Register of the Laurence E. Salisbury papers

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Title: Laurence E. Salisbury papers
Date (inclusive): 1916-1973
Collection Number: 77032
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 4 manuscript boxes, 2 envelopes (1.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, reports, and memoranda, relating to American foreign relations with China, Japan, and the Philippines, and to political developments in the United States
Creator: Salisbury, Laurence E., 1891-1976

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1977.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Laurence E. Salisbury Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

Laurence E. Salisbury, 1891-1976

1891, March 13 born, Chicago, Illinois
1916 graduated, University of Chicago
1916-17 Instructor in English, Japan
1917-1919 Second Lieutenant, Overseas Service, British Army
1920 Student Interpreter, Japan
1922 Vice-Consul and interpreter, Kobe, Japan
1924-1928 Foreign Service Officer, Japan
1928-1929 State Department, Washington
1930 Assigned to Paris
1931 Assigned to Tokyo
1932 Assigned to State Department, Washington
1933-1938 Assigned to Peking
1938 Assigned to State Department, Washington
1939 First Secretary to Office of High Commissioner, Philippines
1941-1944 Deputy Assistant Chief, Division of Far Eastern Affairs, Washington
1944 Acting Chief, Division of Southwest Pacific Affairs, Washington
1944-1948 Editor, Far Eastern Survey (American Institute of Pacific Relations Publication)
1976 died

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Japan -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
China -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- China
Diplomats -- United States
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953
Far Eastern Survey.
Philippines -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- Philippines
United States. Department of State
Institute of Pacific Relations. American Council

 

Correspondence 1916-1973

Scope and Contents note

Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
box 1

Unidentified 1945-1973

 

Abaya, Hernando 1953-1968

 

Alger Hiss Defense Fund 1952

 

Atcheson, George 1943-1947

 

Bales, Col. William L. 1944

 

Blackwood, Wing Commander 1964

 

Buss, Claude A. 1944-1945

 

Carter, Edward C. 1947

 

Castle, W.R. 1936

 

Caulas, Ricardo 1941

 

Clubb, O. Edmund 1961-1964

 

Cousins, Norman 1949

 

Davies, John n.d.

 

Davis, J.K. 1940-1941

 

Dennett, Raymond 1944

 

Drumwright, Everett F. (?) 1944

 

Far Eastern Survey, 1948

 

Farley, Miriam S. 1944

 

Field, Frederick V. 1947

 

Fujimura, Nobuo 1953-1963

 

Gauss, Clarence E. 1945

 

Gonzalez, Gonzalo D. 1948

 

Greene, Katrine R.C. 1949

 

Hamilton, Max 1941

 

Hiss, Alger 1948-1950

 

Holland, W.L. 1944-1948

 

Hudson Review, The 1962

 

Institute of Pacific Relations 1951

 

Jacobs, J.E. 1940

 

Kahn, E.J., Jr. 1973

 

Kao Tsung-wu [Gao, Zongwu] "Into the Tiger's Den" memoir, original English manuscript, 1944-1945

 

Kerr, Jack 1947-1950

 

Lake, James B. 1950

 

Lane, Clayton 1949

 

Lattimore, Owen 1945

 

Lindsay, Michael 1948

 

Lockwood, William W. 1948

 

McCarran, Senator Pat 1951

 

McCoy, Commander Melveyn 1944

 

Mangahas, Federico 1945

 

Marquardt, Frederic 1946

 

Marron, Mrs. Cyril Q. 1943-1944

 

May, Gary 1972

 

Mayer, Col. William 1944

 

New York Times, 1948-1973

 

New Yorker, The, 1961

 

Reporter, The, 1951

 

Russell, Diarmuid 1960

 

Sakamishi, Shiro 1942-1951

 

Salisbury, Mr. and Mrs. (Laurence's parents) 1916-1942

 

Scoon, Mr. 1945

 

Service, Caroline (Mrs. John Stewart?) 1973

 

Service, John Stewart 1944

 

Sprouse, Phil 1946-1947

 

Steyne, Alan N. 1945

 

Swope, Gerard 1951

 

Turner, Bill, (?) 1945

 

Tydings, Senator Millard 1950

 

United States. Department of Justice. Alien Enemy Control Unit 1942

 

Voorhis, Jerry 1945

 

White, Jimmy 1951-1952

 

Subject File 1931-1973

Scope and Contents note

Reports, memoranda, and printed material, arranged alphabetically by title or subject.
box 2

Abaya, Hernando J.

 

American Institute of Pacific Relations

 

General

 

Correspondence

 

Newspaper clippings

 

Printed material

 

Reports

 

United States Senate Hearings 1951

 

Asia

 

Atcheson, George

 

Blackwood's Magazine, January, 1962

 

China

 

Civil Affairs Training School - Yale University

 

Dooling, A.B. (?)

 

Gayn; Mark; China Lobby Myths; The Nation; June 5, 1954

 

Hartendorp, A.V.H.

 

Hornbeck, Stanley K.

 

Hiss, Alger

 

Japan

 

Kao Tsung-wu

 

Kohlberg, Alfred

 

Kuramoto, Eimei

 

Kwok Yuk Ming

 

Lattimore, Owen

box 3

Long, Breckinridge

 

McCarthyism - Newspaper clippings

 

Manchuria - Report of the Commission of Enquiry Appointed by the League of Nations, 1932

 

Manchurian Incident 1931

 

Mormons

 

Robertson, Walter S.

 

Sayre, Francis B.

 

Tsuneya, Munesuke

 

United States. Department of State.

 

United States Foreign Service

 

Ward, Robert S.

 

Speeches and Writings 1919-1967

Scope and Contents note

Lectures, drafts, printed articles, play manuscript, and notes by Laurence Salisbury, arranged alphabetically by title or subject.
box 3

America and the European Revolution;(by Laurence Salisbury?) n.d.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten copy.
 

Autobiography n.d.

General Physical Description note: Typewritten notes.
 

Between Madame Butterfly and the A-Bomb; Blackwood's Magazine; December 1962.

General Physical Description note: 1 printed copy.
 

China policy. Drafted for the Committee on a Democratic Far Eastern policy December, 1945.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten copy.
 

Chinese Coolies and the War; The Saturday Evening Post; October 25, 1919.

General Physical Description note: 1 photocopy.
 

Conquest: A Manuchurian Memoir; Blackwood's Magazine; February 1965.

General Physical Description note: 1 printed copy.
 

Cross-Currents in the Philippines; co-authored with Bernard Seeman; I.P.R. pamphlets; No. 23. American Council; Institute of Pacific Relations 1946.

General Physical Description note: 1 printed copy.
 

End of the Frock Coat; The; Foreign Service Journal; June 1961.

General Physical Description note: 1 printed copy.
 

Foggy Bottom; A play co-authored with Paul Medalie 1952.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten copy.
box 4

Japan - Notes by Laurence Salisbury n.d.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten copy
 

Lectures - Civil Affairs Training School, Yale University ca. 1945-1946.

 

India.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten copy
 

Japan

 

Titled

 

Buddhism.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten copy.
 

Cabinets 1885-1932.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten copy.
 

Communism.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten copy.
 

Education.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten copy.
 

Emperor.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten copy.
 

Japan: 1931-1941.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten and handwritten copy.
 

Japanese Army and Navy, The.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten copy.
 

Legal System, The.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten and handwritten copy.
 

Reactionary Societies.

General Physical Description note: 1 handwritten copy
 

Social Welfare.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten and handwritten copy.
 

Tojo and Koiso Cabinets.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten copy.
 

Tokugawa Era.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten copy
 

Tragedies of Nagasaki, The.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten copy
 

Untitled

 

Lecture I.

General Physical Description note: 1 handwritten copy.
 

Lecture II.

General Physical Description note: 2 copies (1 typewritten, 1 carbon)
 

Lecture III.

General Physical Description note: 1 typewritten copy.
 

Lecture IV.

General Physical Description note: 2 typewritten versions
 

Lecture XI.

General Physical Description note: 1 handwritten copy
 

Lecture XII.

General Physical Description note: 1 handwritten copy
 

Miscellaneous notes, parts of lectures, etc.

 

United States - Department of State

 

Letter to the Editor: New York Times, February 26, 1967.

General Physical Description note: 1 printed copy
 

Manchuria; Partial typewritten manuscript; similar to article entitled Conquest: A Manchurian Memoir; in Blackwood's Magazine; n.d. February 1965

 

Miscellaneous notes, typewritten and handwritten

 

Poem. Farewell on leaving editorship of Far Eastern Survey, 1948

 

Temple Tenant; Blackwood's Magazine; August 1958.

General Physical Description note: 1 printed copy
 

Ten Thousand-Name Umbrella; The. Blackwood's Magazine; November 1956.

General Physical Description note: 1 printed copy
 

Untitled notes on trip to Japan 1958

 

Very Secret Weapon; The; Blackwood's Magazine; July 1957.

General Physical Description note: 1 printed copy
 

Zaibatsu; The; The Nation; July 14, 1945.

General Physical Description note: 1 printed copy.
 

Diaries 1931-1943

Scope and Contents note

Diary entries for the years 1931, 1934, 1935, and 1943.
box 4

Diary entries for the years 1931, 1934, 1935, 1943.

 

Photographs

envelope mA

1 print of Lawrence Salisbury, Col. David D. Barret and others undated

envelope B

2 prints of Laurence Salisbury, Paul Meyer, Whitney Young, Clarence Gauss, Nelson Johnson, Clarence Spiker, Lewis Clark,; 1 print of Salisbury, Nelson Johnson, Clarence Gauss and others; 1 print of Salisbury, Nelson Johnson and others; 1 print of Salisbury and unidentified person. 1 print of W.C. Forbes; 1 print of Laurence Salisbury and others; 1 print of T.P. Young; 1 print of Lubsan Tsutim; 2 prints of the Marco Polo Bridge (Lukuochiao), China, 1937; 7 prints of American Marines in Peking, circa 1937; 3 prints of Ta Chueh Ssu, China; 2 prints of Peihai, Peking, China; 6 unidentified prints; 3 prints of anti-Japanese posters, Canton, China circa 1937