Scope and Contents
Topics include: Smith and Eleanor Hinder living together in Shanghai, trade promotion in China, Julean Arnold, the Second
Sino-Japanese War, travels of Smith, correspondence between Eleanor Hinder and Smith, and Smith's reaction to the Reorganization
Act of April 1939. Includes typed timeline of Smith's life [1939 - December 31, 1941] Newspaper clippings primarily relating
to Smith [including from the China Press, North-China Daily News, Shanghai Evening Post, Los Angeles Times, N. Y. Staats-Zeitung
Und Herold, Sydney Morning Herald, and others] Biography of Smith in American Women [Volume III, 1939-1940] Photographs [including
Smith, Smith and Eleanor Hinder's apartment in Shanghai, Smith and Hinder's cat Mimi, colleagues of Smith (including Amy Hum
Wu, Consul General Clarence E. Gauss, Harold Pease, Leighton Shields, Vice Consul Hungerford Howard, Consul Hall Paxton, Julean
Arnold, John Service, and others), friends of Smith, travels of Smith (including to Kunming and Chungking), staff picture
of the American Consulate General at Shanghai] Formal and personal correspondence [addressed to, from, or regarding Smith].
There is also one typed letter in French that mentions Smith's name [December 5, 1939]. Handwritten and typed. Correspondents
include: En Mei Yui, Thomas L. Hughes, Richard C. Patterson, Jr., Thomas L. Hughes, A. Bland Calder, F. H. Rawls, George Wythe,
F. R. Eldridge, Edward J. Noble, Clarence E. Gauss, George S. Messersmith, Fred H. Van Vranken, Julean Arnold, Moore Acting,
Mark L. Moody, Alice Thacker Post, Clarence Martin, Breckinridge Long, Frank P. Lockhart, Dean Acheson, James M. Howes, Clifford
G. Flook, Hungerford B. Howard, Bruce S. Jenkins, Cyrus Hsien Moo Chen, Wayne C. Taylor, Monnett B. Davis, and Eleanor Hinder Copy
of Radio Bulletin No. 108 [May 9, 1939] addressing the Reorganization Act of April 1939, which transferred and merged the
Foreign Commerce Service and the Foreign Agricultural Service of the United States to the Department of State under the supervision
of the Secretary of State Radio transcripts Excerpt from Radio Bulletin No. 153 including a list of Foreign Commerce Service
officers, salaries, and class specifications Typed memorandum by Smith analyzing and discussing her underpaid salary [addressed
to Laura Berrien, attorney in Washington, D.C.] Original commission by President Franklin D. Roosevelt confirming Smith's
appointment as a class six Foreign Service Officer [July 13, 1939] Smith's oath of office for Foreign Service Officer, Class
6 position Language qualifications form [completed by Smith] Typed document listing the qualifications of Smith Typed memorandum
by Julean Arnold addressed to George Wythe [Smith contributed to this document] Smith's diplomatic passport Original commission
by President Franklin D. Roosevelt confirming Smith's appointment as Consul of the U.S.A. [November 16, 1939 and January 13,
1940] Original commission by President Franklin D. Roosevelt confirming Smith's appointment as Secretary in the Diplomatic
Service [November 16, 1939 and January 13, 1940] Original commission by President Franklin D. Roosevelt confirming Smith's
appointment as Consul of the U.S.A. for Shanghai [December 29, 1939] Annual report by Smith entitled "Chemical Trade in China"
[published in Commerce Trade Promotion "series" No. 211, March 10, 1940] List of staff and salaries of American Consulate
General Shanghai [March, 1940] [Smith included] Smith's vaccination card [issued by Regimental Hospital, Fourth Marines, Shanghai,
China] Program for an event honoring Julean Arnold Smith and Eleanor Hinder's Christmas Eve open house invitation Clippings
of the Chinese American Trade Week program Chinese woodblock prints depicting highway construction scenes Radiograms Typed
letter from Eleanor Hinder to Smith telling describing the living conditions in Shanghai. The letter also includes some affectionate
words for Smith at the end [December 6, 1941] Censored love letter [censored by either Hinder or Smith] from Eleanor Hinder
to Smith dated December 7, 1941