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Thomas, James A. James Augustus Thomas Papers, 1905-1941; (bulk 1914-1940).

Title: James Augustus Thomas Papers, 1905-1941; (bulk 1914-1940).

The bulk of the collection is comprised of correspondence and other papers (chiefly 1914-1940), relating primarily to Thomas' relationship with a variety of organizations concerned with the Orient and Far Eastern affairs. Includes information on U.S. economic penetration of China, marketing of U.S. cigarettes in the Orient, the British-American Tobacco Co., U.S.-Chinese trade, domestic policies and financial development in China, political developments in the Far East, American foreign policy in the Orient (1920s and 1930s), and Thomas' efforts to bring Chinese students to Duke University and other North Carolina institutions. Additions to the collection include three letters pertaining or written to son, Jimmy, by his parents, copies of photographs, a typed transcript, and three audiocassettes of an oral interview (by Duke Professor Emeritus Richard Watson) with Dorothy Q. Thomas, widow of James A. Thomas. Interview topics include her life in China and Petrograd (now St. Petersburg, Russia) where she taught school briefly; and the social life and customs in Bejing and Shanghai after she married Thomas in 1922. There are also negative microfilm reels of the series "China Through Western Eyes: Part 3, The Papers of J.A. Thomas c.1905-1923." Correspondents include Herbert Hoover, Robert Lansing, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Sun Yat-sen.

ArchivalResource: 29,247 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20188621 View

Duke Memorial. Duke Memorial records, 1929-1936.

Title: Duke Memorial records, 1929-1936.

The collection mainly consists of financial documents, as well as general correspondence, minutes, and proposals and suggestions. Major topics include the construction of Memorial Chapel and the sarcophagi within, the purchase of Duke Homestead, and the financing of the James B. Duke Statue. Major correspondents include James A. Thomas, W.W. Flowers, and Alex H. Sands.

ArchivalResource: 4000 items (4.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53906272 View

Flowers, Robert Lee. Robert Lee Flowers records, 1891-1968.

Title: Robert Lee Flowers records, 1891-1968.

Collection includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings, bound volumes, and other printed material. Major subjects include higher education in the United States, the role of universities during World War II, the assistance of displaced scholars during World War II, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and organizations in which Flowers served, including the Duke Endowment, the Durham Chamber of Commerce, the Durham and Southern Railway Company, Greensboro College, North Carolina Central University, the Methodist Orphanage, the Oxford Orphanage, and the Lincoln Hospital. Major correspondents include William Hayes Ackland, George Garland Allen, Alexander Boyd Andrews, John Fletcher Bruton, Homer Hasenlue Dubs, Benjamin Newton Duke, William Washington Flowers, Allen Howard Godbey, Edward R. Murrow, Edward Hines Page, William Robertson Perkins, Alexander Hamilton Sands, Jr., James Augustus Thomas, and Horace Trumbauer.

ArchivalResource: 21000 items (22.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53906098 View

Thomas, James A. Papers, 1900-1985.

Title: Papers, 1900-1985.

Copies of photographs and typed transcript and three audiocassettes of an oral interview (by Duke Professor Emeritus Richard Watson) with Dorothy Q. Thomas, widow of James A. Thomas. Topics of the interview include: her life in China; Petrograd (now Leningrad, Soviet Union) where she taught school briefly; and the social life and customs in Bejing and Shanghai after she married Thomas in 1922.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41546398 View

Thomas, James A. Letters, 1861-1864.

Title: Letters, 1861-1864.

Photocopies of typed transcripts of letters to Thomas's family. Letters recount his escape and travel to Louisville; his recapture; and his imprisonment at Camp Morton in Indianapolis, Sept. 1863. He also discussed the anti-Union sentiments in Indiana and Illinois.

ArchivalResource: 19 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49324293 View