Register of the Price family papers
Finding aid prepared by Jessica Lemieux
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Title: Price family papers
Date (inclusive): 1793-2004 (bulk 1856-2004)
Collection Number: 82061
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English, German and Malagasy
Physical Description:
17 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box
(8.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The Price family papers are comprised of correspondence, writings, diaries, orders, memoranda, genealogical material, printed
matter, notes, photographs, and memorabilia, documenting several generations of the Price family. Due to the diverse careers
of the family and their residence in different countries, the collection provides an international account of events spanning
from Victorian England to the late 20th century United States. Material relates to missionary work in Madagascar, 1875-1882;
German prisoners of war in Siberia during World War I; the Russian Revolution; social conditions in China; Allied secret service
and radio propaganda activities in World War II; and London during the Blitz.
Creator:
Price family
Creator:
Price, Charles T. (Charles Thomas)
Creator:
Price, Hereward Thimbleby, 1880-1964
Creator:
Price, Arnold Hereward, 1912-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
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Use
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1982.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Price family papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical/Historical Note
Charles Thomas Price (1847-1933) was educated at Cheshunt College, Cambridge. He was ordained as a Congregational minister
on January 25, 1875, and married Mary Anne (Polly) Thimbleby on February 28. The couple sailed for Madagascar on March 25,
1875, where Charles Price served as a missionary for six years, and where his sons Egbert and Hereward were born. He was widowed
and remarried in 1901 to Annie Beatrice Hill. After returning to England in 1882, he ministered to several congregations including:
Lenham in Kent (1883-1890), Buckingham (1890-1901), Ross-on-Wye (1901-1910), and East Grinstead (1910-1914). His last congregation
was at Reigate in Surrey (1916-1925), where he died in 1933.
Hereward Thimbleby Price was born in Madagascar in 1880. He studied at Oxford, where he received his B.A. and M.A. and worked
on the Oxford English Dictionary. He moved to Germany in 1904, where he taught English at the Universities of Kiel and Bonn,
and studied under Bülbring for his Ph.D. While in Bonn he met Elisabeth (Liese) Prym (1884-1971), who became his wife in 1911.
Their son Arnold was born in 1912. Drafted into the German army in 1915, Hereward Price was captured on the eastern front
by Russia and sent to a prisoner of war camp in Siberia. After his escape, he traveled across Russia to China, where he worked
briefly at the Anglo-Chinese College of Tientsin before returning to his family in England via Japan and Canada. Hereward
moved to the United States and became a professor of English at the University of Michigan in 1929. He became a distinguished
scholar of Shakespeare, and died in 1964.
Egbert Thimbleby Price (Bret) was the son of Charles, brother of Hereward. He was born in June of 1876. He was educated at
the Eltham School and Silcontes School in Wakefield. He began working at the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society in 1892, transferred
to Barclay's Bank in 1895, and worked for a succession of banks and businesses until 1923. During this period he traveled
widely, spending time in Berlin and South America. From 1923-1925 he lived in London, then returned to the business world
until 1936 by buying a partnership in Sedgwick and Co. of Colombo. After his return to England, he worked in publications
for the Institute of Sociology (1936-1938), as Editor of the Digest of Charities (1938-1940), at the Censor in the Foreign
Office (1940-1946), and at the Post Office Savings Department (1946-1949). He died July 5, 1949.
Arnold Hereward Price was born in Bonn, Germany, on July 1, 1912. He came to the United States after finishing high school
in Germany in 1933. Joining his parents in Ann Arbor, he became a specialist in Modern European History at the University
of Michigan, receiving his A.B. in 1935, his M.A. in 1936. He married Alice Price in 1938, and from 1939 to 1941 acted as
assistant supervisor of the University's archaeological laboratory in Detroit. After the lab shut down, he worked for the
department of English as a research assistant on the Early Modern English Proverb Dictionary (1941-1942), and received his
Ph.D. in 1942. Arnold Price then moved to Washington D.C., where he worked for the Library of Congress, specializing in Central
Europe. In 1943, he left the Library of Congress and began his service with the Army, in the Office of Strategic Services,
which lasted until 1946. At the conclusion of World War II, Arnold Price transferred to the Department of State until 1960.
He returned to the Library of Congress from 1960 to 1979 as an area specialist for Central Europe, then performed bibliographic
work for the American Historical Association until 1991. In addition to his professional duties, Arnold Price also lectured
at the University of New Mexico (1947-1948) and American University (1948, 1959), and was section editor of the American Historical
Review from 1961 through the 1980s. He was divorced from Alice in 1970, remarried Elizabeth Beitz, was widowed in 1986, and
remarried again in 1991 to Dana Dinkins.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Price family papers are comprised of correspondence, writings, diaries, orders, memoranda, genealogical material, printed
matter, notes, photographs, and memorabilia, documenting several generations of the Price family. Due to the diverse careers
of the family and their residence in different countries, the collection provides an international account of events spanning
from Victorian England to the late 20th century United States. Material relates to missionary work in Madagascar, 1875-1882;
German prisoners of war in Siberia during World War I; the Russian Revolution; social conditions in China; Allied secret service
and radio propaganda activities in World War II; and London during the Blitz.
The collection is arranged into series by family member. The first series documents the life of Charles T. Price: his studies,
missionary work, return to England, and retirement. It also contains a small amount of correspondence dated during World War
I concerning his son Hereward. The second series depicts Hereward Price's service in the German army during World War I, his
sojourn in a Russian POW camp, and his subsequent travels through Siberia and China on his way home. The Egbert Price series
contains correspondence with his brother Hereward and his sister Dorothea (children of Charles T. Price), describing conditions
in London during World War II. The fourth series encompasses Arnold Price's work during World War II with the Office of Strategic
Services, the State Department, his research interests, and his efforts to compile genealogical information about the Price
and Prym families. The photographs series contains material relating to all of the family members, including photographs of
the Price family, their friends, travels, and the mission in Madagascar.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into five series: Charles T. Price papers, 1856-1989; Hereward T. Price papers, 1900-1999; Egbert
T. Price papers, 1917-1950; Arnold H. Price papers, 1793-2004; and Photographs, 1860-2001.
Related Materials
Malagasy subject collection, 1902-1998. Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Carl Bartram photograph collection, 1944-1995. Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Marvin R. Edwards papers, 1942-2004. Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Imprisonment in Siberia, ca. 1920. Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Kreisverband Jena records, 1917-1976. Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Shtab photographs, 1916. Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Joyce N. Laxalt album, 1914-1917. Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Hereward Thimbleby Price papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Siberia (Russia) -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
China -- Social conditions
United States -- Foreign relations
Prisoners of war
World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia
World War, 1939-1945 -- Propaganda
Propaganda, American
Secret service -- United States
World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons
Missionaries
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service
Missions -- Madagascar
United States. Department of State
Germany. Heer
United States. Office of Strategic Services
Charles T. Price papers
1831-1989. [bulk 1856-1933]
Scope and Contents note
Includes diary of Charles Price's missionary work in Madagascar, correspondence, notes from his college days in Cheshunt College
at Cambridge, published material, Sunday school medals, a Malagasy spindle and charm to ward against the evil eye. The Charles
Price series primarily documents his studies, missionary work, and retirement; it also contains a small amount of correspondence
dated during World War I concerning his son Hereward. Arranged by document type.
box 1, folder 1
Cheshunt College notebook
1874 June 9
box 1, folder 3
Correspondence - Cheshunt College
1870-1874
box 1, folder 4-5
Correspondence - Madagascar
1875-1881
box 1, folder 7-11
Correspondence - Reigate
1922-1933
box 1, folder 12
Correspondence regarding leaving Madagascar
1932
box 1, folder 13-16
Correspondence to Hereward
1915-1933
box 2, folder 1
Correspondence and notes on publication of diary
1988
box 2, folder 2-3
Diary of Mr. C.T.P.
1875-1877
box 2, folder 4
Jubilee at Buckingham
1907
box 2, folder 5
List of places preached
1881-1883
box 2, folder 6
Notes on typescript of diary
1933
box 2, folder 7
Prelude in A by Rinck
undated
Published material
1871-1989
box 2, folder 8
Antananarivo Annual
1875, 1886
box 2, folder 9
Missionary to the Malagasy: The Madagascar Diary of the Rev. Charles T. Price, 1875-1877, edited by Arnold H. Price. New York: Peter Lang Inc.
1989
box 2, folder 10
North-East Madagascar: A Narrative of a Missionary Tour, by Reverend J. A. Houlder. Antananarivo: London Missionary Society Press
1877
box 2, folder 11
Ny Soratra Masina. London: British and Foreign Bible Society
1871
Scope and Contents note
Translation of the Bible into Malagasy
box 2, folder 12
South-East Madagascar: Being Notes of a Journey through the Tanala, Taimoro, and Taisaka Countries, in June and July, 1876,
by James Sibree, Jr. Antananarivo: Abraham Kingdon
1876
box 2, folder 13
Ten Years' Review of Mission Work in Madagascar, 1880-1890. Antananarivo: London Missionary Society
1890
box 3, folder 1
Teny Soa. Antananarivo: London Missionary Society
1882
Scope and Contents note
In Malagasy.
box 3, folder 2
Tiona Ela Sy Vao, by Reverend J. Richardson and Reverend C. T. Price. Antananarivo: London Missionary Society
1879
Scope and Contents note
In Malagasy.
box 3, folder 3
Vatsim-Panahin' Ny Mpiantafika. Paris: Société des Missions Evangéliques de Paris
1917
box 8
Sunday School medals
1831-1866
box 8
Cartes-de-visite photographs of Cheshunt College friends
circa 1874
box 8
Malagasy spindle
circa 1880
box 8
Charm to ward off the evil eye
circa 1880
Hereward T. Price papers
1900-1999.
Scope and Contents note
Contains correspondence, postcard books depicting his travels, clippings, articles, and published material. Records Hereward
Price's service in the German army during World War I, his sojourn in a Russian POW camp, and his subsequent travels through
Siberia and China on his way home. Includes a substantial amount of correspondence with his wife (Liese Price) and other family
members, showing their efforts to locate and assist him after his capture. Arranged by document type. The correspondence is
further arranged by name.
Correspondence
1900-1949.
Scope and Contents note
Arranged by correspondent's last name
box 3, folder 4
Entschedé, Matilda
1915-1919
box 3, folder 5
Entschedé, Matilda to Charles T. Price
1915-1916
box 3, folder 6
Farquharson, Dorothea Price to Hereward Price
1916-1933
box 3, folder 7-11
Farquharson, Dorothea Price
1914-1917
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence among Dorothea (Dodo), Charles, Liese, and Hereward Price. Concerns aiding Hereward while he is abroad
and repatriating him. Collected and annotated by Dorothea.
box 4, folder 1-10
Farquharson, Dorothea Price
1914-1917
box 5, folder 1-4
Farquharson, Dorothea Price
1914-1917
box 5, folder 5
Farquharson, Dorothea Price, extracts from Hereward's letters
1917-1918
box 5, folder 6
Price, Hereward to Arnold
1916-1919
box 5, folder 7-9
Price, Hereward to Charles
1900-1933
box 5, folder 10-11
Price, Hereward to Liese
1915-1916
box 6, folder 1
Price, Hereward to Liese
1917
box 6, folder 2
Price, Hereward, postcards
1917
box 6, folder 9
New English Dictionary correspondence
1918-1949
box 6, folder 10-12
Other correspondents
1914-1932
box 7, folder 1
Testimonial correspondence
1903-1917
box 7, folder 3
Diary of the War
1914-1919
box 7, folder 4
Hereward Price and Liese Price, as told to their grandchildren on the occasion of their Golden Wedding
1961, 1999
box 7, folder 5
Oxford documents
1900-1909
box 7, folder 7
Ration cards
1919
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 7, folder 8
Travel documents
1904-1919
box 7, folder 10
University of Bonn - Certificates of study
1905-1907.
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 8
War memorabilia
undated.
Scope and Contents note
Includes bone medal and Afrikakorps armband
Published material
1919-1950.
Scope and Contents note
In chronological order
box 7, folder 13
Tipy Zabaikal'ia, and
Vidy Krugobaikal'ia, postcard sets
undated.
Scope and Contents note
In Russian
box 7, folder 14
Stozh M. E. Irkutsk do pervago gubernatora, essay
1916
Scope and Contents note
In Russian
box 7, folder 15
Tovarishch, calendar/planner for 1917/1918
Scope and Contents note
In Russian
box 7, folder 16
The Cornhill Magazine
1919 November
box 7, folder 18
Erinnerungsblätter deutscher Regimenter, 2 Kurhessisches Infanterie - Regiment Nr. 82
1922
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 7, folder 19
The Dream by H.G. Wells and
The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
1926
box 9, folder 1
Economic Dictionary by Dr. Hereward T. Price
1926
Scope and Contents note
In English and German
box 9, folder 2
Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review
1940, 1945
box 9, folder 3
Emory University Quarterly
1950 June
Egbert T. Price papers
1917-1950.
Scope and Contents note
Includes correspondence written by Egbert (Bret) Price, primarily to his brother Hereward and his sister Dorothea Price Farquharson.
Describes conditions in London during World War II. Arranged by correspondent.
box 9, folder 4-10
Correspondence to Dorothea
1917-1950
box 9, folder 11
Correspondence to Hereward
1920-1949
Arnold H. Price papers
1793-2004.
Scope and Contents note
Consists of correspondence, notes, reports, clippings, and printed material illustrating Arnold Price's work during World
War II with the Office of Strategic Services, the State Department, his research interests, and his efforts to compile genealogical
information about the Price and Prym families. Arranged in five subseries: Genealogical material, 1793-1999; Government work
files, 1942-1979; Published material and writings, 1935-2002; Correspondence, 1919-2003; and Subject files, 1934-2004.
box 9
Genealogical material
1793-1999.
Scope and Contents note
In alphabetical order
box 10, folder 1-2
Alexander Alexeiev-Gigh
1992-1999
box 10, folder 5-6
Collected materials and notes, 1793
1880-2002.
Scope and Contents note
Includes 5 livres, 10 sous, and 15 sols notes dating from the French Revolution
box 10, folder 8
Free Hollow to Forest Home by Liese Price Bronfenbrenner
1974
box 10, folder 9
Gemixte Korni: a family history for the descendents of Urie Bronfenbrenner and Liese Price
1978
box 10, folder 10
Publication of Missionary to the Malagasy
1962-1991
box 11, folder 2
University of Michigan correspondence
1992
Government work files
1942-1979.
Scope and Contents note
In chronological order
box 11, folder 3-4
Army/Office of Strategic Services
1942-1947
box 11, folder 5
Army - transcripts of short wave broadcasts
1943
box 11, folder 6
Fort Getty - Eine Einfuehrung in das Amerikanische Schulwesen
undated.
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 11, folder 7
Fort Getty - America from the Inside
undated.
Scope and Contents note
In German and English
box 11, folder 8
Fort Getty -
Kleiner Führer durch Amerika
undated.
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 11, folder 9
Fort Getty - "German History in a New Light" lectures
undated.
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 11, folder 11-13
Lecture Notes - German history
1945
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 12, folder 1
Lecture Notes - democracy and America
1945
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 8
Collier's magazine article regarding teaching German prisoners of war
1946
box 12, folder 2-4
State Department Office of Research and Analysis
1948-1960
box 12, folder 5
Department of State
Bulletin
1949 October 17
box 12, folder 6
The Present Status of the Saar.
Documents and State Papers
1948 October
box 12, folder 7
Die gegenwärtige Lage des Saarlandes
1949
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 12, folder 8
Report on the occupation boundaries of Berlin
1951
box 12, folder 9
Cornerstone laying of Department of State building
1957 January 5
box 12, folder 10
State Department travel report
1959
box 12, folder 11
Poverty rates in West Germany (study for Department of Health, Education and Welfare)
1963
box 12, folder 12
Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress
1965
box 12, folder 13
Library of Congress publications
1968-1979
box 12, folder 14
Library of Congress - Study of Düsseldorf rule of revolution
1969
box 12, folder 15-17
Library of Congress
1968-1984
box 12, folder 18
Library of Congress travel report
1979
box 12
Published material and writings
1935-2002
box 13, folder 1
The Territorial Development of the Zollverein, 1818-70
1935
box 13, folder 2
Zollverein reviews
1945-1951
box 13, folder 3-4
Miscellaneous articles
1949-1987
box 13, folder 5
Reprints on German history
1957-1982
box 13, folder 6
Monatshefte
1959 December.
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 13, folder 8
American Historical Association Reviews
1965-1980
box 13, folder 9
Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte
1969-1974.
Scope and Contents note
In German and English
box 13, folder 10
Role of the Germanic warrior clubs in the historical process
1974
box 13, folder 11
Miscellanea Mediaevalia
1980
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 13, folder 12
Central European History,
1981 September
box 13, folder 14
Articles on libraries
1984-2001
box 13, folder 15
The Germanic Warrior Clubs by Arnold H. Price
1994
box 14, folder 1
The Germanic Warrior Clubs - addenda
1998-2001
box 14, folder 2
The Germanic Warrior Clubs - notes
1996-1998
box 14, folder 3
The Germanic Warrior Clubs - reprints
1964-2001
box 14, folder 4-5
The Germanic Warrior Clubs - reviews
1995-1997
box 14, folder 6
Mitteilungen der Kieler Gelehrtenschule
1996
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 14, folder 7
Complaint against
Encyclopedia Britannica
1996-1998
box 14, folder 8-9
Swiss-American Historical Society Review
1997-2000
box 14, folder 10
Reprints by Frank Siegmund
2000
box 14, folder 11
American Historical Association
Perspectives
2000 September
box 14, folder 12-13
My Twentieth Century,
2000-2002
box 15, folder 8
Correspondence from Dana
1991
Subject files
1934-2004.
Scope and Contents note
Arranged in alphabetical order
box 15, folder 9
Association for the Bibliography of History
1979
box 15, folder 11
Bibliography on Zollverein, undated.
In German
box 15, folder 12
Bookplate by William Beitz
undated
box 15, folder 13
Boundaries of Germany during World War II
undated
box 16, folder 1
Boundaries of greater Germany
1984
box 16, folder 2
Boundaries of greater Germany - Maps
1944
box 16, folder 3
Boundaries of greater Germany - News digest
undated
box 16, folder 4
Boundaries of greater Germany - Notes
1962-1979
box 16, folder 5
Boundaries of greater Germany - Publications
1944-1974
box 16, folder 6
Boundaries of greater Germany - Stuhlpfarrer, Karl. Die Operationszonen "Alpenvorland" und "Adriatisches Küstenland." Dissertation,
Universität Wien
1967
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 16, folder 8
Destruction of Hamburg records
1996
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 16, folder 9
Early Germanic society
1969-2002
box 16, folder 11
German plans for Eupen, Malmedy, and Moresnet
1940 May.
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 16, folder 12
Germanic realities and projections
undated
box 17, folder 1
Historical bibliography and librarianship
1972-1991
box 17, folder 2
Hoof Prints and Foot Prints in the Sands of Time, Describes work of the University of Michigan Archaeological Laboratory. Includes photograph
undated.
box 17, folder 3
Kieler Gelehrtenschule
1994-1997
box 17, folder 4
Chronik des Kieler Wandervogels, 1926-1929
1996
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 17, folder 5
Kieler Wandervogel und die Hohburg zwischen 1921 und 1933
1996.
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 17, folder 6-7
Verein zur Erhaltung der Hohburg - Kieler Wandervogel, 1926-1997.
Scope and Contents note
In German, includes photographs
box 17, folder 9
Miscellaneous quotes
1934-1991
box 17, folder 10
Miscellaneous studies on German problems
1968, undated
box 17, folder 12
Netherlands and Belgium
1940-1971.
Scope and Contents note
In French
box 17, folder 19
Waldo in OSS: a memoir
undated
box 17, folder 21
References submitted to publisher
undated
box 17, folder 22
Report of the Tax Committee of the Prussian State Council of 1817
1943
box 18, folder 1
Role of the Germanic warrior club in the historical process
1974
box 18, folder 2
Roman history at the University of New Mexico
undated
box 18, folder 3
Serb documents on July crisis
(Serbiens Aussenpolitik 1908-1918)
1945
Scope and Contents note
In German
box 18, folder 5
Thesis editing questions
1941
box 18, folder 6
University of Michigan Convocation and Commencement
1935-1942
box 18, folder 7
Western European holdings in the Indiana University library
undated
Photographs
1860-2001.
Scope and Contents note
Comprised of photographic prints and negatives depicting members of the Price family, friends, and the house and mission in
Madagascar. Arranged in chronological order.
box 8
Prym family
undated.
Scope and Contents note
Includes photograph of Prym family and photograph of their house in Bonn.
box 18, folder 9
Charles Price
undated.
Scope and Contents note
Includes images of Price family members, mission in Madagascar, and the Murray family.
box 18, folder 10
Hereward Price
1860-1919.
Scope and Contents note
Includes images of Hereward in the army, Siberia, Ernestine Prym, Liese Prym Price, and her home during the war
box 18, folder 11
Alexander Alexeiev-Gigh
1912-1972.
Scope and Contents note
Includes images of Alexander Alexeiev-Gigh and Irkutsk in Siberia
box 18, folder 12-13
Kieler Wandervogel
1918-1933.
Scope and Contents note
Depicts camping expeditions
box 18, folder 14
Book photographs
1918-1968
box 18, folder 15
OSS and State Department
circa 1943