Register of the J. Arthur Duff papers
1899 November 14 | Born in Kuling, China |
1911-1920 | Sent to live with relatives in Ontario, Canada |
1920 | Returned to China, went into business in Shanghai |
1926 | Married Jeanie Woodbridge (a China-born daughter of 13 generations of Canadian ministers and missionaries). They had five children: Woodrow, Virginia, Arthur, David, and Teddy |
1939 | Moved his family to the United States when the Japanese invaded China |
1941 December-1942 February | Escaped internment in Hong Kong |
1942 | Recruited by the O.S.S. and returned to China to operate as an O.S.S. agent on the Chinese mainland for the duration of the war |
1945-1960 | Established a highly successful manufacturing and retail business in several areas in the Far East |
1960 | Retired from active business becoming a world-wide wanderer |
1979 | Had a stroke |
1990 | Suffered a series of strokes, entered a nursing facility at Carewest Calistoga, California |
1996 August 2 | Died, California |
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
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 by Duff 1942-1943
Materials related to Duff's OSS activities
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
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
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
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
Memoirs/book notes circa 1982-1985
Chronological writings' drafts
Childhood 1906-1910
Early days in Canada 1914
Events in Kuling-Kiukiang 1926-1927
Shanghai incidents 1932
Japan occupied Manchuria 1934
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
Reviews 1960-1985
Comments on The Universe undated
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
1960-1979
1964
1976
1982-1984
1982-1985
1984
1984-1985
1985
1986
Wilson, Edith Bolling (four letters) 1929
Soong-Ching-ling, Madame (letter to) 1962
Sevareid, Eric (CBS News) 1965
Munro, Ross H. 1977
Wedemeyer, Albert 1960-1985
Wedemeyer, Albert 1960-1985
Miscellany 1983-1984
Envelopes addressed to Duff 1939-1944
Telegram receipts 1930
Books (photocopies) 1912-1981
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, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1968
The China Story, by Freda Utley, Henry Regnery Company, Chicago 1951
The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison, 1895-1912, edited by Lo Hui-Min, 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, Daw Sen and Co. Private Ltd., Calcutta 1960
Ernest Hemingway and His World, by Anthony Burgess (photocopies of some parts), Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1978
The Exile, by Pearl S. Buck, Methuen and Co. Ltd., London (six editions) 1936-1956
The Face of War, by Martha Gellhorn, Simon and Schuster, New York 1936-1959
Fighting Angel: A Biography of the Author's Father, by Pearl S. Buck, The John Day Company, New York 1936
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), Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., Garden City, New York 1943
Important Documents Relating to China's Revolution (with English Translation)), Commercial Press Limited, Shanghai, China 1912
The Islands: America's Imperial Adventure in the Philippines, by Emily Hahn, 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, 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
"Rivershade": A Historical Sketch of Kiangyin Station, China, by Lacy L. Little circa 1928
The Soong Sisters, by Emily Hahn, Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., New York 1941
The War of The Running Dogs: the Malayan Emergency: 1948-1960, by Noel Barber, Weybright and Talley, New York 1972
Books on World War II (excerpts) 1969-1980
The War in the Far East 1941-1945: A Military History, by Basil Collier, William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York 1969
Stilwell and the Amrican Experience in China, 1911-1945, by Barbara W. Tuchman, 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, 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, Macmillan Company, New York 1971
Clippings, mostly from The New York Times 1912-1985
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
Photocopy 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
J. Arthur Duff collection of photographs, photocopies 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