Duff, J. Arthur (James Arthur) papers

Biographical File 1942-1996

Scope and Contents note

Personal documents and China claim documents, arranged by physical form.

box 1, folder 1

Biographical note written by his children 1996 August

Scope and Contents note

Includes Duff family tree.

box 1, folder 2

Family history 1942-1943

Scope and Contents note

Includes report on James A. Duff service in the OSS.

China claim documents 1943-1984

box 1, folder 3-4

Explanatory notes to claims 1943

box 1, folder 5-7

American claims against Chinese-expropriated properties and businesses 1970-1984

box 1, folder 8-9

British claims. Foreign Compensation Commission, London 1981-1984

box 1, folder 10-11

Canadian claims. Foreign Claims Commission, Ottawa 1981-1982

box 1, folder 12-13

Address/note books 1950-1985

box 1, folder 14

Certificate of marriage 1926 March 11

box 1, folder 15-16

Passports 1943-1966

box 2, folder 1

Passports 1943-1966

box 2, folder 2

Material on trip around the world 1970-1972

box 2, folder 3

Articles about J. Arthur Duff 1975-1984

Office of Strategic Services File 1940-1985

Scope and Contents note

Personal files, notes, remarks, memoranda, letters, and reports related to Duff's service in the counter-Japanese division in Chungking, China, arranged by physical form.

box 2, folder 4

History of service written by Duff 1942-1943

box 2, folder 5

James A. Duff OSS confidential file 1942-1981

Scope and Contents note

Includes certificate of identification.

Materials related to Duff's OSS activities

box 2, folder 6

OSS information relating to arrangements between Cornelius V. Starr and General Donovan. Memoirs are recollected in 1983-1984

Scope and Contents note

Includes clippings.

box 2, folder 7

Notes and remarks on C. V. Starr 1940-1984

box 2, folder 8

Headquarters Philippine Department, Office of Assistant Chief of Staff for Military Intelligence, Manila 1938 December 14

box 2, folder 9

Memorandum and correspondence to executives of Starr Group regarding James A. Duff escape from Honk Kong 1942

box 2, folder 10

Confidential letter from the Director of OSS William J. Donovan to former members of OSS 1945 September 28

Scope and Contents note

Includes information, letters translated from Chinese, and photographs of Yu Han Mou, 1944.

box 2, folder 11

Memorandum issued by J. A. Duff regarding China (political, economical and cultural conditions) 1965 April 16

box 2, folder 12

Confidential memo regarding situation in Cuba 1960 March 29

box 2, folder 13

Minutes of meeting with Higher Education Delegation from the People's Republic of China 1985 January 30

Scope and Contents note

Includes material on China's Reunification under the Three Principles of the People, Taipei, October 22, 1982.

Reports 1941-1985

box 2, folder 14

Simulated report of the Royal Commission headed by Sir Lyman P. Duff, Chief Justice, charged with an investigating the circumstances leading up to the dispatch of two Canadian regiments to the British crown colony of Hong Kong in October-November 1941

box 2, folder 15

Incarceration of Japanese in Canada after Pearl Harbor undated

box 2, folder 16

Trip to Canton 1957 October 4-7

box 2, folder 17

Intelligence and Sabbath observance 1985

Scope and Contents note

Includes comments on fundamental and modernity in religion.

box 2, folder 18

Arab oil rip-off has destroyed the "American Way" in pricing, and competition: there may come a day of reckoning - a "Sonic Boom" which can destroy the entire basis of "Free Enterprise," and the financial system with it circa 1985

Writings 1942-circa 1985

Scope and Contents note

Memoirs/book notes, reviews, and miscellaneous writings, arranged chronologically or alphabetically by topic.

Memoirs/book notes circa 1982-1985

Chronological writings' drafts

box 2, folder 19

Childhood 1906-1910

box 2, folder 20

Early days in Canada 1914

box 2, folder 21-22

Events in Kuling-Kiukiang 1926-1927

box 2, folder 23

Shanghai incidents 1932

box 2, folder 24

Japan occupied Manchuria 1934

box 2, folder 25

1937-1938

box 3, folder 1

1939

box 3, folder 2

1940

box 3, folder 3

1941-1942

box 3, folder 4-7

1943

box 3, folder 8

1944

box 3, folder 9

1946-1947

box 3, folder 10

1971

Topics

box 3, folder 11

Beggars

box 3, folder 12

Chinese currency

box 3, folder 13

Chinese customs

box 3, folder 14

Chinese characteristics

China coast characteristics

box 3, folder 15

General

box 3, folder 16

Sammy Chang

box 3, folder 17

Mimi Lau

box 3, folder 18

Chang-Tin-Chuk

box 3, folder 19

Eugenia Moore, Honigsberg et Al

box 3, folder 20

Oren B. Mctavish

box 3, folder 21

Chungking: First Arrival by Plane

box 3, folder 22

Compradores and chits

box 3, folder 23

Converts

box 3, folder 24

Count Igor

box 3, folder 25

Devon

Escape from Hong Kong to Free China

box 3, folder 26

Original typescript 1942

box 3, folder 27

Newspaper articles, photograph, introduction to Hong Kong escape manuscript

box 3, folder 28

"Escape From Hong Kong To Free China, January and February, 1942," printed by the South China Morning Post, Limited, Hong Kong undated

box 4, folder 1

Hong Kong escape aftermath

box 4, folder 2

Hong Kong: Post-war episodes

box 4, folder 3

Photographs, maps, notes, and correspondence

box 4, folder 4

Ernest Hemingway

box 4, folder 5

Face

box 4, folder 6

Fall of Hong Kong

box 4, folder 7

Far Away and Long Ago, reminiscences of 1899-1982

box 4, folder 8

General Morris "Two-Gun" Cohen

box 4, folder 9

High finance in Shanghai

box 4, folder 10

Hollis H. Arnold

box 4, folder 11

Home leave

box 4, folder 12

John Francis Duff (eldest brother)

box 4, folder 13

Kiukiang/Kuling

box 4, folder 14

Kiukiang: animal characteristics

box 4, folder 15-16

Kuling

box 4, folder 17

Language

box 4, folder 18

Language of diplomacy

box 4, folder 19

Loong Kai Ho Creek - Kiukiang

box 4, folder 20

Lu Chat

box 4, folder 21

Madame Chiang Kai Shek - And Her "Helpers"

box 4, folder 22

Margaret Anne (Ostler) Duff, 1869-1952 (mother)

box 4, folder 23

Mary

box 4, folder 24

Missionaries

box 4, folder 25

Old China hands

box 4, folder 26

On retirement

box 4, folder 27

Opium

box 4, folder 28

Religion

box 4, folder 29

Return to Kiukiang

box 4, folder 30

Sex in China

box 4, folder 31

Shanghai

box 4, folder 32

Shanghai volunteers

box 4, folder 33

Squeeze

box 4, folder 34

Story of Dr. Wassel

box 4, folder 35

Street writers

box 4, folder 36

Thieves in China

box 4, folder 37

Three waterfalls

box 4, folder 38

To follow General Chiang Kai-Shek and General Stilwell "Old China Hands"

box 5, folder 1-2

Wartime notes

box 5, folder 3

Water buffalo

box 5, folder 4-10

Miscellaneous writings on current events 1969-1985

Reviews 1960-1985

box 6, folder 1

Comments on The Universe undated

box 6, folder 2

The Answer to "Peaceful Co-Existence," 1960 June

Scope and Contents note

Includes clippings.

box 6, folder 3

Evolution or Special Creation, some notes and commentary on the book by Frank Lewis Marsh 1963

box 6, folder 4

Comments on M19 Escape and Evasion: 1939-1945 by M. R. D. Foot and J. M. Langley 1985

box 6, folder 5

Comments on newspaper articles 1976

box 6, folder 6

Empire of the Sun, by J. G. Ballard

Correspondence 1889-1986

Scope and Contents note

Contains correspondence of both a business and personal nature, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.

box 6, folder 7-11

Personal letters, family correspondence 1889-1985

box 6, folder 12

1940

box 6, folder 13

1942-1972

Scope and Contents note

Includes one photograph and photographic negatives.

box 6, folder 14

1960-1979

box 6, folder 15

1964

box 6, folder 16

1976

box 6, folder 17

1982-1984

box 6, folder 18

1982-1985

box 6, folder 19

1984

box 6, folder 20-21

1984-1985

box 6, folder 22

1985

box 6, folder 23

1986

box 6, folder 24

Wilson, Edith Bolling (four letters) 1929

box 6, folder 25

Parker, George A. 1941

Scope and Contents note

Includes photos and clippings, 1938-1943. Also includes life story of Lum-King-Hwen (in Chinese with English translation)

box 6, folder 26

Lockwoods family, Kukong (China) 1942

Scope and Contents note

Includes clippings.

box 6, folder 27

Soong-Ching-ling, Madame (letter to) 1962

box 6, folder 28

Sevareid, Eric (CBS News) 1965

box 6, folder 29

Tuchman, Barbara 1975-1984

Scope and Contents note

Includes clippings.

box 6, folder 30

Hoyles, W. F. 1976

Scope and Contents note

Includes clippings.

box 6, folder 31

Munro, Ross H. 1977

box 6, folder 32-33

Wedemeyer, Albert 1960-1985

box 7, folder 1-2

Wedemeyer, Albert 1960-1985

box 7, folder 3

Miscellany 1983-1984

box 7, folder 4

Envelopes addressed to Duff 1939-1944

box 7, folder 5

Telegram receipts 1930

Background Material 1912-1985

Scope and Contents note

Consists of collected secondary sources, which includes photocopies of books and articles, press summaries, studies, reports, clippings, and printed materials, arranged by physical form, then alphabetically thereunder.

Books (photocopies) 1912-1981

box 7, folder 6

Borodin: Stalin's Man in China, by Dan N. Jacobs, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England 1981

box 7, folder 7

China in Revolution: The First Phase, 1900-1913, edited and with an introduction by Mary Clabaugh Wright, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1968

box 7, folder 8

The China Story, by Freda Utley, Henry Regnery Company, Chicago 1951

box 7, folder 9

The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison, 1895-1912, edited by Lo Hui-Min, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne 1986-1978

box 7, folder 10

The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison, Volume II, edited by Lo Hui-Min, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne 1978

box 7, folder 11

Darjeeling: Queen of the Himalayas, compiled by William G. Elloy, Daw Sen and Co. Private Ltd., Calcutta 1960

box 7, folder 12

Donald of China, by Earl Albert Selle, Invincible Press, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and New Zealand 1938-1948

Scope and Contents note

Includes extensive reviews and related articles, 1938-1948.

box 7, folder 13

Ernest Hemingway and His World, by Anthony Burgess (photocopies of some parts), Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1978

box 8, folder 1

The Exile, by Pearl S. Buck, Methuen and Co. Ltd., London (six editions) 1936-1956

box 8, folder 2

The Face of War, by Martha Gellhorn, Simon and Schuster, New York 1936-1959

box 8, folder 3

Fighting Angel: A Biography of the Author's Father, by Pearl S. Buck, The John Day Company, New York 1936

box 8, folder 4

The Flying Tigers: The Story of the American Volunteer Group, by Russell Whelan, The Viking Press, New York 1942

Scope and Contents note

Includes The New York Times Book Review from November 1, 1942.

box 8, folder 5

Hill Resorts of India, issued on behalf of Department of Tourism, Government of India, New Delhi 1961

box 8, folder 6

Hong Kong Eclipse, by G. B. Endacott, edited with additional material by Alan Birch, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, Melbourne 1978

box 8, folder 7

The Hump: The Great Military Affair of World War II, by Bliss K. Thorne, J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and New York 1965

box 8, folder 8

I Flew For China, by Captain Royal Leonard (Chiang Kai-shek's personal pilot), Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., Garden City, New York 1943

box 8, folder 9

Important Documents Relating to China's Revolution (with English Translation)), Commercial Press Limited, Shanghai, China 1912

box 8, folder 10

The Islands: America's Imperial Adventure in the Philippines, by Emily Hahn, Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, New York 1981

box 8, folder 11

Kuling Estate: Directory and General Information for Visitors, issued under the direction of the Kuling Council 1925-1926

box 8, folder 12

Last Chance in China, by Freda Utley, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, New York 1947

box 9, folder 1

The Ledo Road: General Joseph W. Stilwell's Highway to China, by Leslie Anders, University of Oklahoma Press 1965

box 9, folder 2

Odyssey of a Liberal: Memoirs, by Freda Utley (excerpts), Washington National Press, Inc., Washington, D.C. 1970

Scope and Contents note

Includes letter of J. Arthur Duff to General (Wedemeyer?), October 1983.

box 9, folder 3

"Rivershade": A Historical Sketch of Kiangyin Station, China, by Lacy L. Little circa 1928

box 9, folder 4

The Soong Sisters, by Emily Hahn, Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., New York 1941

box 9, folder 5

Suez to Singapore, Cecil Brown story, by Random House, Inc., published simultaneously in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited 1942

Scope and Contents note

Includes note about Cecil Brown in Random House, New York.

box 9, folder 6

The War of The Running Dogs: the Malayan Emergency: 1948-1960, by Noel Barber, Weybright and Talley, New York 1972

Books on World War II (excerpts) 1969-1980

box 9, folder 7

The War in the Far East 1941-1945: A Military History, by Basil Collier, William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York 1969

box 9, folder 8

Stilwell and the Amrican Experience in China, 1911-1945, by Barbara W. Tuchman, The Macmillan Company, New York 1970-1971

box 9, folder 9

The Chindit War: Stilwell, Wingate, and the Campaign in Burma: 1944, by Shelford Bidwell, with introduction by John Masters, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York 1980

box 9, folder 10

Singapore: The Chain of Disaster: A Controversial Account of Britain's Humiliation in the Far East, by Major-General S. Woodburn Kirby, Macmillan Company, New York 1971

Clippings, mostly from The New York Times 1912-1985

box 9, folder 11

1912-1938, 1976

box 9, folder 12

1926-1927

box 10, folder 1

1926-1927

box 10, folder 2

1937

box 10, folder 3

1937-1939

box 10, folder 4

1937-1941

box 10, folder 5-6

1938

box 10, folder 7

1940

box 10, folder 8

1941

box 10, folder 9

1942, 1944

box 11, folder 1-4

1945

box 11, folder 5

1945, 1984

box 11, folder 6

1946

box 11, folder 7

1946, 1982

box 11, folder 8

1946, 1984

box 11, folder 9

1949

box 11, folder 10

1949-1951, 1960-1968, 1984

box 11, folder 11

1977-1983

box 11, folder 12

1978

box 11, folder 13

1981-1982

box 11, folder 14

1982-1983

box 12, folder 1

1983

box 12, folder 2-4

1983-1984

box 12, folder 5

1984-1985

Jeannie Woodbridge (Mrs. J. Arthur Duff) File 1921-1984

Scope and Contents note

Includes documents of a personal nature, arranged chronologically.

box 12, folder 6

Notebook 1921

box 12, folder 7

Correspondence 1960-1984

box 12, folder 8

Driver's license 1939-1982

Passports

box 12, folder 9

American 1918-1961

box 12, folder 9

British 1939

box 12, folder 10-13

Memoirs undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes original drafts and notes.

box 12, folder 14-15

Photocopy of the book History of the American Field Service in France, 1914-1917, printed by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York 1920

Woodbridge family documents

box 13, folder 1

General 1917-1984

box 13, folder 2

Woodbridge Record, privately printed at New Haven, Connecticut 1883

box 13, folder 3

Memorial service, conducted in Palo Alto, California 1984 March 20

Photographs 1905-1977

Scope and Contents note

Prints depicting scenes and people from China, Canada, Africa, and many places of the United States, arranged chronologically. Includes prints documenting Duff family members. Also includes negatives.

box 13, folder 4-5

Kuling pictures undated

box 13, folder 6

Portrait undated

box 13, folder 7

Views of China undated

box 13, folder 8

Duff family photo 1905

box 13, folder 9-11

Jeannie Duff collection of family photographs 1906-1934

box 13, folder 12

Kiukiang-Kuling area with comments 1920s

box 13, folder 13

Kiukiang-Kuling area, photo album 1923-1939

box 13, folder 14-15

Various photos with notes to accompany pictures of China, and Duff family in China 1926-1927

box 13, folder 15

Photographs of top Chinese Army generals 1926-1942

box 13, folder 16

Pictures of China with comments 1926-1943

box 14, folder 1

Album of pictures depicting African and Chinese everyday life 1932-1939

box 14, folder 2

Pictures of China with explanatory notes 1934-1938

box 14, folder 3

Family photos, China 1936-1937

box 14, folder 4

Cairo, Egypt 1942

box 14, folder 5

Chang-tin-chuk (Chief of the Kwantung Bureau and Commissioner of the Commission on Overseas Affairs) and J. Arthur Duff in South China 1943

box 14, folder 6

Lum-king-hwen (Lin) and Li-fuk-lum 1943

box 14, folder 7

Picture and map of China giving the location of Taipun Bias Bay north of Hong Kong 1944

box 14, folder 8

Picturesque photos of Duff family in Canada 1946-1977

Scope and Contents note

Includes pictures with Bert Chen.

box 14, folder 9

J. Arthur Duff collection of photographs, photocopies of originals 1900-1951

box 14, folder 10-11

Photograph folders with explanatory notes

box 14, folder 12

Negatives 1910-1943 and undated

Oversize File 1943-1980

Scope and Contents note

Framed images of personal documents, and a group picture, arranged chronologically.

box 15

Certificate of identification issued to J. Arthur Duff, in Chinese, 1 framed image undated

box 15

Certificate of identification #261 issued to Tu-Fu-Yu (J. A. Duff), Special Representative of United States Relief, 1 framed image 1943 June 19

Scope and Contents note

In Chinese with English translation. Includes picture of Yu-Hon-Mon, Commander of the Seventh War Zone.

box 15

Indira Gandhi and J. Arthur Duff with a group of students, New Delhi, 1 framed image 1980 March 3

Scope and Contents note

With inscription from Indira Gandhi.