Guide to the B.M. Schlotter and Dorothy Schlotter Correspondence

Descriptive Summary

Title

B.M. Schlotter and Dorothy Schlotter Correspondence

Inclusive Dates

1920-1928

Call Number

RG 463

Creator(s)

Schlotter, B. M. (Bruno Maxwell), 1889-1964.

Schlotter, Dorothy, 1900-1986.

Quantity

1.25 cubic feet (3 boxes)

Language

Materials in English

Restrictions on Access

Collection open for research

Repository

Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516 USA

Biographical Note / Administrative History

Biographical Note

B.M. and Dorothy Schlotter served as missionaries in the Belgian Congo from 1920 to 1928. B.M. Schlotter was born in 1889. He attended Presbyterian College of South Carolina in Clinton, graduating in 1910. In 1915, Schlotter was appointed to the Congo as a missionary for the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Dorothy Chambers Schlotter was the daughter of the Reverend Caleb Wallace Chambers and Emma Daniel Chambers who served as Presbyterian missionaries to the Alabama Coushatta Indians in Polk County, Texas. Dorothy Chambers attended Lexington College in Lexington, Missouri for two years, then transferred to Texas Presbyterian College but was called home after one term to care for her parents. In 1920, while B.M. Schlotter was on furlough in the United States, he and Dorothy Chambers married. After the wedding, the Schlotters sailed for the Congo, working there together at the mission station at Luebo in the Kasai district. In 1928, the couple retired from missionary work and returned to the United States.

Collection Overview

This collection consists of correspondence from B.M. and Dorothy Schlotter to Caleb W. and Emma Chambers, Dorothy Schlotter’s parents. The letters were written between 1920 and 1928, when the couple served as missionaries in the Congo. Most of the letters were sent from the mission station at Luebo. There are also letters sent during furloughs and in transit to and from the field. The letters describe domestic affairs, the work of the mission, visits from other missionaries, visits to other mission stations in the Congo, and the activities of the couple’s son Max. The collection includes typed transcriptions of the majority of the letters. The transcriptions were made by Max W. Schlotter in the mid-1990s.

Organization and Arrangement

Summary of Box Contents

Box 1: Correspondence, 1920-1922

Box 2: Correspondence, 1923-1928

Box 3: Transcriptions of correspondence, 1920-1928

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Received from Max W. Schlotter and James S. Evans II in 2001.

Processing Information

This collection is minimally processed: materials may not have been ordered beyond their original condition. Guide revised in 2009 by Jennifer Barr, Archives Intern.

Preferred Citation

B.M. Schlotter and Dorothy Schlotter Correspondence, RG 463, Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Catalog Headings

The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in the society’s electronic catalog.

Personal Name Subject

Schlotter, B. M. (Bruno Maxwell), 1889-1964.

Schlotter, Dorothy, 1900-1986.

Corporate Subject

American Presbyterian Congo Mission.

Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Executive Committee of Foreign Missions.

Topical Subject

Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.

Women missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.

Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.

Presbyterian Church--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.

Geographic Subject

Congo (Democratic Republic)--Missions--20th century.

Genre-form

Correspondence. aat

Transcripts. aat

Personal Added Name

Schlotter, B. M. (Bruno Maxwell), 1889-1964.

Schlotter, Dorothy, 1900-1986.

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