Joseph Clare papers

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 MS 1094
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1910-1998
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English Russian
  • Physical Description
    • 101 ff., audio-cassette, video-cassette, manuscript, typescript, printed, and photographs Includes a tablecloth

Scope and Content

Comprises documents, sermons, lectures, photographs, and personal memoirs of Reverend J. Clare's life in Russia during the First World War and Revolution; also, memoirs of Merry Clare Yoakum, his daughter, and photographs of her exhibition "Russian childhood memories" in the USA in 1998

Administrative / Biographical History

Reverend Joseph Clare was minister of the British-American Congregational Church in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg/Petrograd

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

The gift of Merry Yoakum, April and June 1989, September 1990, June 1991, April 1998

Note

In English, Russian

Other Finding Aids

A more detailed listing of the contents is available in the Leeds Russian Archive online catalogue http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/lra/index.htm