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Title: Charles Beach Boothe papers
Date (inclusive): 1850-1976
Collection Number: 65006
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
4 manuscript boxes
(1.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, and clippings relating to the involvement of C. B. Boothe, Homer Lea, and other Americans, with
Sun Yat-sen and other Chinese, in schemes to overthrow the Chinese Imperial Government, 1908-1911, and to Laurence Boothe,
son of C. B. Boothe, 1905-1976. Includes a mounted photograph of Sun Yat-sen, 1910; printed copies of two books by Homer Lea,
The Vermilion Pencil, and
The Valor of Ignorance; and photocopies of mortality registers of Sacramento, California, 1850-1851.
Creator:
Boothe, Charles Beach, 1851-1913
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Box 1 closed due to the fragility of the materials. Content from this collection has been digitized. Original materials may
not without permission of the Archivist.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1965.
[Identification of item], Charles Beach Boothe papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
American businessman.
Scope and Contents of Collection
Correspondence, memoranda, and clippings relating to the involvement of C. B. Boothe, Homer Lea, and other Americans, with
Sun Yat-sen and other Chinese, in schemes to overthrow the Chinese Imperial Government, 1908-1911, and to Laurence Boothe,
son of C. B. Boothe, 1905-1976. Includes a mounted photograph of Sun Yat-sen, 1910; printed copies of two books by Homer Lea,
The Vermilion Pencil, and
The Valor of Ignorance; and photocopies of mortality registers of Sacramento, California, 1850-1851.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Americans -- China
United States -- Foreign relations
China -- History -- Xuantong, 1908-1912
Sun, Yat-sen, 1866-1925
Lea, Homer, 1876-1912