William Reginald Wheeler papers, 1927-1957.
Collection Number: 4284
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
William Reginald Wheeler papers, 1927-1957.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4284
Abstract:
Personal correspondence, 1927-1957; documentation on agricultural work in China, 1927;
athletics, 1933; Chinese women, 1935; foreign missionaries in China, 1934-1935; observations
and eyewitness accounts by missionaries and teachers at Nanking ("The Nanking Incident
of March 24-25, 1927").
Creator:
Wheeler, W. Reginald (William Reginald), 1889-1963.
Quanitities:
.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
American missionary and army officer.
Personal correspondence, 1927-1957; documentation on agricultural work in China, 1927;
athletics, 1933; Chinese women, 1935; foreign missionaries in China, 1934-1935; observations
and eyewitness accounts by missionaries and teachers at Nanking ("The Nanking Incident
of March 24-25, 1927"), including the murder of John E. Williams, a missionary serving
in Nanking who was also vice president of the University of Nanking; China Information
Service, 1932, 1937-1938; Yale in China reports, 1947-1949; Ginling College and the
University of Nanking; North China and Peking, 1934-1936; suffering of the Chinese
people during the civil war in China, 1927-1936; the Japanese invasion of Manchuria
in 1931; Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuo-mintang government; extracts from the diary of
an American surgeon, Dr. Robert Wilson in Nanking, 1937-1938, and the atrocities he
saw perpetrated by Japanese soldiers on the Chinese civilian population; the murders
of the missionaries John and Elisabeth Stam.
Prominent people named in the collection include H.H. Kung, Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek,
Mayling Soong (Madame Chiang Kai-shek), C.T. (Cheng-ting) Wang, John Foster Dulles,
Winston S. Churchill, Mao Tse-tung, John Leighton Stuart, Douglas MacArthur, Harry
S. Truman, Albert Coady Wedemeyer, Joseph W. Stillwell, and Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
William Reginald Wheeler papers, #4284. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975.
Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-
Wang, Cheng-t\'ing, 1882-1961.
Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959.
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976.
MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964.
Stilwell, Joseph Warren, d1883-1946.
Stuart, John Leighton, 1876-1962.
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
Wedemeyer, Albert C. (Albert Coady), 1896-1989.
Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew, 1883-1953.
Williams, John E.
Wilson, Robert.
Yale-in-China
Jinling da xue
China Information Service
Zhongguo guo min dang
Places:
China -- Politics and government.
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949 -- Personal narratives.
China -- History -- 20th century.
Subjects:
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.
Education -- China.
Communism -- China.
Atrocities -- China.
Chinese -- Missions.
Missions -- China -- Educational work.
Missions -- China -- Agricultural work.
Missionaries -- China.
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Agricultural Work in China,
|
1927 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
A trip to Japan, taken by professor Searle Bates in
|
1936, 1938. |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Rev. Arthur J. Brown,
|
1946. |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Letters to and from Chiang Kai-Shek and Madam Chiang,
|
1935-1949. |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Reports on Chiang Kai-Shek,
|
1938. |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
An Interview with Ching-wei Wang,
|
July, 1937. |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Athletics in China,
|
1933. |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
China Information Service; Articles, reprints
|
1932, 1937-1938. |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
China institute in America, Inc.
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Chinese Delegation to the United Nations,
|
1945, 1951-1952. |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
A handwriteen Chinese letter to W.R. Wheeler re the political situation in China,
|
Sept. 11, 1950. |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Chinese women,
|
1935. |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Chinese Refugees from Communism by R.W. Wheeler,
|
Feb. 1955. |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
"Christian Strategy in an Era of Revolution," by Dr. David H.C. Read,
|
June 2, 1957. |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Letters to Winston S. Churchill,
|
1951. |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Letters and Articles for the Crisis Decade, Edited by W.R. Wheeler.
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Committee to Defend America by Aiding Anti-Communist China,
|
1949-1952. |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Letters to and from John Foster Dulles,
|
1949-1952. |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Foreign missionaries in China,
|
1934-1935. |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Ginling College (University of Nanking),
|
1927-1928. |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Ginling College (University of Nanking),
|
1933-1938. |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation & History,
|
1946, 1954-1955. |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Hangchow, "The City of Heaven,"
|
1935. |
| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Articles by Hu Shih,
|
1951. |
| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
"Our trip to Kuling," written by one of W.R. Wheeler's children,
|
June, 1933. |
| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
"40th Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic of China,"
|
Oct. 10, 1911-1951. |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
"An Oriental Arlington" (article re Nanking burial grounds), by W.R. Wheeler
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Eyewitness accounts by missionaries and teachers at Nanking,
|
March 23-24, 1927. |
| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
"Impressions of China after Thirteen Years," by W. R. Wheeler (printed from "The Chinese
Recorder"),
|
Oct. 1933. |
| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Incidents and observations from Nanking,
|
1934-1949. |
| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
University of Nanking Hospital (extracts from a diary kept by Dr. Robert Wilson, an
American doctor on the staff of the Universtity of Nanking Hospital),
|
1937-1938. |
| Box 1 | Folder 32 |
Nanking Incident of
|
March 24-25, 1927. |
| Box 1 | Folder 33 |
North China and Peiping,
|
1934-1936. |
| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Miscellaneous Items and Clippings,
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
"Peace and Security." Address delivered before Chaplains Association of the Army,
|
May 17, 1938. |
| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Photographs.
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Letters to Rev. P.F. Price, D.D.,
|
1926-1928. |
| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Correspondence and reports re Ambassador John Leighton Stuart.
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Address by T.F. Tsiang,
|
May 24, 1948. |
| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
"Two Temples in Nanking."
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 41 |
United States Policy toward China,
|
1948-1955. |
| Box 1 | Folder 42 |
An account of Cheting Thomas Wang (Chinese ambassador to America), by W.R. Wheeler.
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Letters to W.R. Wheeler,
|
1927, 1938, 1947-1950. |
| Box 1 | Folder 44 |
Letters from W.R. Wheeler,
|
1929-1957. |
| Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Book reviews of John E. Willaims of Nanking, by W.R. Wheeler.
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Account of Dr. Williams murder at Nanking, by W.R. Wheeler.
|
Mar. 24, 1927. |
| Box 1 | Folder 47 |
Tributes to John and Elisabeth Stam, Missionary martyrs,
|
1934-1935. |
| Box 1 | Folder 48 |
Eulogy for Frederick J. Tooker, M.D. by W.R. Wheeler.
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 49 |
Yale in China Reports,
|
1947-1950. |
| Box 1 | Folder 50 |
Yenching University News,
|
1950. |