Clarke family papers

Series 1. Correspondence

Box 1, folder 1

Ruth Johnson Clarke Correspondence 1904-

General note

originals

Juliet J. to Mamma and Papa from Shanghai Item 1. 2-6-04

R. J. To Papa and Mamma and Hosner from Shanghai Item 2. 2-13-04

J. Montague to Mama from Shanghai Item 3. 3-12-04

Juliet Montague to Mama from Shanghai Item 4. 4-15-04

[R.J.] to Mama and Hosner from Shanghai (fragment burned) Item 5. 4-27-04

R.J. to Mama, Papa, and brothers from Shanghai Item 6. 5-20-04

R.J. to Mama from Shanghai Item 7. 6-2-04

R.J. to Mama from Shanghai Item 8. 6-4-04

R.J. To Mama, Papa Hosner from Shanghai Item 9. 6-17-04

R.J. to Mamma, Hosner from Shanghai from Shanghai [2-04] Item 10. undated

R.J. to Mama and Papa from Shanghai [3/4-04] Item 11. undated

Box 1, folder 2

Ruth Johnson Clarke Correspondence

Ruthie to Mrs. C.F. Johnson note- invitation to tea Item 1. undated

R.J. to Papa [from Shanghai] Item 2. 1904

R.J. to Daddy [from W.D.C.] Item 3. 12-28-08

R.J. to Daddy [from W.D.C.] Item 4. 7-16-11

R.J. to Daddy [fr. Chamersburg] Item 5. 9-1911

R.J. to Daddy [fr. Chambersburg] Item 6. 10-1-11

R.J. to Daddy [fr. Chambersburg] Item 7. 11-1911

R.J. to Daddy [fr. Chambersburg] m. revolutionist and Manchu trouble Item 8. 3-3-[1912]

R.J. to Mother and Dad [fr. Shanghai] re: Hosner's operation and R.J.'s illness, etc. Item 9. 2-28-15

R.J. to Family [fr. Shanghai] re: possible teaching position in Peking Item 10. 3-8-15

R.J. to Family [fr. Shanghai] Item 11. 5-10-15

RJ to EGC Item 12. 1-22-16

RJ to EGC Item 13. 9-3-16

RJ to EGC Item 14. 10-3-16

wedding announcement Item 15. 6-16

Rutheric to Daddy, Mummy, Hosner [fr. Peking] Item 16. 1-1-17

RJC to Daddy Item 17. 1916

Sunday noon. R, Eric & Frank to Dearest Ones RMS Empress of Russia to Japan Item 18. undated

RJC to Eric [fr. Tsinan] Item 19. 9-23-20

Ruth and Eric to Family [fr. Shanghai] Item 20. 4-30-21

RJC to Family, Yokohama RMS Emperor of Russia [to Vancouver] Item 21. 5-6-21

RJC to Family Kobe m. Sir Reg. and Lady Gamble, Mr. Cruikshank Item 22. 5-5-[21]

RJC to Family, Nagasaki RMS Empress of Russia m. Dr. and Mrs. Packard of the Rockefeller in Peking Item 23. 5-13-21

[RJC] to Uncles Hosner, Frank, and Milton Delaware Gap, Pa. m. Eric's illness Item 24. 7-24-21

RJC to family Easton, Pa. Item 25. 7-31-21

RJC to Eric, Tsinanfu, m. Mother and Kathleen in Tientsin Item 26. 1-29-22

RJC to Family m. New York trip and exhibit Arden studies and Dr. Slean Item 27. 4-13-29

RJC to Daddy [Wilmington, Delaware] Item 28. 4-30-31

RJC to EGC, USS President Jackson, photo & note Item 29. 12-13-33

RJC to Mrs. SS Corbett [NY] re: Mother's funeral Item 30. 11-1-36

RJC to Scott S. Corbett Item 31. 11-1-36

RJC to Mrs. SS Corbett Item 32. [11-1-36]

RJC to Friends [Shanghai] good letter concerning uncertain political state in China (Shanghai) in 1937. Incident Friday 13, 1937. m. George Scranton; Dr. Bob Reischauer's death; bombing of Japanese consulate; typhoon Item 33. 1937

RJC to Eric N.L. Item 34. undated Wednesday

RJC to Daddy and Mother Item 35. undated May 4

RJC to Lori Treece [U.S.] Item 36. 5-8-48

Container Summary: (copy)

RJC to Margaret Hager's Mother, Portland Oregon Item 37. 1-28-49

Box 1, folder 3

Ruth Johnson Clarke To Beth Rogerson 1929-31

Box 1, folder 4

Eric G. Clarke Correspondence

EGC to Miss Johnson Peking ALS Item 1. 4-10-15

Papa Clarke to Ruth Peking re: engagement of son to Ruth ALS & CU (enclosuree) Item 2. 1-22-16

[EGC to Ruth] [Peking] (personal) AL Item 3. 2-2-16

EGC to Ruth [Peking] (personal) & cover. ALS Item 4. 2-22-16

Enclosure to #4, sketch of ring design for wedding Item 5.

EGC [to Ruth] [Peking] (personal) & cover Item 6. 2-26-16

EGC [to Ruth] & cover [Peking] (note enclosed) ALS Item 7. 2-3-16

EGC [to Ruth] & cover ALS [Peking] Item 8. 3-3-16

Enclosure to #8 S.E. Luca [?] to EGC. Peking Item 9. 3-3-16

EGC [to Ruth] [Peking] Item 10. undated

Coded telegram & cover [EGC to RJC] Peking Item 11. 3-29-16

EGC to Ruth and cover ALS Item 12. 3-5-16

Enclosure to #12 Hadleys to Ruth ANS Item 13.

[5-16] Next month EGC to little Scampykins Peking ALS and cover Item 13A.

EGC [to Ruth] and cover Item 14. [5-21-16]

[6-16] EGC [to Ruth] ALS Item 15.

[EGC to Ruth] AN Item 16. [1916]

ALS and cover Item 17. [1916]

ANS and cover Item 18. 7-27-16

Rutheric to Dad, Mother, and Hosmer ALS [Peking] Item 19. 8-20-16

Rutheric to Dad and Mummy Peking (TL & ALS combined) Item 20. 3-11-17

Enclosure to #20 Sunday 4 PM AL fragment [Ruth] to Daddy, Mummy & Hozziekins Item 21. (no date)

EGC to Mother and Dad [Peking] ALS Item 22. 9-29-20

copy telegram DT Tsinan Item 23. 4-24-21

TLS EGC to Dad Item 24. 5-18-22

ALS EGC [to Ruth] Peking Item 25. 11-5-27

ALS EGC [to Ruth] Item 26. 11-11-27

TLS EGC to Ruthie & Margaret et al. Shanghai re: CFJ's death Item 27. 5-19-31

Enclosure to #27, funeral address by Rev. R.A. Torrey, Jr. CFJ, M.D. DT Item 28.

Enclosure to #27, funeral address by L.J. Davies Dr. CFJ in Relation to the Shantung Mission and Tsinan Station DT Item 29.

Enclosure to #27 RJC tp Family ALS carbon Item 30.

EGC to Mummy [Ruth] ALS Item 31. 6-21-31

EGC to Ruth Margaret and Bess Item 32. 11-2-36

[EGC] tp Ruth re: Mother Johnson's death AL fragment Item 33. undated-Mon 9 Nov 1931?

EGC to Daddy, Mummy, & Margo ALS Item 34. undated-Apr 26 1916?

EGC to Ruth ALS [during Japanese trip] Item 35. 6-25-[21]

EGC to Dad TLS Peking m. unrest if Wu Pei Fu think things are going right. Item 36. Aug 15 [?] [1916]

cover [EGC] to Ruth Item 37. April 2, 1961

Box 1, folder 5

Hosner Johnson Correspondence

ALS and cover HJ [to RJC] m. Mother Clarke's & Dad Johnson's death, wedding plans w/Cora. Wei Hsin, Shantung Item 1. 10-25-16

Hosmer to Father and Mother TL carbon (Hong Kong) m. Queen Victoria, account of journey Item 2. 1-13-28

(Singapore, actually written 1-17) TL journey Item 3. 2-12-28

(Sumatra) (1-24) TL journey Item 4. 2-14-28

HJ to Folks (Tsinan) parents wedding anniversary TLS Item 5. 3-28-29

HJ to Mother ALS [Chefoo?] Item 6. 10-14-34

HJ to Mother TLS (New York) Item 7. 2-14-35

fragment ALS m. Hector [Elizabeth] Item 8. 1934

HJ to Mother TLS (NY) M. Nanking murder, Hector [Elizabeth] Item 9. 11-17-? [probably '34]

HJ to Ruth. postcard AS [China?] re: Elizabeth's birth that a.m. [Charles, Eric, other kid] Item 10. 11-21-40

Box 4

RJC correspondence 1965-1968, collection notes & correspondence, Dictionary Please, etc.

Box 5

Correspondence, etc. A-F

1. A-B

2. Accident Claims (Taxi-NY)

3. Business License Reports

4. Centilli

5. Chao-Ch'un Teh

6. John Crawforal

7. Customs-Import License

8. Data on Cupids + Paintings

9. Evans, Ruby

10. E

11. Incoming Corr. E-G

12. Far Easterner

13. Faris, Paul + Helena

14. Farm (John I. Smith)

15. Friends of the Museum - Portland

16. Friends of the Museum

Box 6

Correspondence etc. G-M

1. Gande

2. Ginpoh

3. Ginpoh

4. Gluck Auf

5. Incoming Corr. H-N

6. Lee Su Jan

7. Mc

8. McCoy, Georgia (Mrs. James C. Lowry)

9. MACDONALD MINES

10. Mauritz

11. Memos (Mementos)

Box 7

Correspondence etc. M-P

1. Morand, Donald A.

2. Music

3. In. Corr. N-W

4. Newspaper Cuttings

5. Newspaper Cuttings

6. Niemi

7. Nolan, Bob

8. Osland-Hill, Nora Waln

9. Owens 1960

10. P-General

11. Paquet

12. Pending Business

13. Political (Kennedy)

14. Pope, Clifford

15. Portland Zoo

16. Price, Dolly

Correspondence etc. R-Z

Box 8, folder 1

R

Box 8, folder 2

Receipts 1962

Box 8, folder 3

Receipts Personal

Box 8, folder 4

Hand-written receipts of Ruth Johnson Clarke

Box 8, folder 5

Red China

Box 8, folder 6

Reynolds

Box 8, folder 7

Ritchic

Box 8, folder 8

Ruth's Souvenirs

Box 8, folder 9

S

Box 8, folder 10

Schools

Box 8, folder 11

Secret Pal

Box 8, folder 12

Shoemaker, Sam

Box 8, folder 13

Sokobin

Box 8, folder 14

Stibolt

Box 8, folder 15

T

Box 8, folder 16

Telephone #'s

Box 8, folder 17

Tinkhams

Box 8, folder 18

Unions

Box 8, folder 19

V

Box 9, folder 1

W

Box 9, folder 2

Waldron

Box 9, folder 3

Webster, Jerome

Box 9, folder 4

Wentworth, Irwin

Box 9, folder 5

White, Henry & Esmee

Box 9, folder 6

Winburn, Joan Stacy

Box 9, folder 7

Winter berger

Box 9, folder 8

K.C. w u

Box 10, folder 1

y

Box 10, folder 2

yarnell

Box 10, folder 3

yuin

Box 10, folder 4

Zell Bors. (Jade)

Box 10, folder 5

Zonta

Box 11, folder 1

Correspondence - Miscellaneous to Ruth Johnson Clarke

Series 2. Business papers, clippings, etc.

Box 11, folder 2

RJC bills & receipts

Box 11, folder 3

Miscellaneous business material of RJC

Box 11, folder 4

RJC miscellaneous

Box 11, folder 5

Miscellaneous

Box 11, folder 6

Handpainted Chinese Country & Medical Scenes

Box 12, folder 1

Photographs: RJC et al.

Box 12, folder 2

Photographs: RJC et al.

Box 12, folder 3

Photographs: RJC et al.

Box 12, folder 4

Pamphlets

Box 12, folder 5

Bound newspaper clippings

Box 12, folder 6

loose newspaper clippings

Series 3. Notes, notebooks, ephemera

Box 14, folder 15

Audio reel - Services for Eric Clarke June 7, 1963, Portland Oregon

Box 14, folder 16

Memorabilia

Box 15, folder 1

Biographical/genealogical material

Box 15, folder 2

Business correspondence

Box 15, folder 3

Letters of sympathy

Box 18, folder 1

Postcards to Rev. G.W. Clarke, Tientsin circa 1899-1906

Box 18, folder 2

Letter to Ruth from little brother 1924

Box 18, folder 3

Typed travel journal ("British" Flat File #6] 1925

Box 18, folder 4

photocopy - Susan & Jimmy (Blue Theme Notebook)

Box 18, folder 5

photocopy - Golden West Themebook, Changsha 1923-1926

Box 18, folder 6

Various handwritten notes - journals and or correspondence

Box 18, folder 7

Dr. Charles Fletcher Johnson letter to parents, 1895 [chronicles ceding of Taiwan to Japan]

Box 18, folder 8

Chinese Imperial State Seal with explanatory notes by Prof. Theodore K.L. Owyang

Box 34, folder 1

Auction catalogs, signed Heifitz program, other publications

Box 34, folder 2

A Letter to the Witt Family - Marjorie Clark Graham

Box 34, folder 3

Men of Yale 1795-1966

Box 34, folder 4

Lung Hwa Camp ephemera 1944, postcards, artwork, copies of Ruth article 1970

Box 34, folder 5

Packet sent to Hosmer Johnson

Box 34

8mm Kodachrome color film - "Half Mrs. Clarke, Half Dr. Nan, 4th of May 1942"

Box 34, folder 6-7

Newspaper clippings including some 19th century from "Dad" Johnson

Scope and Contents

Some full copies, including first issue of Lake Arthur Herald, 1890.

Box 34, folder 8

Ephemera removed from clipping file

Scope and Contents

Includes handwritten notes, Chicago election tickets, Chicago Medical College, "copy of Peking Gazette"

Box 35

Newspaper clippings, mostly 1930s-1950s

Box 35

Dictionary Please scrapbook - press photos & clippings, Portland period

Box 36, folder 1

Zonta Club International

Box 36, folder 2

Fashion show notes

Box 36

Notebook - Quotations

Box 36

Notebook - Zonta, Dictionary Please, exhibits

Box 36

Notebook - Shai Art Club lecture

Box 36

Notebook - collection notes

Box 36

Notebook - trip (NY) with inserts 1964

Box 36

Notebook - Sales record, clothing with inserts 1962

Series 4. Photographs

Scope and Contents

In 2023 a large portion of the Clarke papers was reprocessed, particularly the ten boxes of photographs in the collection. These photographs include many of Ruth, Eric and their families as well as historical portraits of their forebears, Ruth's art collection and other examples of Chinese art, jewelry, furniture, sculpture and textile design. There are are also many photographs of northern China, some including the Clarkes and their friends but also many that do not.

Box 13, folder 1-2

Fragile/damaged prints & negatives

Scope and Contents

Includes images related to the Boxer Rebellion of 1900.

Box 13, folder 3-5

[Art] Collection Photographs & Negatives

Box 19, folder 1

Photographs - family & friends (some China)

Box 19, folder 2-3

Photographs from blue "Sundry Photos" box

Scope and Contents

includes Arkansas farm, Corbett family, old Johnson tombstones, Dictionary Please, color photos circa 1960s, camping/rural scrapbook pages

Box 19, folder 4

Negatives & contact strips

Box 19, folder 5

Photographs - mostly 19th century

Box 19, folder 6

Notes & packaging

Box 20, volume 1

Travel scrapbook of postcards and some photographs ("British" Flat File 5)

Scope and Contents

Includes photos of logging, visit to cemetery, Sri Lanka (possibly commercial set), etc.

Box 20, volume 2

The Lung - Wang - T'ang Guest Book, 1916 onward, Western Hills, Peking [photo album with some captions and later clippings] mostly 1920s

Box 20, volume 3

Chinese Imperial Gold Collection photo album with notes and catalog

Box 21, folder 1

Large photo of tapestry

Box 21, folder 1

Group portraits, mounted

Box 21, volume 2

Photo album documenting Chinese governmental ceremony involving trunks of paper money [possibly earthquake relief?]

Box 21, folder 4

Chinese art photo album (blue album with Chinese title)

Box 22, volume 1

Conococheague photo album - Ruth E. Johnson '12 ; Margaret E. Johnson '13 [Wilson College, Pennsylvania etc.]

Box 22, folder 2

Mailed postcards from scrapbook with views of Chambersburg etc.

Box 22, folder 3

Travel scrapbook with clippings, postcards, photographs, etc. [removed from binder]

Box 22, volume 4

Green binder with large photos of China, some captioned

Box 23, volume 1

"Changing Peking" album - Scenic & Personal circa 1930s

Scope and Contents

No captions except one page labeled "Changing Peking" and one group shot of polo players dated 1931

Box 23, folder 2

Unbound album of Chinese art

Scope and Contents

One page with Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Arden Gallery sale invitations

Box 23, folder 3

Ruth Johnson Clarke wedding & anniversary scrapbook 1916-1961

Box 23, folder 4

Clarkes personal photo album - China circa 1930s

Box 24, volume 1

Ruth Johnson 1915 Scrapbook - Peking. Summer Palace ; Nankou ; Great Wall ; Ming Tombs ; Yellow Temple Shantung ; Lai Shan ; marriages 1915-1916

Box 24, volume 2

Ruth Johnson captioned scrapbook, almost all China 1915-1924

Box 25

Portraits of Ruth and Eric

Box 26, folder 1

Disbound photo album of China/missionary work circa 1890s, with some related mounted prints

Box 26, folder 2-3

China photo albums - architecture and street scenes

Box 26, folder 4

Loose pages from scrapbooks

Box 26, volume 5

Photos of Chefoo School Days circa 1911-1925

Box 27, volume 1

China album - Scenic, Western Tombs Tour (some Japan)a

Box 27, volume 2

Eric G. Clarke album [partially used]

Box 28

Miscellaneous unlabeled paper binders of photos, postcards, etc., most circa 1950s-60s

Box 29

Loose scrapbook pages originally in "A Letter to Witt Family" folder

Box 29

U.S. travel scrapbooks (postcards, maps, pamphlets, clippings) 1-4

Box 30

U.S. travel scrapbooks (postcards, maps, pamphlets, clippings) 5-8

Box 31

Slides

Box 32

Slides

Box 33

Photos of China (most without Clarkes)

Box 35

Larger photographs, artwork

Series 5. Publications etc.

Box 14, folder 1

Laufer, B. - The Chinese Imperial Gold Collection 1934

Box 14, folder 2

Jacobs, Leonebel: My China

Box 14, folder 3

Yamanaka and Co.: Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art 1943

Box 14, folder 4

Orientations March 1973 & April 1973

Box 14, folder 5

Chinese Classics in Miniature April 1973

Box 14, folder 6

Dr. Burt Brown Barker Memorial Message 1969

Box 14, folder 7

Laufer, B.: Insect Musicians and Cricket Champions of China

Box 14, folder 8

Chinese and Siamese Art belonging to Miss Alice Boney 1958

Box 14, folder 9

Goddard, W.G.: Formosa Taipei 1958

Box 14, folder 10

Bensabott, R.: Chinese Jade and Other Semi-Precious Jewelry

Box 14, folder 11

The China Tiffin Club: Throughout the Years 1958

Box 14, folder 12

Gump, A. Livingston:Jade Hunt with inserts circa 1931

Box 14, folder 13

The Altar of the Sacred Jade Pagoda San Francisco

Box 14, folder 14

China Post, October 10, 1973

Box 36

Book - The Little Oxford Dictionary, Geo. Ostler Oxford: Clarendon Press 1931

Box 36

Book - The Three Weavers, Annie Fellows Johnston Boston: LC Page 1905

Box 36

Book - New Testament Oxford Univ. Press

Box 36

Book - The Holy Bible, American Revision Committee NY: Thomas Nelson 1901

Box 36

Book - Murray Warner MIT Class of '92 Special Printing, MIT Press (1869-1920), 1929

Box 36

Book - The Conococheague Wilson College Annual vol. 17, Chambersburg, Pa. 1912

Box 16

Miscellaneous reference books re: China, jade, etc.

Scope and Contents

See list in top notes.

Box 17, volume 1

Bridging the years - Shantung Mission 1860-1937

Box 17, volume 2-3

What one should know about Jade, Chinese Chronology pamphlets

Box 17, volume 4

Chinese Snuff Bottles no.3

Box 17, volume 5

Zell Brothers Jewelers catalog mockup

Box 17, volume 6

The Ceramic Arts & Sculpture of China exhibit catalog, 1962-1963

Container Summary: (Red)

Box 17, volume 7

Chinese Calligraphy & Painting exhibit catalog 1962

Box 17, volume 8

New Terms for New Ideas: A Study of the Chinese Newspaper, 1913

Box 17, volume 9

Hugo's Simplified System - Russian Reading Made Easy post-1918

Box 17, volume 10

The Union Hymn Book for Scholars (Sunday School Union) inscribed; Agnes Lancaster May 1867

Container Summary: (imperfect copy)

Box 17, volume 11

New Testament American Bible Society; N.Y. 1871

Box 17, volume 12

Goodrich, Chauneey: a Pocket Dictionary - Chinese-English Peking 1891

Box 17, volume 13

Beuvin, Blanche Jacques: Verbes Irriguliers Français (Premier nulle) Lazarists of Pei-Jang; Peking 1914

Box 17, volume 14

Longfellow, H.W.: The Song of Hiawatha George G. Harrap; London circa 1925?

Container Summary: (imperfect copy)

Box 17, volume 15

Russian ed. Holy Bible 1920

Box 17, volume 16

Catholic University of Peking Bulletin # 8 Dec-31

Box 17, volume 17

Martin, W.A.P.: Hanlin Papers. Second Series Kelly & Walsh; Shanghai 1894

Box 17, volume 18

Woodbury, I.B.: The Anthem Thanksgiving F.J. Huntington; N.Y. circa 1874?

Box 17, volume 19

Irene Forsyth - Cheng's Mother (Frienship Press 1948)