1920's LELAND & MARGARET CAMP. 1500+pp Archive of Baptist Missionary Correspondence. Friend C. T. Studd!

An absolutely incredible 1500+pp archive of journals and correspondence from pioneer American Baptist missionaries to Africa - contemporaries and brief co-workers with C. T. Studd!  The present grouping reflects one of the finest missionary correspondence archives we have seen come to market in many years, and from an important American Baptist missionary. The authors of the letters are Mr. and Mrs. Leland and Margaret Camp, the items almost entirely composed by the latter. The Camps were among the very first missionaries to begin working with the then brand-new Baptist Mid-Missions, founded by the indefatigable William Haas in 1920. Haas, a committed Baptist, originally sailed for Africa to work with the inter-denominational African Inland Mission. On his return, he found that many of the Baptist denominations had begun to forsake the “fundamentals,” so he created the Baptist Mid-Missions Agency as a safe haven for conservative Baptist missionaries. It was a true pioneering agency fo