Guide to the Edward Thomas Williams Papers
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Partial List of Correspondents
- Adee, Alvey Augustus, 1842-1924 (see U.S. Dept. of State)
- Alsberg, Carl Lucas, 1877-1940 (Letter, May 21, 1934) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Anderson, George Everett, 1869-1940 (Letter, Nov. 24, 1913) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Arnold, Julean Herbert, 1875- (Letter, July 11, 1912) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919 (see U.S. Dept. of State)
- Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946 (3 letters, 1922)
- Barrows, David Prescott, 1873-1954 (2 letters, 1929-1934)
- Bliss, Tasker Howard, 1853-1930 (Letter, May 1, 1919); enclosure: Letter (copy) from Bliss to President Wilson, April 29, 1919. (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 (2 letters, 191[2?]-1915)
- California. University. President (8 letters, 1918-1941. Written by B. I. Wheeler, R. G. Sproul, and M. E. Deutsch); enclosure to letter, July 1, 1918: letter to Wheeler from Warren Olney, June 29, 1918.
- California. University. Regents (4 letters, 1921-1925. Written by R. G. Sproul and C. J. Struble)
- California. University, Berkeley. Library (3 letters, 1928-1929. Written by Harold L. Leupp)
- Carr, Wilbur John, 1870-1942 (see U.S. Dept. of State)
- China Commerce Club of California (Letter, Dec. 6, 1918); Copy, signed by Robert Dollar) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Clark, Champ, 1850-1921 (Letter, Apr. 6, 1911 (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Coffee, John Main, 1897- (Letter, May 10, 1939) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Colegrove, Kenneth Wallace, 1886- (Letter, Feb. 19, 1929) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Crowell (Thomas Y.) Company (4 letters, 1927-1934. Concern Williams' book, China Yesterday and Today)
- Deutsch, Monroe Emanuel, 1879-1955 (see California. University. President)
- Dollar, Robert, 1844-1932 (see China Commerce Club of California) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Fletcher, Henry Prather, 1873-1959 (Letter, Aug. 30, 1909) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Ford, Guy Stanton, 1873- (Letter, June 1, 1927) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Freemasons. California. Henry Morse Stephens Lodge, no. 541 (2 letters, 1933-1940)
- Greene, Roger Sherman, 1881-1947 (2 letters, 1912-1939. Letter dated 1939 written while chairman, American Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression)
- Grose, George Richmond, 1869-1953 (Letter, Oct. 1, 1924) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Harado, Tasuku, 1863- (2 letters, 1920-1921)
- Harper and Brothers (4 letters, 1922-1928. Concern Williams book, Short History of China)
- Harris, Norman Dwight, 1870- (2 letters, 1924-1927)
- Hinckley, Frank Erastus, 1871-1950 (Letter, Oct. 17, 1934) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Hornbeck, Stanley Kuhl, 1883- (3 letters, 1934-1936)
- Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948 (see U.S. Dept. of State)
- Johnson, Hiram Warren, 1866-1945 (Letter, June 12, 1919) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Johnson, Nelson Trusler, 1887-1954 (2 letters, 1929-1937)
- Kerner, Robert Joseph, 1887-1956 (2 letters, 1937-1939)
- Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928 (see U.S. American Commission to Negotiate Peace and U.S. Dept. of State
- Lessing, Ferdinand Diedrich, 1882-1961 (2 letters, 1939)
- Leupp, Harold Lewis, 1877-1952 (see California. University. Berkeley. Library)
- Lineberger, Walter Franklin, 1883-1943 (Letter, June 10, 1925) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Lobingier, Andrew Stewart, 1862-1939 (Letter, Nov. 19, 1928) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Lockhart, Frank P., 1881-1949 (see U.S. Dept. of State)
- MacMurray, John Van Antwerp, 1881- (6 letters, 1912-1925)
- McClatchy, Valentine Stuart, 1857-1938 (Letter, Aug. 2, 1924); enclosure: Letter (copy) from McClatchy to K. Abiko re Japanese exclusion, July 23, 1924. (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- McCormick, Frederick, 1870-1951 (Letter, Dec. 11, 1928) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Miller, Ransford Stevens, 1867-1932 (see U.S. Dept. of State)
- Nicolay, Helen, 1866-1954 (see Washington, D.C. All Souls Sunday School)
- Olney, Warren, 1870-1939 (see California. University. President)
- Patchin, Philip Halsey, 1884-1954 (Letter, Oct. 18, 1934) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Phillips, William, 1878- (Letter, July 24, 1911) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Polk, Frank Lyon, 1871- (see U.S. Dept. of State)
- Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 (see U.S. Dept. of State)
- Rowe, Leo Stanton, 1871-1946 (Letter, Nov. 3, 1921) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Saunders, Kenneth James, 1883-1937 (Letter, Aug. 2, 1922) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Sproul, Robert Gordon, 1891- (see California. University. President and California. University. Regents)
- Stephens, Henry Morse, 1857-1919 (2 letters, 1919)
- Straight, Willard Dickerman, 1880-1918 (Letter, Feb. 25, 1914) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Sze, Sao-ke Alfred, 1877-1958 (Letter, May 15, 1936) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Taft, William Howard, 1857-1930 (Letter, June 12, 1915) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Thomas, Elbert Duncan, 1883-1953 (Letter, May 16, 1936) (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- U.S. American Commission to Negotiate Peace (3 letters, 1919. Include letters from Robert Lansing)
- U.S. Library of Congress (Letter, Dec. 21, 1917); signed by Herbert Putnam, librarian (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- U.S. Dept. of State (17 letters, 1907-1937. Written by Elihu Root, Robert Bacon, R. S. Miller, A. A. Adee, W. J. Carr and others)
- Washington, D. C. All Souls Sunday School (3 letters, 1919. Letter dated May 11 written by Helen Nicolay)
- Willcox, Walter Francis, 1861- (4 letters, 1927)
- Wilson, Huntington, 1875- (see U.S. Dept. of State)
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 (Letter, Mar. 30, 1915); written to Sec. of State William J. Bryan (in A-Z miscellany folder)
- Wittfogel, Karl August, 1896- (3 letters, 1934. With these: Letter dated Aug. 17, 1933 written by M. Winternitz asking help in securing Wittfogel's release from German prison)
- Young, Wallace Jesse, 1880-1923 (see U.S. Dept. of State)
- 1 carton of photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1965.011-.020)
- 1 photograph of San Francisco residences transferred to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1965.001--PIC)
- Portraits in the Portrait Collection of the Bancroft Library
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Invitations
Obituaries
Manuscripts of his writings
Unpublished Recollections
"Richard Trowbridge," unpublished novel
Various essays on China relating to its history, taxation, food, etc.
Manuscripts of his writings on politics, social life, customs, folklore, art, religion, education, philosophy, etc. of China, Japan, and the far east; and on the Paris Peace Conference.
Unpublished journal of voyage from San Francisco to Shanghai, 1887
Diaries 1893-1924.
v. 1, Concerns his missionary activities in China. 1893-1895
v. 2, Includes notes on visits to Chinese industries. 1908-1923
v. 3 1909
v. 4 1911 1922
v. 5, Concerns political events following the abdication of the Manchus 1912
v. 6, Many entries relate to early period of the Chinese Republic. 1913-1914
v. 7, Concerns his participation in the Paris Peace Conference 1918-1919
v. 8, Concerns his participation in the International Conference on the Limitation of Armaments 1921-1922
v. 9 1924
Notebook with English-Chinese vocabulary, kept by Williams
Guest Book 1913-1915
Account books 1887-1928
v. 1 1887-1890
v. 2 1911-1913
v. 3, Also contains notes and statistics on China, Japan, etc. 1927-1928
Decorations
P.P.I.E. gold medal of honor, 1915
Order of Jade, Awarded by Chinese government 1936
Chia Ho, with jewels, Awarded by Chinese government approximately 1920
U.S. Department of State press releases, circulars, etc. 1898-1937
Passports, appointments, membership certificates, awards, academic degrees