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William Ernest Hocking papers

Title: William Ernest Hocking papers

Correspondence of Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking, his wife, Agnes Hocking, the Hocking family, and others.

ArchivalResource: 144 linear feet (110 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01777 View

William Woodville Rockhill papers

Title: William Woodville Rockhill papers

Papers of American scholar-diplomat William Woodville Rockhill.

ArchivalResource: 18 linear feet (35 boxes, 6 card file boxes, and 8 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00411/catalog View

Nelson T. Johnson Papers, 1916-1955, (bulk 1922-1954)

Title: Nelson T. Johnson Papers

U.S. assistant secretary of state, minister and ambassador to China and minister to Australia. Personal correspondence, memoranda of conversations and engagement books, speeches and writings, and other material chiefly relating to Johnson’s diplomatic service in China, Australia, and the Far East.

ArchivalResource: 22,400 items; 70 containers plus 5 oversize; 21.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012128 View

James M. McHugh papers, 1930-1965.

Title: James M. McHugh papers, 1930-1965.

Included are military correspondence and intelligence reports, personal correspondence, diaries, including a journal McHugh kept on his trip over the Burma Road (Dec. 1938-Jan. 1939), photographs (ca. 1300 items, many not precisely identified, of wartime figures, and colleagues and friends), manuscripts of articles and books, and printed items.

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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM02770.xml View

Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966. Papers, 1681-1966 (bulk 1900-1960)

Title: Lewis Gannett papers, 1681-1966 (inclusive) 1900-1960 (bulk).

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, journals, notebooks, legal and business papers, memorabilia, photos, and other papers, together with Gannett family papers. Includes correspondence of Gannett's grandfather and father, Unitarian clergymen Ezra Stiles Gannett of Boston and William Channing Gannett; 91 letters, 1796-1817, from Gannett's great-grandfather Caleb Gannett to John Mico Gannett, and journals of his grandmother Anna Tilden Gannett.

ArchivalResource: 51 boxes (25.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00670/catalog View

Kellogg, Frank B. (Frank Billings), 1856-1937. Frank B. Kellogg papers, 1890-1942 [microform].

Title: Frank B. Kellogg papers, 1890-1942 [microform].

Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, background materials, clippings, memorabilia, and other papers of this U.S. senator from Minnesota (1917-1923), ambassador to Great Britain (1923-1925), secretary of state (1925-1929), and judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice (World Court) (1930-1935). Besides reflecting the issues and activities associated with these positions, the papers also provide considerable information about state and national Republican party politics, and about U.S. politics in general. Lesser amounts of material document his organizational memberships and activities, business affairs, career as St. Paul (Minn.) lawyer, and family matters. None of his official dispatches as ambassador or secretary of state are present. Papers from Kellogg's service as ambassador provide information on the European military, diplomatic, social, and economic scene; revision of the schedule of World War I reparations payments by Germany; and the official and social life of an ambassador.

ArchivalResource: 24.0 cubc feet (24 boxes) and 54 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313842379 View

Charles B. McVay Papers, 1896-1950, (bulk 1927-1930)

Title: Charles B. McVay Papers 1896-1950 (bulk 1927-1930)

Naval officer. Official and general correspondence, printed matter, and other material relating to McVay's duties as commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet.

ArchivalResource: 900 items; 3 containers plus 1 oversize; 1.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011179 View

Nelson T. Johnson Papers, 1916-1955, (bulk 1922-1954)

Title: Nelson T. Johnson Papers

U.S. assistant secretary of state, minister and ambassador to China and minister to Australia. Personal correspondence, memoranda of conversations and engagement books, speeches and writings, and other material chiefly relating to Johnson’s diplomatic service in China, Australia, and the Far East.

ArchivalResource: 22,400 items; 70 containers plus 5 oversize; 21.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012128 View

Montgomery Meigs Taylor Papers, 1890-1935

Title: Montgomery Meigs Taylor Papers 1890-1935

Naval officer and commander-in-chief, Asiatic Fleet. Official and personal correspondence reflecting life in Asia and military records, journals, notebooks, writings, and other papers relating mainly to Taylor’s military career.

ArchivalResource: 1,200 items; 4 containers; 1 linear foot

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012058 View

Harry E. Yarnell Papers, 1909-1958, (bulk 1939-1945)

Title: Harry E. Yarnell Papers 1909-1958 (bulk 1939-1945)

Naval officer. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, reports, articles, printed matter, and miscellaneous papers related to military aspects of United States China policy, reorganization of United States armed forces, naval and military strategy during World War II, and Yarnell’s naval career.

ArchivalResource: 875 items; 3 containers plus 1 classified; 1 linear foot

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007033 View

Johnson, Nelson T. (Nelson Trusler), 1887-1954. The reminiscences of Nelson Trusler Johnson, 1954 [microform].

Title: The reminiscences of Nelson Trusler Johnson, 1954 [microform].

A transcript of Nelson Trusler Johnson's oral history interviews. Johnson discusses his early life, his experiences as a student interpreter for the Consular Service in China, Chinese politics and society, Chinese-American relations, Yale-in-China activities, his service in and preparations for the Washington Conference, and his appointment as an inspection officer in China. Forms part of Columbia University Oral History Collection (Part One).

ArchivalResource: 8 microfiches.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122563200 View

William Woodville Rockhill papers

Title: William Woodville Rockhill papers

Papers of American scholar-diplomat William Woodville Rockhill.

ArchivalResource: 18 linear feet (35 boxes, 6 card file boxes, and 8 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00411/catalog View

Carl Tilden Keller collection concerning Sir Aurel Stein, 1922-1945.

Title: Carl Tilden Keller collection concerning Sir Aurel Stein, 1922-1945.

Papers relating to explorer Sir Aurel Stein, assembled by his friend, Carl Tilden Keller.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01872/catalog View

McHugh, J. M. (James Marshall), 1899-. James M. McHugh papers, 1930-1965.

Title: James M. McHugh papers, 1930-1965.

Included are military correspondence and intelligence reports, family and other personal correspondence, diaries, among them a journal that McHugh kept on his motor trip over the Burma Road (December 1938-January 1939), photographs (ca. 1300 items, many not precisely identified, of wartime figures, and colleagues and friends), manuscripts of articles and books, and printed items. Subjects of the correspondence and reports to 1946 include China in general, the Sino-Japanese War, McHugh's association with or impressions of the Chiangs, T.V. Soong, Ai-Ling Soong (Madame H.H. Kung), and other Chinese public figures, the management of the Bank of China, disputes and rivalries among American interests with contracts for supplying the Chinese Air Force. Other subjects include the bribery of Chinese officials, the administration of Lend-Lease in China, the construction and use of the Burma Road, the bombing of the British gunboat H.M.S. "Sandpiper," the work of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), Japan and the Japanese people, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the activities of William Henry Donald, advisor to the Chiangs, Ambassador Nelson Trusler Johnson, and Clarence Gauss, Vice-President Hyman G. Rickover, General Evans F. Carlson, and General Claire Lee Chennault. After 1946, the letters are primarily analyses of events of national and international importance, such as the civil war in Indo-China and tVietnamese conflict, Soviet-American relations, Sino-Soviet relations, Amcan presidential elections, and the foreign policies of the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations, written to and from various representatives of Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Balfour, Guthrie & Co., including Hugh David MacEwen Barton, David Bosanquet, Michael Alexander Robert Young-Herries, John Henry Keswick, William Johnson Keswick, and Erik Watts; also correspondence with Richard R. Smith, formerly with the British-American Tobacco Company (BAT) in Shanghai, on world affairs and on Smith's life in California. Also, manuscripts and correspondence relating to an article by K.C. Wu (Kuo-chen Wu), former governor of Formosa; and correspondence and articles of McHugh's wife, Maxine Davis, the writer. Other correspondents include Major Ronald Aubry Boone, John H. Bruins, General Evans Fordyce Carlson, General Claire Lee Chennault, Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Mayling Soong), Oscar Sidney Cox, Commander John Marion Creighton, C.D. Culbertson, Lauchlin Currie, William Henry Donald, Herbert B. Elliston, Abijah Upson Fox, Clarence E. Gauss, Robin Gordon. Other correspondents include Major Edward Gillette Hagan, Luther Hartwell Hodges, General Thomas Holcomb, Cordell Hull, Juang P'ing-heng (P.H. Whang), British Ambassador Archibald Clark Kerr, Claire (Lady) Keswick, Val St. J. Killery, Franklin William Knox, John Magruder, Rear Admiral Edward John Marquart, Lieutenant Commander Milton Edward Miles, Sir Geoffrey Alexander Stafford Northcote, Duncan Oppenheim, George M. Schurman, Charles Vincent Sheehan, Edgar Snow, Harold John Timperley, Rear Admiral Kemp Tolley, John Carter Vincent, and Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell.

ArchivalResource: 8.5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64687347 View

Johnson, Nelson T. (Nelson Trusler), 1887-1954,. Oral history interview with Nelson Trusler Johnson, 1954.

Title: Oral history interview with Nelson Trusler Johnson, 1954.

Family background and early life; experiences as student interpreter for Consular Service in China, 1907; Battle of the Concessions, Open Door Policy; Manchuria, 1909-1910; concession railways; Taiping rebellion; Revolution of 1911; Yale-in-China activities; Chinese social life and attitudes, early 1900s; recall to Washington and preparations for the Washington Conference; appointment as inspection officer in China, 1923.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 730 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309739644 View

Kearny, Thomas, 1878-1942. Naval historical collection of Thomas Kearny, 1931-1936.

Title: Naval historical collection of Thomas Kearny, 1931-1936.

Letters from Nelson T. Johnson and Edward C. Wynne and an article by Tingfu F. Tsiang concerning the opening of the ports of China by Lawrence Kearny in 1842-1843.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.1 container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80582245 View

Joseph Clark Grew papers, 1904-1948

Title: Joseph Clark Grew papers

Contains letters, diaries, speeches, essays, transcripts of conversations, photographs, and clippings that cover Grew's entire diplomatic career. Included are minutes; correspondence and memos of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, 1918-1919; Grew's official report to Roosevelt upon his return to the U.S. from Japan, 1942; and a typescript of his book, Ten Years in Japan. "Letters," by far the largest series, are to family members and friends from his various posts overseas, as well as to many professional associates. Two volumes of letters for 1939 were destroyed by enemy action after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

ArchivalResource: 120 volumes and 39 boxes (34 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00366/catalog View