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Correspondence File 1898-1970

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence with colleagues, friends, and family, including Ephraim D. Adams, Herbert C. Hoover, Stanley K. Hornbeck, Yamoto Ichihashi, David Starr Jordan, Thomas F. Millard, Willys Peck, E.B. Treat (father), and others, arranged chronologically.
box 1

Letters sent. 1907-12,

 

Letters received, A-Z. 1910-12,

 

Letters sent. 1913,

 

Letters received, A-F. 1913,

box 2

Letters received, G-Z. 1913,

 

Letters sent. 1914-15,

 

Letters received, A-M. 1914-15,

box 3

Letters received, N-A. 1914-15,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1916,

box 4

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1916-17,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1916-17,

 

Correspondence, A-D. 1918,

box 5

Correspondence, E-Z. 1918,

 

Letters sent. 1919-20,

 

Letters received, A-F. 1919-20,

box 6

Letters received, G-Z. 1919-20,

 

Letters sent. 1921,

 

Letters received while in China. 1921,

 

Letters received, A-M. 1921,

box 7

Letters received, N-Z. 1921,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1922-23,

 

Correspondence, A-G. 1923-24,

box 8

Correspondence, H-Z. 1923-24,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1925,

box 9

Correspondence, A-Z. 1926,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1927,

box 10

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1928 (January-September),

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1928 (January-September),

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1928 (October) -1929 (June),

box 11

Correspondence, A-Z. 1929 (July-December),

 

miscellaneous. 1930, Correspondence,

 

A-M. 1930, Correspondence,

box 12

Correspondence, N-Z. 1930,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1931,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1931,

 

Correspondence, A-F. 1932,

box 13

Correspondence, G-Z. 1932,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1933,

box 14

Correspondence, A-Z. 1934,

 

Correspondence, A-M. 1935,

box 15

Correspondence, N-Z. 1935,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1936,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1937,

box 16

Correspondence, A-Z 1937,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1938,

 

Correspondence, A-M. 1938,

box 17

Correspondence, A-Z. 1938,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1939,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1940,

box 18

Correspondence, A-Z. 1940,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1941,

 

Correspondence, A-O. 1941,

box 19

Correspondence, P-Z. 1941,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1942,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1942,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1943,

 

Correspondence, A-J. 1943,

box 20

Correspondence, K-Z. 1943,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1944,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1944,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1945,

box 21

Correspondence, A-Z. 1945,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1946,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1946,

box 22

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1947,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1947,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1948,

 

Correspondence, A-L. 1948,

box 23

Correspondence, M-Z. 1948,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1949,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1949,

box 24

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1950,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1950,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1951,

box 25

Correspondence, A-Z. 1951,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1952,

 

Correspondence, A-M. 1952,

box 26

Correspondence, N-Z. 1952,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1953,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1953,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1954,

box 27

Correspondence, A-Z. 1954,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1955,

 

Correspondence, A-J. 1955,

box 28

Correspondence, K-Z. 1955,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1956,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1956,

box 29

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1957,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1957,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1958,

 

Correspondence, A-J. 1958,

box 30

Correspondence, K-Z 1958,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1959,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1959,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1960,

box 31

Correspondence, A-Z. 1960,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1961,

 

Correspondence, A-J. 1961,

box 32

Correspondence, K-Z. 1961,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1962,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1962,

box 33

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1963,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1963,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1964,

 

Correspondence, A-G. 1964,

box 34

Correspondence, H-Z. 1964,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1965,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1965,

box 35

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1966,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1966,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1967,

 

Correspondence, A-H. 1967,

box 36

Correspondence, I-Z. 1967,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1968,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1968,

box 37

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1969,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1969,

 

Correspondence, miscellaneous. 1970,

 

Correspondence, A-Z. 1970,

 

Correspondence with father (E.B. Treat) 1898-1911.

box 38

Correspondence with father (E.B. Treat) 1912-1921.

 

Correspondence between Prof. and Mrs. Treat and Prof. and Mrs. Yamoto Ichihashi 1942-45.

 

Speeches and Writings 1905-1968

Scope and Contents note

Speeches, articles, book reviews, classroom lectures and lecture notes, and clippings, arranged as listed.
box 38

Alien Land Legislation.

 

America's View of Japanese.

 

Awakened Orient.

 

Awakening of the Orient, Opportunities and Responsibilities for San Francisco and California.

 

California and the Japanese.

 

China and Japan.

 

China and Korea, 1885-1894.

 

Constitution Making in China.

 

Cosmopolitanism in California.

 

David Starr Jordan.

 

Early Japanese Foreign Relations.

 

Early Sino-Japanese Diplomatic Relations.

 

Far East.

 

Foundations of American Policy in the Far East.

 

Friendship of Japan and the United States.

 

Good Offices of the United States during the Sino-Japanese War.

 

Intellectual Bond between Japan and the United States.

 

Japan, America, and the Great War.

 

Japanese in California.

 

Japanese in Manchuria.

 

Mikado's Ratification of the Foreign Treaties.

 

National Land System 1785-1820.

 

Need of the Orient.

 

New Indian Councils.

 

New Lights of Japanese History.

 

Philippine Independence.

 

Possibilities and Facts.

 

Shanghai, January 28, 1932.

 

Stanford Anecdote.

 

Status of the Slave in the Law Courts.

 

Thomas Welton Stanford, An American Pioneer in Australia.

 

Weekly war reviews.

box 39

Book reviews 1910-16, 1922-23, 1929-45.

 

Classroom lectures and lecture notes.

 

History of land systems.

 

United States history 1783-1844.

 

Bibliography and criticism.

 

History of Japan.

 

History of the Far East.

box 40

History of the Far East

 

Clippings.

 

Subject File 1865-1973

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, reports, memoranda, lists, interviews, maps, clippings, and printed matter, arranged alphabetically by subject.
box 41

Adams, Ephraim Douglas.

 

American Committee for Non-participation in Japanese Aggression.

 

American Historical Association, program. 1915

 

Asia, clippings 1922, 1924-25.

 

Asiatic Society of Japan.

 

Atom bomb, decision to drop on Japan.

 

Australia, clippings 1922.

 

Bibliography.

 

Correspondence with libraries.

box 42

Correspondence with libraries.

 

Lists.

 

Biographical file.

 

China.

 

General.

box FH3

Canton Christian College 1924.

Access

Box FH3 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.

Separated Materials

Material from Box 42 was removed and placed in Box FH3 for mold remediation treatment.
box 42

Clippings 1921-24.

box 43

Clippings 1925-26.

 

Money.

 

Industrial cooperatives.

 

Relations with Japan.

 

Relief.

 

Riots of 1925.

 

Shanghai incident of May 30, 1925.

 

Shanghai incident of 1932.

 

Shantung Province, Chinese memorandum claiming restitution of German properties.

 

United States relations 1911-40.

 

United States relations since 1941.

box 44

University of China.

 

Weale, Putnam, Report on a Confidential Mission to Canada, England, and the United States in 1921.

 

Chinese-Japanese studies in the United States.

 

Civil War letters.

 

Colton's Atlas of the Union (1965).

 

Far East, Clippings and maps.

 

Franklin, Benjamin.

box 45

Harris, Townsend.

 

Henry, James M.

 

Honors and awards.

 

Hoover, Herbert C.

 

Oral history interviews with H.C. Hoover.

 

April 8, 1933.

 

August 25, 1940.

 

August 21, 1945.

 

Clippings.

 

Huston, Jay Calvin.

 

Japan.

 

General.

 

Clippings scrapbook 1907-08.

 

Clipping scrapbook 1919-23.

box 46

Clippings 1921-26.

box 47

Economy.

 

Expedition to Formosa.

 

Manchurian question.

 

Shantung Province.

 

United States relations.

 

Japanese in California.

box 48

Japanese in California.

 

Japanese in the United States.

 

Jordan, David Starr.

 

Korea, independence movement 1919-20.

 

Mannix, W.F., Memoirs of Li Hung Chang.

 

Maps, miscellaneous.

 

Matsuoka, Y.

box 49

Memorabilia.

 

Miscellaneous clippings.

 

Pearl Harbor investigation.

 

President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.

box 50

Reprints of published articles given to P.J. Treat by friends and colleagues.

 

Sheppard, Eli T.

 

Shibusawa, Viscount E.

 

Sierra Club.

 

Sun Yat-Sen.

 

Letter (holograph, signed) by Sun Yat-Sen to President Harding May 5, 1921

General Physical Description note: (with typed copy).
 

Letter of Alexander Baxter, Acting President of Canton Christian College, to C.K. Edmunds, President of Canton Christian College, concerning the visit of Sun Yat Sen December 22, 1923.

 

Clippings.

 

Travel brochures for Japan and China 1920-21.

 

Trip to the Far East 1912.

box 51

Trip to the Far East 1921-22

 

Trip, miscellaneous notes.

 

Research File 1855-1939

Scope and Contents note

Manuscripts, reports, correspondence, notes, copies of diplomatic records, and other research materials, which P.J. Treat either acquired from private sources or copied from holdings at the Library of Congress and the National Archives. Arranged alphabetically by the source of the material.
box 51

Bailey, Leonard W., Historical Development of the Modern Chinese Navy.

 

Clyde, Paul H., Attitudes and Policies of George F. Seward, American Minister at Peking, 1876-1880.

 

Kinney, Charles Bishop (South Manchuria Railway Co.), first-hand reports on the political, military, and economic situation in Manchuria 1934-39.

 

Kinney, Henry W. (South Manchuria Railway Co.), first-hand reports on the political, military, and economic situation in Manchuria 1927-36.

 

Loughborough, William B., The Boyhood of Anson Burlingame on the Western Reserve, 1820-40.

 

Ming, Lewis, American Interest in the Far Eastern Crisis.

 

Pruyn, Robert H. (Minister to Japan).

 

Letters received relating to action in the Straits of Siminosaki against Daimio Chosu 1864.

box 52

Extracts of letters from R.H. Pruyn to his wife from Japan 1862-65.

 

Pryor, Helen B., letters from medical doctors in China concerning events in Nanking during 1937-38.

 

Sheppard, Eli T. (selected copies of papers at the Library of Congress).

 

Copies of diplomatic records relating to E.T. Sheppard's activities in the U.S. Foreign Service 1877-80.

 

Letters of Dr. S. Wells Williams, the Legation Secretary, to E.T. Sheppard 1873-76.

 

Notes on Americans in the Far East.

 

Letters of Frederick F. Low, U.S. Minister at Peking to E.T. Sheppard 1872-74.

 

Letters sent and received by E.T. Sheppard 1874-76.

 

Manuscript entitled General Grant in the Orient.

 

U.S. State Department records (selected copies of diplomatic records relating to the Far East deposited at the National Archives).

 

Directions for copying documents and a list of finding aids.

 

China.

 

Rockhill's memo on the open door policy 1899.

 

Register of instructions 1895-1905.

 

Register of despatches 1895-1905.

 

Despatches, instructions, etc. 1971-79.

box 53

Despatches, instructions, etc. 1880-85, 1894-1906.

 

France.

 

Despatches, instructions, etc. 1898-1900.

 

Germany.

 

Despatches, instructions, etc. 1898-1904.

 

Great Britain.

 

Register of despatches and instructions 1895-1905.

 

Despatches 1898-1904.

 

Hawaii

 

Despatches, instructions, etc. 1897-98.

 

Japan.

box 54

Consular appointments 1859-94.

box 54

Report to Townsend Harris concerning the commercial treaty 1855.

box 54

Treaties.

box 54

Miscellaneous reports of the Diplomatic Bureau.

box 54

Register of despatches and instructions.

box 54

Despatches, instructions, etc. 1865-72.

box 55

Despatches, instructions, etc. 1873-81.

box 56

Despatches, instructions, etc. 1882-90.

box 57

Despatches, instructions, etc. 1891-94.

 

Despatches relating to the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of 1894.

 

Despatches, instruction, etc. 1895-99.

box 58

Despatches, instructions, etc. 1900-05.

box 59

Despatches, instructions, etc. 1906.

 

Korea.

 

Register of despatches and instructions 1883-1905.

 

Despatches, instructions, etc. 1883-1905.

 

Russia.

 

Despatches, instructions, etc. 1879-1905.

 

Pamphlets and Printed Matter 1914-1923

Scope and Contents note

Pamphlets and other printed matter relating to World War I, arranged alphabetically by author or title.
box 60

List of pamphlets and printed matter, arranged alphabetically by author or title.

 

A-D.

box 61

E-P.

box 62

R-Z.

box 63

Government publications.

 

Photographs

envelope A

6 photos (negatives) of Joseph Stalin undated

envelope B

13 photos of Manchurian government officials 1930s

envelope C

32 photos of daily life and cultural sites in Manchuria, China, and Japan undated

envelope D

35 photos of P.J. Treat with his wife during trips to Japan with friends and colleagues, and receiving an award 1920-1935

envelope E

1 rare Japanese print from a copper plate undated

envelope mF

3 oversize photos of P.J. Treat with colleagues including Ephraim D. Adams and Yamoto Ichihashi, of the negotiators of the Russo-Japanese treaty in 1905, and of a Chinese execution undated

envelope G, fG

219 photos in 1 album and 79 loose photos pertaining to P.J. Treat's trip to the Far East 1930s

 

Increment February, 1985

Scope and Contents note

Mimeographed correspondence, book reviews, and ethnological studies of the Philippines, 1910-1912, by Otley C. Beyer; and a mimeographed transcript of a speech by D. R. Williams, 1926, relating to legal protection of Americans residing in China
box 63

Mimeographed correspondence, book reviews, and ethnological studies of the Philippines, by Otley C. Beyer; and a mimeog aphed transcript of a speech by D. R. Williams, relating to legal protection of Americans residing in China 1910-1912, 1926,

box 64

Material not yet described

box 65

Material not yet described

box FH14

Material not yet described

Access

Box FH14 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.