Guide to the Ursula Griswold Bingham Papers

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The Bancroft Library

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Title: Ursula Griswold Bingham papers

Creator: Bingham, Ursula Griswold, 1908-1996

Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2000/42 cz

Physical Description: 23.5 linear feet (6 boxes, 17 cartons, 1 oversize box, and 3 volumes)

Date (inclusive): 1882-1998

Abstract: The Ursula Griswold Bingham Papers, 1882-1998, chronicles a woman's life from her beginnings in New England society in 1908 through her death in California in 1998. Spanning almost the whole of the 20th Century, the papers include correspondence with family and friends, diaries, travel files covering trips to China and Japan in the turbulent 1930's, and files relating to her volunteer work with the Pacific School of Religion and the Young Women's Christian Associations (YWCA).

Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Language of Material: English .

Access

Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Information

The Ursula Griswold Bingham Papers were given to The Bancroft Library by Evelyn Bingham Goodman on April 25, 2000.

Biographical Sketch

Ursula Griswold Bingham, born June 28 1908 in Greenwich, Connecticut, was the descendent of three governors of Connecticut. In 1928, she married Woodbridge Bingham, son of Hiram Bingham, a Governor and Senator from Connecticut. The couple settled in Berkeley, California where her husband became a Professor of Far Eastern History and the founder of the East Asiatic Institute at the University of California. Ursula accompanied Woodbridge on a number of trips to the Far and Middle East, living for two years in China and Japan before World War II.

Mrs. Bingham served on the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Associations (YWCA) for two decades and for 35 years as a Trustee for the Pacific School of Religion.

Preferred Citation

Ursula Griswold Bingham papers. BANC MSS 2000/42 cz, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Related Collections

Title: Ursula Griswold Bingham pictorial collection,

Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 2000.071.

Title: A lady's life : New England, Berkeley, China an oral history,

Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 89/84 c.

Title: Woodbridge Bingham papers,

Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 87/114 cz

Title: Woodbridge Bingham photograph collections,

Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1991.048--PIC, BANC PIC 1987.054--B, BANC PIC 1988.045

Scope and Content Note

The Ursula Griswold Bingham Papers, 1882-1998, chronicles a woman's life from her beginnings in New England society in 1908 through her death in California in 1998. Spanning almost the whole of the 20th Century, the papers include correspondence with Ursula's daughters Anne, Clarissa, Evelyn and Marian, other family members and friends. Also included are diaries, travel files covering trips to China and Japan in the turbulent 1930's, and files relating to her volunteer work with the Pacific School of Religion and the Young Women's Christian Associations (YWCA).

Materials Cataloged Separately

Photographs have been transferred to Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.
Maps have been transferred to the Map Room.

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

Travelers -- Asia

Travelers -- Iran

Family -- History -- 20th century.

Bingham, Hiram, 1875-1956

Bingham family

Bingham, Ursula Griswold, 1908-1996

Bingham, Woodbridge

Pacific School of Religion (Berkeley, Calif.)

Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A.

Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National Board.

Griswold family

Correspondence, 1882-1997

Physical Description: Boxes 1-5; Cartons 1-7, Oversize box, folder 1, Box 7 (Restricted)

Scope and Contents

Contains letters, greeting cards sometimes with photographs and other attached material sent either to or from Ursula Bingham. Also includes a series of letters between Ursula's grandparents, John and Adela Berry Sloane, 1882-1886 and some correspondence between other family members.

Arrangement

Divided into two subseries: Family and Personal. Family Correspondence arranged hierarchally by family relationship then chronologically by birth. Personal Correspondence arranged alphabetically. Personal correspondence may also contain letters from family members.

Family 1882-1997

box 1