Preliminary Inventory to the Willys Ruggles Peck Papers, 1911-1952.
machine-readable finding aid created by
James Ryan
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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Fax: (650) 725-3445
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© 1998
Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Preliminary Inventory to the Willys Ruggles Peck Papers, 1911-1952.
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Contact Information
- Hoover Institution Archives
- Stanford University
- Stanford, California 94305-6010
- Phone: (650) 723-3563
- Fax: (650) 725-3445
- Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu
- Encoded by:
- James Ryan
© 1998 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Willys Ruggles Peck Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1911-1952.
Collection number: 53005
Creator:
Peck, Willys Ruggles, 1882-1952.
Collection Size:
3 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 envelope
((2.2 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Diary, correspondence, memoranda, biography, and clippings, relating to Chinese foreign relations, domestic politics in China,
and the Japanese occupation in Bangkok, Thailand, during World War II.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Willys Ruggles Peck Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1953
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Access Points
United States. Dept. of State.
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945.
World War, 1914-1918.
World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--East Asia.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Thailand.
China.
China--Foreign relations--United States.
China--Politics and government--1912-1949.
Thailand.
Thailand--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations.
United States--Foreign relations--China.
United States--Foreign relations--Thailand.
Diplomats--United States.
Container List
Box 1.
Notebook containing informal observations made by Willys R. Peck, while Consul General and Counselor of the Legation at Nanking,
China in the 1930's
Typescript of a biography of Willys R. Peck, co-authored by the surviving "Peck children," Willys, Llewellyn, and Mary Peck
Read
Original draft copies, with corrections, of the biography of W. R. Peck
One typewritten letter between the Peck relatives concerning Willys Peck's biography, 1952 August 1
One handwritten letter from one of the Peck relatives to another (mother to daughter), Peking, 1952 January 4
Diary of events in the American Legation, Bangkok, Thailand, 1941 December 8 - 1942 August 19
Newspaper clippings, 1940-1945
Maps of China and the Philippine Islands
Box 3.
File of material on Tsingtao, China, 1917-1919
Handwritten manuscript entitled "Life of a Prisoner at the Present Time" (former Civil Commissioner M. G. R. Gunther), 1916
July 26
Handwritten manuscript entitled "Wives of Prisoners," ca. 1916
News Bulletin, Tsingtao, 1914 September 20
Newspaper clipping from
Peking and Tientsin Times, 1913 May 3
Correspondence, 1926-1943
Miscellaneous memoranda, newspaper clippings, copies of speeches, notes, correspondence, etc., 1911-1943
Chinese language materials (phrase book, flash cards, note cards, anagram game, etc.)
Box 4.
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1937-1938
Box Photo file
Photographs. See photograph card catalog
