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Sources consulted for the biography of:Lydia Mary Fay (ca. 1804–1878)
Primary Sources
- Age 46 on August 15 and birthplace of Vermont in Census, Essex Co., 1850, United States Census Schedules, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Fay's correspondence in:
- Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, China Records (18351951), Archives of the Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas
- Charles Backus Dana Papers, Natchez Trace Collection, Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin
- Church Missionary Society Archive, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England
- DeButts Family Papers, 1784–1962 Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia
- Fay's reports from China in:
- Godey's Lady's Book 46 (1853): 466
- New York Observer 47 (1 Apr. 1869): 98
- Spirit of Missions 23 (1858): 339342; 37 (1872): 136138; 39 (1874): 189193, 389392, 435437, 571572, 633634; 41 (1876): 4749, 422424 (quotation on 422423); 42 (1877): 411412; 43 (1878): 278, 316317
- Lydia Mary Fay, The Marriage of the Emperor of China . . . (1872)
Secondary Sources
- Ella Rodman Church, "Life of Lydia Mary Fay," Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine 99 (1879): 530533
- Mrs. J. T. [Annie Ryder] Gracey, Eminent Missionary Women (1898), 6670
- Annette B. Richmond, The American Episcopal Church in China (1907), 21, 41, 47, 53, 7071, 136, 150, 154
- Arthur R. Gray and Arthur M. Sherman, The Story of the Church in China (1913), 5557, 81
Obituaries
- Shanghai North-China Herald and Supreme Court and Consular Circular, October 17, 1878
- Alexandria Southern Churchman, November 28, 1878
- memorials in Spirit of Missions 44 (1879): 3640, 120121
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