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Call No.: 84-M159
Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: Ida Sophia Scudder, 1870-1960
Title: Addenda, ca.1897-1976
Quantity: 1+1/2 file boxes, 2 folio folders, 1 folio folder, 5 folders and 2 volumes of photographs
Abstract: Addenda to the papers (MC 205) of Ida Sophia Scudder, medical missionary and physician.

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BIOGRAPHY

ISS was a medical missionary in India and the founder of the Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore, South India. For further biographical information on ISS and the Scudder family, see the inventory for Ida Sophia Scudder, MC 205, and Notable American Women, The Modern Period (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984).

SCOPE AND CONTENT

This collection complements MC 205 and contains similar types of material, including correspondence, writings, photographs, guest and address books, and printed material concerning ISS and CMCH. There are also tributes and an album dedicated to Gertrude Dodd, ISS's colleague, who gave generously to the college and who served as college bursar and registrar.

In June 1984, Ida B. Scudder gave other papers and photographs to the Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore and to the Scudder Association. A listing of these papers may be found in #1.

There is additional material at the Schlesinger Library; see Ida Sophia Scudder Papers, 1843-1976 (MC 205).

CONTAINER LIST

• Box 1: 1-9, 18v-22v
• Box 2: 23v-28v

INVENTORY

• 1. Biographical material re: ISS, 1950-1960, 1973, n.d.; re: IBS, 1966; also information concerning theseaddenda; lists of Scudder papers donated by IBS to Dodd Memorial Library of Vellore Christian Medical College and to the Scudder Association.

• 2-4: Correspondence
  • 2. ISS, 1937, 1948-1959, 1972, n.d.; includes lettersfrom Edwina Mountbatten, Jawaharlal Nehru; Bible class notes, 1948; and PHOTOGRAPH of ISS on card.
  • 3-4: Re: death of ISS
    • 3. 1960; includes TL from Ellsworth Bunker.
    • 4. 1960-1963; also tributes to ISS, 1960, 1976.

• 5. Printed material re: death of ISS, 1960.
  See also 9f+.

• 6. Writings of ISS including speech, 1930(?); annual reports of CMC, ms., 1935-1937; article, 1911; other printed material re: CMC, 1951, 1967.

• 7. Certificates and tributes re: ISS, 1899-1970 (scattered), n.d.
  See also 8f+.

• 8f+. Tributes to Sophia Weld Scudder (ISS's mother), 1911, 1922; ISS's medical degree and license, 1899; tributes to Gertrude Dodd, 1922, 1938; tributes to ISS and GD, 1942; certificate of Scudder Memorial Association, n.d.

• 9f+. Clippings re: ISS, 1944, 1960; pedigree of ISS's dog.

• 10-17f: Photographs.
  FILED IN PHOTOGRAPH DRAWER.
  • 10. Album: ISS's house, "Hilltop," at Kodaikanal, 1920(?)
  • 11. Enclosures from #10, 1959, n.d.
  • 12v. Album: holidays at Kodaikanal, n.d.
  • 13. Enclosures from #12v, n.d.
  • 14v. Album: "Birthday Greeting to Miss G. Dodd from her friends," 1938
  • 15. Enclosures from #14v
  • 16. Edwina Mountbatten; Eileen Joyce; ISS, ca.1897, 1899, n.d.; with Billy Graham, n.d.; bust of ISS, 1961; Sophia Weld Scudder, n.d.
  • 17f. ISS with Nehru and others, 1956, n.d.; also Sri Prakasa.

• 18v-26v: Scudder family guest books
  • 18v. 1908-1929
  • 19v. 1923-1963
  • 20v. 1930-1937, 1963-1970
  • 21v. 1938-1954
  • 22v. 1946
  • 23v. 1954-1962
  • 24v. 1963-1968
  • 25v. 1968-1969
  • 26v. 1970

• 27v-28v: Address books
  • 27v. ISS, n.d.
  • 28v. IBS, n.d.

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