Guide to the Hu Shih Papers at Cornell University,
1910-1963.

Collection Number: 41-5-2578

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Hu Shih papers at Cornell University, 1910-1963.
Collection Number:
41-5-2578
Creator:
Shih Hu, 1891-1962.
Forms of Material:
Microfilm of correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, news clippings, and other materials.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
This collection of materials was created to bring together and preserve the documentation that now exists on Hu Shih (Cornell University Class of 1914), in the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives of the Cornell University Library.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

This collection of materials was created to bring together and preserve the documentation that now exists on Hu Shih (Cornell University Class of 1914), in the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives of the Cornell University Library. Beginning with the original Hu Shih Collection (#41-5-219), we added his correspondence with Woodford Patterson (6-2-2168) and other friends from his Cornell years, and parts of the Deane W. Malott Papers (3-6-65), the Lincoln Patterson Scrapbooks (#37-6-334), the Cosmopolitan Club Records (#37-4-145), the Alumni Office Records (#41-2-877), and several other items collected individually over the years.
Newspaper clippings were photocopied before filming and articles judged easily accessible, such as those in Asia, were not filmed.
The appendices of The Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, vol. XXXIV, pt. 2; Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, 1963, "In Memory of the Late Dr. Hu Shih (1891-1962)" are bibliographies of Hu Shih's writings in Chinese and western languages and of his poetry and unpublished manuscripts in Chinese. They should be consulted for a complete listing of his work.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Hu, Shih, 1891-1962.
Malott, Deane W. (Deane Waldo), 1898-
Patterson, Lincoln E.
Patterson, Woodford, 1870-1948.
Cornell University--Students.
Cornell University--Alumni and alumnae.
Cornell University. Office of Alumni Affairs.
Cosmopolitan Club (Cornell University).
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Hu Shih papers at Cornell University, #41-5-2578. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Series I. Biographical material including photographs of Hu Shih and and his wife, Tung-Sher Kiang (June 1913), 28 pieces.
Series II. Correspondence including a letter from his mother to Mrs. Patterson, 20 pieces.
Series III. Manuscript poems by Hu Shih, in English, 3 pieces.
Series IV. "Ezra Cornell" by Hu Shih, four editions in Chinese, 7 pieces.
Series V. Other writings by Hu Shih
Jan. 1912
"A Republic for China"
 Reel
Feb. 1913
"The Ideal Missionary"
 Reel
June 10, 1913
""Cornell Welcomes the Delegates to the Ninth Conference of the Eastern Section"
 Reel
June 1914
"Marriage Customs in China"
 Reel
Jan. 19, 1915
"The Philosophy of Browning and Confucianism"
 Reel
1915
Forward to The Tenth Anniversary Cornell Cosmopolitan Club Calendar
 Reel
Jan. 14, 1916
"Analysis of the Monarchical Restoration in China"
 Reel
June 1916
"Is There a Substitute for Force in International Relations?"
 Reel
June 10, 1940
"Intellectual Preparedness"
 Reel
Nov. 15, 1940
"The Place of the Alumni Organization in the History of Universities"
 Reel
Mar. 16, 1942
Speech before the Economic Club of New York
 Reel
Mar. 22, 1942
Broadcast of Friends in the United Nations
 Reel
Series VI. Writings about Hu Shih
Jan. 1917
"The New Literary Movement in China" (mss. copy)
 Reel
Dec. 26, 1919
Brief sketch for Cornell Alumni News
 Reel
June 11, 1939
"A Scholar Pleads for China"
 Reel
June 17, 1939
Copy of Citation
 Reel
May 22, 1941
"The Influence of the Canoe on the Chinese Literary Revolution"
 Reel
June 1941
"Dr. Hu Shih to be Sixty-third Commencement Speaker"
 Reel
Dec. 15, 1941
"Ambassador Hu Shih"
 Reel
Aug. 1942
"At the Chinese Embassy"
 Reel
Dec. 1942
"China's Gentleman and Scholar"
 Reel
Mar. 1, 1946
Messenger Lectures Program
 Reel
Dec. 22, 1947
"Young Sage"
 Reel
Jan. 19, 1953
"Bright Feather"
 Reel
Mar.-Apr. 1962
"A Tribute to Dr. Hu Shih"
 Reel
ca. 1962
"Hu Shih, Incurable Optimist"
 Reel
n.d.
"Biography of Dr. Hu Shih"
 Reel
Series VII. Newspaper Clippings, 87 pieces.
Series VIII. The Hu Shih Memorial Scholarship Fund, 13 pieces.
Series IX. Miscellany, 8 pieces.