General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Archives

Content Description The Adriel D. Chilson Collection consists of three parts: Nels P. Neilson, John G. Matteson, and various other writers concentrating primarily on Seventh-day Adventist activity in Brazil and South America. The collection appears to be truly a collection put together by Mr. Chilson. Parts 1 and 3 have some connection in that most of the writers were at one time in South America. Part 2 is derived from Chilson’s interest in Matteson.This collection includes 25 letters sent or received...

Content Description The collection consists entirely of correspondence between Church administrators and other leaders between 1888 and 1905. Included are large amounts of letters to or from Arthur G. Daniells, William C. White, G. A. Irwin, and O. A. Olsen, among others.

Content Description Correspondence by E. A. Sutherland to W. C. White and Ellen G. White

Content Description The materials in this collection were gathered by the author for the purpose of writing the Latin America books. They consist of correspondence, transcribed interviews, photocopied articles and statistics from Adventist periodicals and General Conference Archives (GCA) about the work of the Seventh-day Adventist church in Latin America. Much of the materials, such as denominational statistics and Review and Herald articles, are now available online.This...

Content Description The collection is an admixture of documents and other materials collected from various sources–see Provenance below. There are a few personal documents, a goodly run of diaries, a scattering of letters, and a couple of article manuscripts. The diaries form the single most extensive body of materials in this collection. There are 54 diaries each covering a calendar year. They begin in 1856, when John was age 24 and discouraged to the point of leaving the ministry and moving to Iowa to farm. They...