Elizabeth Russell contributed extensively to Methodist Episcopal periodicals. Articles and letters written by Russell can be found in theMinutes of the Methodist Episcopal Women's Conference in Japan (yokohama: Japan Publishing Agency; Fukuin Printing Company; various publishers) and, after 1898, in the Minutes of the Woman's Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in South Japan (n.p.); in Tidings from Japan (Tokyo: David S. Spencer,1898–1906);and in Heathen Woman's Friend (Boston: Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church, vols. 1–27, May 1869–December 1895), after 1896 titled Woman's Missionary Friend (January 1896–December 1940).
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Minutes of the Methodist Episcopal Women's Conference in Japan and Tidings from Japan are located in the Aoyama Gakuin University Archives in Tokyo, Japan; the Minutes of the Woman's Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in South Japan in Kwassui Gakuin's Elizabeth Russell Collection in Nagasaki, Japan; and Heathen Woman's Friend, Woman's Missionary Friend, and Tidings from Japan in the United Methodist Archives at Drew University in Madison, N.J.Heathen Woman's Friend and Woman's Missionary Friend can also be found in microform at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
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Sources directly relating to Elizabeth Russell's life can be found in the Russell Collection at Kwassui Gakuin in Nagasaki, Japan. The Russell Collection houses Russell's original journal (and a typescript), copies and typescripts of her letters, Russell's personal library, census records, travel documents, and photographs, among other materials pertaining to her life and work. The collection also holds an unpublished article by retired Kwassui teacher Patricia McCreary, “Realms of Glory: The Life of Elizabeth Russell” (1992), which was informed by interviews with the descendants of Russell's nieces and nephews. The Nagasaki City Library houses bound volumes of the English-language newspaper of Russell's day, the Rising Sun and Nagasaki Express, later named simply Nagasaki Express.
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Finally, some pamphlets were printed by the Methodist Episcopal Women's Foreign Missionary Society pertaining to the life of Elizabeth Russell. These include Elizabeth Russell, Pioneer Days in My Beloved Japan (Boston: Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, n.d.); Mrs. F. I. Johnson, The One Who Went and the One She Found (Boston: Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, 1929); MerrillBessie F., Adventures in Faith: Elizabeth Russell (Boston: Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, n.d.); and Helen Couch, Elizabeth Russell: Pioneer of Higher Education for Japanese Women (Cincinnati, Ohio: Methodist Church, Board of Missions and Church Extension, Woman's Division of Christian Service, n.d. [published after 1945]).
