Glass (C. Frank) papers

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Table of contents

Correspondence 1921-1987

Arrangement note

Arranged alphabetically. Third-party letters are entered under name of writer.

box 1, folder 1

Chang, Ke 1987

box 1, folder 2

De Wet, Madge (sister of Frank Glass) 1954-1987

box 1, folder 3

Glass, Grace Simons (wife of Frank Glass) 1942

box 1, folder 4

Grunfeld, A. Tom 1984-1986

box 1, folder 5

International Secretariat for the Fourth International 1934-1936

Scope and Contents note

Compilation of transcriptions of letters and excerpts from letters by Glass and others

box 1, folder 6

Isaacs, Harold R. 1985

box 1, folder 7

Library of Social History undated

box 1, folder 8

Powell, John B. 1944

Prohme, Rayna

Scope and Contents note

Letters from Rayna Prohme to her sister Grace Simons and to her first and second husbands, Samson Raphaelson and William Prohme.

box 1, folder 9

1921-1925 and undated

box 1, folder 10

1927 (en route to and in Moscow)

box 1, folder 11

Prohme, William (second husband of Rayna Prohme) 1927-1935 and undated

Scope and Contents note

Letters from Prohme to Grace Simons and her first husband Wilbur Burton, and to Helen Freeland and Vincent Sheean

box 1, folder 12

Shanghai Times, 1936

box 1, folder 13

Sheean, Vincent 1927

Scope and Contents note

Letters from Sheean in Moscow to Helen Freeland and Samson Raphaelson re the death of Rayna Prohme

box 1, folder 14

Sinclair, Louis 1985-1987

box 1, folder 15

Strong, Anna Louise 1927

Scope and Contents note

Letters from Strong in Moscow to Samson Raphaelson and to the mother of Rayna Prohme re her death

box 1, folder 16

Tass News Agency 1932

box 1, folder 17

United States. War Department 1944

box 1, folder 18

Wang, Fanxi 1985-1987

Speeches and writings 1932-1962

Scope and Contents note

Speeches and writings by C. Frank Glass, arranged chronologically

box 1, folder 19

"What I Saw in the Shanghai War," Johannesburg Sunday Times 1932 May 22

Scope and Contents note

Written under the pseudonym A South African. Printed copy.

box 1, folder 20

"The War Lords Go 'Left,'" New Masses 1934 January 16

Scope and Contents note

Printed copy

box 1, folder 21

"The End of the Chinese Soviets," New International 1938 January

Scope and Contents note

Written under the pseudonym Li Fu-ren. Printed copy

box 1, folder 22

"After the Fall of Wuhan," New International 1939 January

Scope and Contents note

Written under the pseudonym Li Fu-ren. Printed copy

box 1, folder 23

"Lessons and Perspectives of the Sino-Japanese War," Fourth International 1941 February

Scope and Contents note

Written under the psuedonym Li Fu-ren. Printed copy

box 1, folder 24

"Chen Tu-hsiu: Chinese Revolutionist," Fourth International 1942 August

Scope and Contents note

Written under the pseudonym Li Fu-ren. Printed copy

box 1, folder 25

"Japan Faces the Abyss," Fourth International 1944 February-April

Scope and Contents note

Three-part series written under the pseudonym Li Fu-ren. Printed copy

box 1, folder 26

"Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary Teacher of the Colonial Peoples," Fourth International 1944 August

box 1, folder 27

"Imperialist Program for the Orient," Fourth International 1945 June

Scope and Contents note

Written under the pseudonym Li Fu-ren. Printed copy

box 1, folder 28

"War Guilt in the Pacific: A Political Analysis of the Pearl Harbor Reports," Fourth International 1945 October

Scope and Contents note

Written under the pseudonym Li Fu-ren. Printed copy

box 1, folder 29

"China After World War II," Fourth International 1946 July

Scope and Contents note

Written under the pseudonym Li Fu-ren. Printed copy

box 1, folder 30

Vigilante Terror in Fontana: The Tragic Story of O'Day H. Short and His Family 1946

Scope and Contents note

Pamphlet re black victims of racial attack in Fontana, California, published under the authorship of Myra Tanner Weiss, but ghostwritten for her by Glass. Printed copy

box 1, folder 31

"The Kuomintang Faces Its Doom: Civil War in China," Fourth International 1949 February

Scope and Contents note

Written under the pseudonym Li Fu-ren. Printed copy

box 1, folder 32

"China: A World Power," Fourth International 1951 January-February

Scope and Contents note

Written under the pseudonym Li Fu-ren. Printed copy

box 1, folder 33

Our China Policy: An Open Letter to All the Members of the Socialist Workers Party 1962 October 14

Scope and Contents note

Written under the psudonym John Liang. Typescript

box 1, folder 34

Sykee, the Wonk undated

Scope and Contents note

Typescript

Subject File 1913-1985

Arrangement note

Arranged alphabetically by topic

China

box 2, folder 1

Shanghai French Concession police reports (photocopies) on Glass, Grace Simons Burton (later Glass), Alexander Buchman and others 1935-1938

Scope and Contents note

Includes English translations

box 2, folder 2

Shanghai Municipal Police Special Branch reports (photocopies) on Glass, Wilbur Burton, Harold Isaacs, William and Rayna Prohme, Richard Sorge and others 1926-1933

box 2, folder 3

United States Department of State reports (photocopies) on Glass, Wilbur Burton and others 1933-1937

box 2, folder 4

Clippings 1927-1932

box 2, folder 5

Miscellany. Calling cards, letter of recommendation, notes, and Chinese document 1926-1936

box 2, folder 6

Prohme, Rayna. Transcript of death certificate, "Rayna Simons Prohme: A Report on the Last Months of Her Life" by William Prohme (typescript), "Rayna: Letters from the Chinese Revolution" by Arthur J. Knodel (typescript), and clippings and other printed matter 1913-1982

box 2, folder 7

Raphaelson, Samson (first husband of Rayna Prohme). Printed memoir by Raphaelson 1981

box 2, folder 8

South Africa. Will of Gertrude Emily Glass (mother of Frank Glass), letters of recommendation, certificates and receipts, catalog of bookstore operated by Glass in Johannesburg, and printed matter 1920-1930

box 2, folder 9

United States. Immigration visa documents, union membership cards, clippings re Simons family, and death certificate of Grace Simons Glass 1929-1985

box 2, folder 10

Miscellany

Audiovisual File 1900s-1940s

Scope and Contents note

Photographs and postcards

box 3, folder 10

Audiovisual File 1900s-1940s

box 3, folder 1

Photographs of individuals. Those depicted include Glass, Grace Simons Glass, Rayna Prohme, Tillman Durdin, Randall Gould and Harold Isaacs

box 3, folder 2

Photographs of Simons family members

box 3, folder 3

Photographs of Wilbur Burton (first husband of Grace Simons)

box 3, folder 4

Postcards of scenes in South Africa

box 3, folder 5

Photographs of scenes in China

box 3, folder 6

Negatives

box 3, folder 7

Photocopies of printed reproductions of photographs. Those depicted include Glass, Grace Simons Glass, Rayna Prohme, Wilbur Burton and John Reed

box 3, folder 8

Glass plate of scene in China

Collection Contents

Correspondence

Speeches and writings

Subject File

China

Audiovisual File