographs of the campus and its students.

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.

Sophie Lanneau was a graduate of Meredith College, and a teacher and Southern Baptist Convention educational missionary to China, 1907 to 1951. She founded the Wei Ling Girls' Academy in Soochow (1911) and was interned by the Japanese in 1942. She was repatriated to the United States in 1943 but returned to China in 1946, where she remained until 1950. Her papers consist of biographical information; correspondence files; educational files; financial and legal documents; her writings and other literary productions; talks given; Chinese literary materials; literary productions of others; notebooks; pictorial materials; printed materials and certificates; her professional files; a scrapbook; and artifacts. These materials relate to her missionary and teaching career as founder of the Wei Ling Girl's Academy in Soochow [now Wusien], China.