Examples of Collection
There is no complete catalogue for the AFSC archives. For an example of materials for China, Japan, or Korea, please see the survey I created:
- Survey of AFSC Archives on China (1924-1991)
- Survey of AFSC Archives on Japan (1923-1988)
- Survey of AFSC Archives on Korea (1938-2000)
An excerpt from the survey of AFSC Chinese materials is below:
1938:
- Box: General Files 1938, General to Foreign Service (Czechoslovakia).
- Folder: FS General Admin 42967, China: Correspondence, 1938. Scope & Contents: Letters about: war in China, need to organize relief work, visit to China, letter from Madame Chiang Kai-shek to Margaret E. Jones, wartime conditions in Shanghai; Persons mentioned include: Clarence Pickett, William Comfort, Gilbert & Minnie Bowles, Ward Perkins, Harry Silcock, Arnold & Lois Vaught, May Ling Sooy Chiang (Madame Chiang Kai-shek), Margaret Jones, Howard Diamond, Joseph Platt, Lucy Burtt, Rufus Jones, Ida Pruitt. (typed and handwritten; 150 sheets)
- Box: General Files 1939, Administration (General) to Foreign Service (England).
- Folder: AFSC Foreign Service, China, 1939. Scope & Contents: Letters about: war in China, refugee Centre in Canton, budget for China work, Shanghai Sub-Committee reports, Tomkinson's account of his visit to China, failed attempt to have German Jewish refugee doctors go to China to help, air raids on Friends' compound in Chungking; Persons mentioned include: Clarence Pickett, Joseoph Platt, William Cadbury, Leonard Tomkinson, Arnold & Lois Vaught. (typed and handwritten; 50 sheets)
- Folder: AFSC Foreign Service, China, Letters to and From, 1939. (typed and handwritten; 150 sheets)