Preliminary Inventory to the Willys Ruggles Peck papers

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Title: Willys Ruggles Peck papers
Date (inclusive): 1902-1952
Collection Number: 53005
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 7 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 envelope (5.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Diary and other writings, correspondence, memoranda, biography, and clippings, relating to Chinese foreign relations, domestic politics in China, and the Japanese occupation in Bangkok, Thailand, during World War II.
Creator: Peck, Willys Ruggles, 1882-1952
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

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Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1953

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Willys Ruggles Peck Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Scope and Content of the Collection

The Willys Ruggles Peck papers include correspondence and writings related to the life and career of Willys Peck in China as American Consul General in Nanking. Included are many family letters, but also letters between Peck and fellow diplomats, including John V.A. MacMurray, Stanley Hornbeck, and Nelson T. Johnson, spanning a time period basically from 1900 to the end of World War II.
Includes a report and photo album by American Vice Consul Lincoln C. Reynolds (Peck's son-in-law) in Nanking on his trip to the Sino-Japanese war front, March 12-15, 1932.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
China -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- China
Diplomats -- United States
China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1949
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- East Asia
World War, 1939-1945 -- Thailand
Thailand -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- Thailand
United States. Department of State

box 1

Notebook containing informal observations made by Willys R. Peck, while Consul General and Counselor of the Legation at Nanking, China in the 1930's

box 1

Typescript of a biography of Willys R. Peck, co-authored by the surviving "Peck children," Willys, Llewellyn, and Mary Peck Read

box 1

Original draft copies, with corrections, of the biography of W. R. Peck

box 1

One typewritten letter between the Peck relatives concerning Willys Peck's biography, 1952 August 1

box 1

One handwritten letter from one of the Peck relatives to another (mother to daughter), Peking, 1952 January 4

 

INCREMENT - April 1978

box 2

Diary of events in the American Legation, Bangkok, Thailand, 1941 December 8 - 1942 August 19

box 2

Printed material

box 2

Newspaper clippings, 1940-1945

box 2

Maps of China and the Philippine Islands

box 3

File of material on Tsingtao, China, 1917-1919

box 3

Handwritten manuscript entitled "Life of a Prisoner at the Present Time" (former Civil Commissioner M. G. R. Gunther), 1916 July 26

box 3

Handwritten manuscript entitled "Wives of Prisoners," ca. 1916

box 3

News Bulletin, Tsingtao, 1914 September 20

box 3

Newspaper clipping from Peking and Tientsin Times, 1913 May 3

box 3

Correspondence, 1926-1943

box 3

Miscellaneous memoranda, newspaper clippings, copies of speeches, notes, correspondence, etc., 1911-1943

box 3

Chinese language materials (phrase book, flash cards, note cards, anagram game, etc.)

box 4

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1937-1938

envelope A

Photographs. 1 print of T.K. Chang, William L. Montgomery, Willys R. Peck in San Francisco, California.

 

2019 Incremental Materials

box 5

Correspondence, notes, clippings 1902-1918

Scope and Contents

Includes family correspondence and material related to the Jehol trip and Indochina-Tsingtao
box 6

Correspondence 1918-1931

Scope and Contents

Includes family correspondence and material related to the transfer to Washington, State Department, and Berkeley
box 7

Correspondence, clippings, photographs, lists 1931-1942

Scope and Contents

Includes material related to Nanking, Miami, Chungking, Marjory Mills, Chungking, and Bangkok
box 8

Correspondence, notes, writings 1906-1950

Scope and Contents

Includes material related to Bangkok, Washington, Cairo "Mena" Conference, retirement, Tsingtau, and LCR's "A Trip to the Sino-Japanese War Front, March 12-15, 1932"
box 9

Photograph album 1932

Scope and Contents

Includes material related to LCR's "A Trip to the Sino-Japanese War Front, March 12-15, 1932"