Dr Ida Scudder Author:Dorothy Clarke Wilson In 1949 the Board of Missions of the Methodist Church sent Mrs. Wilson to India to gather material for a novel on missions, and her knowledge of and interest in that country that grew out of that trip prompted her to undertake a biography of Dr. Ida Scudder. For this project she returned to India in 1957, established herself at Vellore, the hom... more »e of Dr. Scudder's medical center, and from there traveled widely through the south of India gathering first-hand material for her book.« less