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Charles James Morse papers

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Call Number: MS 978
Overview: The largest part of these papers consist of 137 volumes of translations into English, mainly from Japanese, of published works on Japanese and other branches of Oriental art. Also in the papers are two bound volumes of letters from Japan written between 1897 and 1898 by Charles James Morse and his wife, Anne Perkins Woodbridge Morse.
Dates: 1897-1911

Henry Killam Murphy papers

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Call Number: MS 231
Overview: The papers consist of architectural drawings, project files, photographs, correspondence, and ephemera documenting Henry Killam Murphy, particularly in his roles as a founding partner in the New Haven firm Murphy & Dana, and the New York City firm Murphy, McGill & Hamlin.
Dates: 1899-1938

Filmer Stuart Cuckow Northrop papers

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Call Number: MS 627
Overview: The papers contain correspondence, notes and lectures, writings, research materials, publications of other scholars, photographs, journals, and miscellanea documenting the professional career of Filmer Stuart Cuckow Northrop, professor of philosophy and law at Yale University from 1923-1962. The papers primarily document the professional activities and research interests of Northrop, not his Yale teaching career and personal life. The correspondence reflects his professional and research...
Dates: 1914-1992, bulk 1914-1985

William E. and Myra L. Parsons papers

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Call Number: MS 1033
Overview: Correspondence, receipts, and memorabilia connected with a trip to Manila taken by William E. Parsons with his wife, Myra, while working as consulting architect to the Philippine government. Included in the correspondence are accounts by Myra Parson of the trip across the Pacific, descriptions of life in Manila, and comments on the political situation in the Far East.
Dates: 1939

John Hall Paxton papers

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Call Number: MS 629
Overview: 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

William Winston Pettus papers

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Call Number: MS 786
Overview: 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 papers...
Dates: 1928-1945

Christopher Phillips papers

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Call Number: MS 1830
Overview: The papers are comprised of writings, collected ephemera, correspondence, book and article research materials, and audio-visual materials documenting the personal and professional lives of Christopher Phillips.
Dates: 1950-2009, bulk 1950-1991

Theodore Martindale Purdy photographs and papers

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Call Number: MS 1994
Overview: This collection consists of photograph albums, maps, diaries and other materials documenting the worldwide travels of Theodore Martindale Purdy from 1883 to 1931.
Dates: 1883-1931

Hugh Rechnitzer papers

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Call Number: MS 1142
Overview: Chiefly photographs of China, ca. 1900-1905, some made during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. Also photographs of Indonesia, Japan, Java, Singapore, and Vietnam where Rechnitzer traveled on business.There is also a small amount of family correspondence, personal photographs, and memorabilia.
Dates: 1889-1906

Alfred Augustus Reed papers

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Call Number: MS 411
Overview: Correspondence and account books relating to Reed's activities in Batavia, Netherlands East Indies, as a representative of Paine, Stricker & Company of Amsterdam, a trading company. Correspondents include his wife, Caroline Suzette van Son Reed (1825-1861); the Band, Cramerus, Hasselman, van Alphen, and van Braam families, to which he was related by marriage; and Cramerus & Company, Amsterdam. Includes material relating to service and charitable projects in which Reed participated.
Dates: 1845-1865

Right wing pamphlet collection

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Call Number: MS 775
Overview: An artificial collection of pamphlets containing "conservative, reactionary, or right wing" publications on a wide range of topics including: China, anti-communism, Christian groups, race relations, and economics, 1917-2010.
Dates: 1917-2010

S. Dillon Ripley papers

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Call Number: MS 1066
Overview: The papers consist of manuscripts, typescripts, and pre-publication versions of Ripley's writings on birds of Asia and other parts of the world. Also included is film footage of Ripley's 1948 trip to Nepal.
Dates: 1943-1974

Walter Johnson Robb papers

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Call Number: MS 740
Overview: Correspondence, writings, clippings, photographs, financial papers and memorabilia documenting Robb's career in the Philippines as a correspondent and, during World War II, as a lecturer for the Office of War Information (O.W.I.). The writings include manuscripts of articles by Robb on the Philippines, texts of his broadcasts for the O.W.I., and poetry. Among his correspondents are Henry Andreas, Raymond L. Buell, Percy Hill, Sergio Osmeña, Chick Parsons, and Will Rogers, Jr.
Dates: 1919-1969, bulk 1940-1946

Roland Arthur Paul papers

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Call Number: MS 1417
Overview: The papers consist of two, unpublished manuscripts by Roland Paul. Both manuscripts are based on Paul's diaries and notes of his experiences with the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on U.S. Security Agreements, then chaired by Senator Stuart Symington and strongly influenced by Senator William Fulbright. The first, entitled "The Power of Arrogance: The Assault of the Senators on America's Military Commitments, 1969-70," was completed in 1982. It offers a Washington insider's perspective...
Dates: 1982-1983

Walter Keeler Scofield papers

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Call Number: MS 437
Overview: Correspondence, diaries, journals, scrapbooks, photographs and miscellanea relating to Walter Keeler Scofield's career as naval surgeon during the Civil War and his later voyages to Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and the West Indies.
Dates: 1859-1910

Warren Bartlett Seabury papers

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Call Number: MS 790
Overview: 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

William Findlay Shunk papers

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Call Number: MS 449
Overview: Correspondence, journal, speeches and miscellanea of William F. Shunk and his family. Shunk exchanged letters with family members in Pennsylvania while sailing around the world, circa 1846-1849. The sloop, Preble, stopped in many ports, including Cape Verdes, Rio de Janiero, Hawaii, Hong Kong, and Canton, China. Speeches of his father, Francis Rawn Shunk, governor of Pennsylvania, are also included.
Dates: 1828-1903

Henry Ernest Sigerist papers

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Call Number: MS 788
Overview: The papers consist of correspondence, notes, writings, lectures, photographs, and miscellanea documenting the personal life and professional career of Henry E. Sigerist. His student and teaching activities, writings on the history of medicine, concern for public health policies in the United States and Asia, cold war political interests, and other professional and personal concerns are documented in the papers. Sigerist corresponded with several prominent figures in the field of medicine. These...
Dates: 1891-1991

Newman Smyth papers

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Call Number: MS 623
Overview: Correspondence, writings, diaries, sermons, and other papers of Newman Smyth, theologian, author, and pastor. The papers relate largely to Smyth's interest in and work on behalf of Protestant unity; there is little material for the period prior to his retirement from the ministry in 1908. Important correspondents include bishops and officials in the Anglican and Protestant Episcopal churches, other churchmen and theologians, and laymen interested in his work, most notable George Wharton Pepper...
Dates: 1874-1924, bulk 1908-1924

Southeast Asia Collection, Yale University, records

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Call Number: RU 713
Overview: The records consist of memoranda, correspondence, reports, and lists documenting the Southeast Asia Collection at Yale University Library.
Dates: 1958-1975