Collection Contents

Biographical note written by his children, August 1996

Family history, 1942-1943

China claim documents, 1943-1984

Explanatory notes to claims, 1943

American claims against Chinese-expropriated properties and businesses, 1970-1984

British claims. Foreign Compensation Commission, London, 1981-1984

Canadian claims. Foreign Claims Commission, Ottawa, 1981-1982

Address/note books, 1950-1985

Certificate of marriage, 1926 March 11

Passports, 1943-1966

Passports, 1943-1966

Material on trip around the world, 1970-1972

Articles about J. Arthur Duff, 1975-1984

History of service written in his own words, 1942-1943

James A. Duff OSS confidential file, 1942-1981

Materials related to Duff's OSS activities

OSS information relating to arrangements between Cornelius V. Starr and General Donovan. Memoirs are recollected in 1983-1984

Notes and remarks on C. V. Starr, 1940-1984

Headquarters Philippine Department, Office of Assistant Chief of Staff for Military Intelligence, Manila, 1938 December 14

Memorandum and correspondence to executives of Starr Group regarding James A. Duff escape from Honk Kong, 1942

Confidential letter from the Director of OSS William J. Donovan to former members of OSS, 1945 September 28.

Memorandum issued by J. A. Duff regarding China (political, economical and cultural conditions), 1965 April 16

Confidential memo regarding situation in Cuba, 1960 March 29

Minutes of meeting with Higher Education Delegation from the People's Republic of China, 1985 January 30.

Reports, 1941-1985

Simulated report of the Royal Commission headed by Sir Lyman P. Duff, Chief Justice, charged with an investigating the circumstances leading up to the dispatch of two Canadian regiments to the British crown colony of Hong Kong in October-November 1941

Incarceration of Japanese in Canada after Pearl Harbor, undated

Trip to Canton, 1957 October 4-7

Intelligence and Sabbath observance. Includes comments on fundamental and modernity in religion, 1985

Arab oil rip-off has destroyed the "American Way" in pricing, and competition: there may come a day of reckoning - a "Sonic Boom" which can destroy the entire basis of "Free Enterprise," and the financial system with it, circa 1985

Chronological writings' drafts

1906-1910 (Childhood)

1914 (Early days in Canada)

1926-1927 (Events in Kuling-Kiukiang)

1932 (Shanghai incidents)

1934 (Japan occupied Manchuria)

1937-1938

1939

1940

1941-1942

1943

1944

1946-1947

1971

Topics

Beggars

Chinese currency

Chinese customs

Chinese characteristics

China coast characteristics

General

Sammy Chang

Mimi Lau

Chang-Tin-Chuk

Eugenia Moore, Honigsberg et Al

Oren B. Mctavish

Chungking: First Arrival by Plane

Compradores and chits

Converts

Count Igor

Devon

Escape From Hong Kong To Free China

Original typescript, 1942

Newspaper articles, photograph, introduction to Hong Kong escape manuscript

Escape From Hong Kong To Free China, January and February, 1942, printed by the South China Morning Post, Limited, Hong Kong, undated

Hong Kong escape aftermath

Hong Kong: Post-war episodes

Photographs, maps, notes, and correspondence

Ernest Hemingway

Face

Fall of Hong Kong

Far Away and Long Ago, reminiscences of, 1899-1982

General Morris "Two-Gun" Cohen

High finance in Shanghai

Hollis H. Arnold

Home leave

John Francis Duff (eldest brother)

Kiukiang/Kuling

Kiukiang: animal characteristics

Kuling

Language

Language of diplomacy

Loong Kai Ho Creek - Kiukiang

Lu Chat

Madame Chiang Kai Shek - And Her "Helpers"

Margaret Anne (Ostler) Duff, 1869-1952 (Mother)

Mary

Missionaries

Old China hands

On retirement

Opium

Religion

Return to Kiukiang

Sex in China

Shanghai

Shanghai volunteers

Squeeze

Story of Dr. Wassel

Street writers

Thieves in China

Three waterfalls

To follow General Chiang Kai-Shek and General Stilwell "Old China Hands"

Wartime notes

Water buffalo

Miscellaneous writings on current events, 1969-1985

Comments on The Universe, undated

The Answer to "Peaceful Co-Existence," June 1960.

Evolution or Special Creation, some notes and commentary on the book by Frank Lewis Marsh, 1963

Comments on M19 Escape and Evasion: 1939-1945 by M. R. D. Foot and J. M. Langley, 1985

Comments on newspaper articles, 1976

Empire of the Sun, by J. G. Ballard,

Personal letters, family correspondence, 1889-1985

1940

1942-1972.

1960-1979

1964

1976

1982-1984

1982-1985

1984

1984-1985

1985

1986

Wilson, Edith Bolling, four letters, 1929

Parker, George A., 1941.

Lockwoods family, Kukong (China), 1942.

Soong-Ching-ling, Madame, letter to, 1962

Sevareid, Eric (CBS News), 1965

Tuchman, Barbara, 1975-1984.

Hoyles, W. F., 1976.

Munro, Ross H., 1977

Wedemeyer, Albert, 1960-1985

Wedemeyer, Albert, 1960-1985

Miscellany, 1983-1984

Envelopes addressed to Duff, 1939-1944

Telegram receipts, 1930

Borodin: Stalin's Man in China, by Dan N. Jacobs, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, 1981

China in Revolution: The First Phase, 1900-1913, edited and with an introduction by Mary Clabaugh Wright. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1968

The China Story, by Freda Utley, published by Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, 1951

The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison, 1895-1912, edited by Lo Hui-Min, published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, London-New York-Melbourne, 1986-1978

The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison, volume II, edited by Lo Hui-Min, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, London-New York-Melbourne, 1978

Darjeeling: Queen of the Himalayas, compiled by William G. Elloy. Produced by Daw Sen and Co. Private Ltd., Calcutta, 1960

Donald of China, by Earl Albert Selle, published by Invincible Press, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and New Zealand, 1938-1948.

Ernest Hemingway and His World, by Anthony Burgess (photocopies of some parts). Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1978

The Exile, by Pearl S. Buck, published by Methuen and Co. Ltd., London, 1936-1956.

The Face of War, by Martha Gellhorn, published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1936-1959

Fighting Angel: A Biography of the Author's Father, by Pearl S. Buck, published by The John Day Company, New York, 1936

The Flying Tigers: The Story of the American Volunteer Group, by Russell Whelan, The Viking Press, New York, 1942.

Hill Resorts of India, issued on behalf of Department of Tourism, Government of India, New Delhi, 1961

Hong Kong Eclipse, by G. B. Endacott. Edited with additional material by Alan Birch, Oxford University Press, Oxford-New York-Melbourne, 1978

The Hump: The Great Military Affair of World War II, by Bliss K. Thorne, J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and New York, 1965

I Flew For China, by Captain Royal Leonard (Chiang Kai-shek's personal pilot), published by Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1943

Important Documents Relating to China's Revolution (With English Translation)), published by Commercial Press Limited, Shanghai, China, 1912

The Islands: America's Imperial Adventure in the Philippines, by Emily Hahn, published by Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, New York, 1981

Kuling Estate: Directory and general Information for Visitors, issued under the direction of the Kuling Council, 1925-1926

Last Chance in China, by Freda Utley, published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis-New York, 1947

The Ledo Road: General Joseph W. Stilwell's Highway to China, by Leslie Anders, University of Oklahoma Press, 1965

Odyssey of a Liberal: memoirs, by Freda Utley, excerpts. Published by Washington National Press, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1970.

"Rivershade": A Historical Sketch of Kiangyin Station, China, by Lacy L. Little, circa 1928

The Soong Sisters, by Emily Hahn, published by Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., New York, 1941

Suez to Singapore, Cecil Brown story, by Random House, Inc., published simultaneously in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1942.

The War of The Running Dogs: the Malayan Emergency: 1948-1960, by Noel Barber, published by Weybright and Talley, New York, 1972

The War in the Far East 1941-1945: a Military History, by Basil Collier, published by William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1969

Stilwell and the Amrican Experience in China, 1911-1945, by Barbara W. Tuchman, published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1970-1971

The Chindit War: Stilwell, Wingate, and the Campaign in Burma: 1944, by Shelford Bidwell, with introduction by John Masters. Published by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1980

Singapore: The Chain of Disaster: A Controversial Account of Britain's Humiliation in the Far East, by Major-General S. Woodburn Kirby. Published by Macmillan Company, New York, 1971

1912-1938, 1976

1926-1927

1926-1927

1937

1937-1939

1937-1941

1938

1940

1941

1942, 1944

1945

1945, 1984

1946

1946, 1982

1946 1984

1949

1949-1951, 1960-1968, 1984

1977-1983

1978

1981-1982

1982-1983

1983

1983-1984

1984-1985

Notebook, 1921

Correspondence, 1960-1984

Driver's License, 1939-1982

Passports

American, 1918-1961

British, 1939

Memoirs, undated.

Photo copy of the book History of the American Field Service in France, 1914-1917, printed by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1920

Woodbridge family documents

General, 1917-1984

Woodbridge Record, privately printed at New Haven, Connecticut, 1883

Memorial service, conducted in Palo Alto, California, 1984 March 20

Kuling pictures, undated

Portrait, undated

Views of China, undated

Duff family photo, 1905

Jeannie Duff collection of family photographs, 1906-1934

Kiukiang-Kuling area with comments, 1920s

Kiukiang-Kuling area, photo album, 1923-1939

Various photos with notes to accompany pictures of China, and Duff family in China. 1926-1927.

Photographs of top Chinese Army Generals, 1926-1942

Pictures of China with comments, 1926-1943

Album of pictures depicting African and Chinese everyday life, 1932-1939

Pictures of China with explanatory notes 1934-1938

Family photos, China, 1936-1937

Cairo, Egypt, 1942

Chang-tin-chuk (Chief of the Kwantung Bureau and Commissioner of the Commission on Overseas Affairs) and J. Arthur Duff in South China, 1943

Lum-king-hwen (Lin) and Li-fuk-lum, 1943

Picture and map of China giving the location of Taipun Bias Bay north of Hong Kong, 1944

Picturesque photos of Duff family in Canada, 1946-1977.

J. Arthur Duff collection of photographs, photo copies of originals, 1900-1951

Photograph folders with explanatory notes

Negatives, 1910-1943 and undated

Certificate of identification issued to J. Arthur Duff, in Chinese, 1 framed image, undated

Certificate of identification #261 issued to Tu-Fu-Yu (J. A. Duff), Special representative of United States Relief, 1943 June 19.

Indira Gandhi and J. Arthur Duff with a group of students, group picture, 1 framed image, New Delhi, 1980 March 3.