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Bronislaw Malinowski papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 19
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts of writings and lectures, fieldwork notebooks, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers of Bronislaw Malinowski, cultural anthropologist, teacher, and author. These materials reflect in some detail various aspects of Malinowski's research and other professional work in the areas of cultural anthropology and ethnobiology as well as his professional and personal associations with anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists in Europe,...
Dates:
1869-1946, bulk 1914-1939
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
John Hall Paxton papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 629
Abstract:
Correspondence, writings, photographs and printed materials of John Hall Paxton, American foreign service officer. The papers reflect primarily Paxton's service in China from 1925 to 1949, broken only by a year in Teheran in 1943. He made a dramatic escape from China (1949) and returned to the United States. He broadcast for the Voice of America, and returned as Consul to Isfahan, Iran in 1951, where he died in 1953. His papers include reports on Chinese economic and political conditions,...
Dates:
1920-1961
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
William Winston Pettus papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 786
Abstract:
Correspondence, diaries, writings, and memorabilia of William Winston Pettus, surgeon at the Hsiang-Ya Hospital of the Yale-China Association in Changsha, China. His letters to his parents, beginning in 1928, report on his undergraduate life at Yale and later on medical school. After 1940, when he returned to China, his letters discuss his day-to-day activities as a doctor in wartime at the hospital in Changsha. The writings include diaries and drafts of unpublished articles. Also in the...
Dates:
1928-1945
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Warren Bartlett Seabury papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 790
Abstract:
Correspondence, essays and memorabilia of Warren Bartlett Seabury, a missionary in China who helped plan and organize the Yale Foreign Missionary Society. Correspondence with his family (1904-1907) and reports on his work for the Society and the founding of the Yali Middle School are included. Among his correspondents are Harlan Page Beach, Edward Bliss Reed. John P. Rice and Arthur C. Williams.
Dates:
1901-1936
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Henry Lewis Stimson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 465
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, letter books, speeches, articles, letters to the editor, statements prepared for presentation to Congress and substantial subject files with clippings, printed matter, reports, memoranda and photographs related to Henry Stimson's various public offices. While the official records of Stimson's service (as Secretary of War under President Taft, Secretary of State under Herbert Hoover and as Secretary of War in the cabinets of Presidents Roosevelt and...
Dates:
1846-1966
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Harold Phelps Stokes papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 645
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, memoranda, notes, writings, clippings, and subject files documenting the personal life and professional career of Harold Phelps Stokes. His interests in United States foreign policy and domestic politics, the Alger Hiss case, the Paris Peace Conference, New York City politics and government, prison reform, and journalism are documented. Stokes corresponded with many prominent American political and social figures.
Dates:
1908-1969
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Richard Christian Thurnwald papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 494
Abstract:
Correspondence, writings, printed material and miscellanea relating to Thurnwald's foreign expeditions, teaching positions, and literary works.
Dates:
1895-1936
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
John Lawrence Thurston papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 493
Abstract:
The general corrspondence of John Lawrence Thurston, missionary in China and active member of the Yale Foreign Missionary Society, makes up the major portion of these papers. The main topics are his work in China, including his interest in the Yale Missionary Band and the organization of the Yale Foreign Missionary Society. Major correspondents are Harlan Page Beach, Henry W. Luce, Edward B. Reed, Warren B. Seabury, Anson Phelps Stokes and Arthur C. Williams. His scanty family correspondence...
Dates:
1894-1956
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
John Quillin Tilson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1132
Abstract:
Correspondence, speeches, travel diaries, and documents relating to John Q. Tilson's public life. The diary of his trip to Europe in 1925 was kept while studying munitions for a report to Calvin Coolidge. Another diary reports on a trip to the Orient in 1927. Correspondence reflects his service in the Connecticut National Guard and his connection with Yale Law School. He lectured there on parliamentary law from 1930 until his death, and papers from this course are also in the collection. Of...
Dates:
1888-1956
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
William Weldon Watson Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 828
Abstract:
The papers reflect William W. Watson's career as a physicist and include correspondence, subject files, writings, and reports on professional conferences and writings, largely for the years 1950 to 1963. Best documented is his work as science advisor to the Philippine government, his involvement with the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, and his participation on the Atomic Energy for Connecticut Committee.
Dates:
1924-1983
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Samuel Wells Williams family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 547
Summary:
The papers include correspondence (comprising over half of the collection), manuscripts of Samuel Wells Williams's Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language, themes and lecture notes by Frederick Wells Williams, diaries, newspaper clippings, articles on China, maps, and pictures. The bulk of the correspondence relates to S. W. Williams, missionary, diplomat, and sinologue. The period between 1845 and 1855 has extensive correspondence with missionaries and...
Dates:
1809-1983, bulk 1809-1941
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Arthur Frederick and Mary Clabaugh Wright papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 876
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and subject files from Arthur Frederick Wright's teaching career at Stanford University and at Yale University, his research on Chinese history, and his work for the Association for Asian Studies and the American Council of Learned Societies' Committee on Studies of Chinese Civilization. The papers also include personal correspondence of the Wright and Clabaugh families. There is minimal material documenting Mary Clabaugh Wright's...
Dates:
1928-1982, bulk 1951-1977
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives